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About Our Speakers
Joseph P. McEvoy, MD, is currently the I. Clark Case
Distinguished Chair in Psychotic Disorders at the Medical
College of Georgia, after retiring as Professor Emeritus from
Duke University Medical Center in July of 2013. Dr. McEvoy also
serves as the Director of Public Psychiatry for the Partnership
between the Medical College of Georgia and the Georgia
Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental
Disabilities. His research has focused on the biology and
treatment of severe and persistent mental disorders
(schizophrenia, bipolar disorder). Dr. McEvoy edited the Expert
Consensus Guidelines for the Treatment of Schizophrenia in
1996 and 1999. He served as Co‐Principal Investigator and Project Medical Officer for the
CATIE Schizophrenia trials and for several subsequent trials through the NIMH‐funded
Schizophrenia Trials Network, as well as for the industry‐supported Comparison of
Atypicals for First Episode (CAFÉ) trial. He recently served as Principal Investigator for
the ACLAIMS (A Comparison of Long‐Acting Injected Medications for Schizophrenia)
trial. He is the author of more than 200 scholarly publications, and a Distinguished Life
Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.
Joseph P. McEvoy, MD
Professor of Psychiatry and Health Behavior
Medical College of Georgia
Phone: 919.829.9295
Email:
jmcevoy@gru.edu