Jordan W. Smoller, MD, ScD

Dr. Smoller is Director of the Psychiatric Genetics Program in Mood and Anxiety Disorders at Massachusetts General Hospital and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School in Boston. He is also a founding faculty member of the MGH Mood and Anxiety Disorders Institute and on the faculty of the MGH Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit and the MGH Center for Human Genetics Research.

Dr. Smoller earned his undergraduate degree at Harvard University and his medical degree at Havard Medical School. After completing residency training in psychiatry at McLean Hospital, Dr. Smoller received both a masters and doctoral degree in psychiatric epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health. He was also a postdoctoral fellow in the NIMH Training Program in Psychiatric Genetics.

The focus of Dr. Smoller's research interests has been the identification of genetic determinants of mood and anxiety disorders, including bipolar disorder, major depression, and panic and phobic anxiety disorders. Dr. Smoller and colleagues have also been studying how advances in genetics may impact clinical psychiatry. He is an author of more than 55 articles, book chapters and reviews and the recipient of numerous awards including a Pfizer Scholars Award for New Faculty and a Young Investigator Award from the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression. He is also a prinicipal investigator on NIH funded studies of the genetics of anxious temperament and the genetics of bipolar disorder.