Barry S. Fogel

Barry S. Fogel
Born	January 23, 1952 San Francisco, California
Occupation	Academic physician
Title	Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Spouse(s)	Xiaoling Jiang, Ph.D.
Academic background
Education	UCSF School of Medicine, MIT Sloan School of Management, UC Berkeley, residencies at Harvard-Longwood (neurology) and Stanford (psychiatry)
Academic work
Discipline	Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Neurology
Institutions	Brigham and Women's Hospital

Barry S. Fogel (born 1952) is an American neuropsychiatrist and behavioral neurologist, medical writer, medical educator and inventor. Dr. Fogel is the senior author of a standard text in neuropsychiatry and medical psychiatry and a founder of the American Neuropsychiatric Association and the International Neuropsychiatric Association.

Early life

Barry S. Fogel was born in San Francisco and grew up in Los Angeles, California. His father Daniel Fogel (d. 1991) was a prominent trial lawyer and personal attorney for Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley; his brother Jeremy Fogel is a Federal Judge and since 2011 Director of the Federal Judicial Center. Dr. Fogel was a mathematical prodigy, starting college at UCLA at age 14, attending Princeton University the following year, and entering the PhD program in mathematics at UC Berkeley at age 16. While working on a dissertation related to the mathematical theory of neural networks he reached a decision to become a clinical neuroscientist.

Education and credentials

Dr. Fogel received his M.D. degree in 1976 from the UCSF School of Medicine. He also holds a masters degree from the MIT Sloan School of Management and M.A. and C.Phil. degrees in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley. Fogel was a resident in neurology in the Harvard-Longwood Neurological Training Program and a resident in psychiatry at Stanford University.^[1] He is certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in neurology and psychiatry and by the United Council for Neurologic Subspecialties in behavioral neurology and neuropsychiatry.

Career

From 1981 to 1996 Fogel served on the faculty of the Brown University School of Medicine, first as the founding director of the program in medical psychiatry at Rhode Island Hospital, and then as the Associate Director of Brown Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research. While at Brown he began a long collaboration with the late Dr. Alan Stoudemire of Emory University School of Medicine, co-editing five volumes on medical psychiatry, culminating in the publication in 1993 of Psychiatric Care of the Medical Patient by Oxford University Press.^[1] That work received many positive reviews and is a “standard reference in medical psychiatry,” addressing “the interface of psychiatry with medicine and surgery.” ^[2] The book's third edition was published in 2015. In 1998 Fogel founded the American Neuropsychiatric Association (ANPA) with Randolph B. Schiffer, M.D., and served as its first president.^[3] In 1996 Dr. Fogel was a founder of the International Neuropsychiatric Association.^[4] Fogel is currently a clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and a physician at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, where he is affiliated with the Center for Brain/Mind Medicine.^[5] He is a founder and principal scientist for PointRight Inc., a healthcare data analytics business focusing on post-acute care,^[6] and a founder and Chief Scientific Officer for Synchroneuron Inc., a pharmaceutical company developing treatments for movement disorders and post-traumatic stress disorder.^[7][8] He also is an inventor and holds numerous patents involving pharmaceuticals, medical devices and computer software.^[1][6]

Publications

Dr. Fogel's publications on neuropsychiatry include the following:

• Fogel, BS; Greenberg, DB, eds. (2015). Psychiatric Care of the Medical Patient, third edition. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-190-22629-9. 
• Schiffer, RB; Rao, SM; Fogel, BS, eds. (2003). Neuropsychiatry: A Comprehensive Textbook, second edition. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins. ISBN 978-0-781-72655-9. 
• Fogel, BS; Shellow, R, eds. (1995). Practice Guideline for the Psychiatric Evaluation of Adults. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press Inc. 
• Stoudemire, A; Fogel, BS, eds. (1991–1995). Medical-Psychiatric Practice, Volumes 1, 2, and 3. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press Inc. ISBN 978-0-880-48425-1. 
• Fogel, BS; Furino, A (1990). Gottlieb, Gary, ed. Mental Health Policy for Older Americans: Protecting Minds at Risk. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press Inc. ISBN 978-0-880-48320-9. 
• Fogel, BS, ed. (1993). State Mental Hospitals and the Elderly: A Task Force Report of the American Psychiatric Association. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association. 

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