The American Psychiatric Association has elected David Rosenberg, M.D., a Distinguished Fellow of the Washington, D.C.-based organization.
He will receive the honor at the 2018 Convocation of Distinguished Fellows to be held during the APA annual meeting May 7 in New York.
Dr. Rosenberg, professor and chair of the Wayne State University School of Medicine's Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, will join an elite group of psychiatrists with the honorary distinction who continue to make significant contributions to the field of psychiatry.
"The unique environment and infrastructure at Wayne State University has greatly facilitated our team being able make these contributions that are now being translated into treatment development trials of novel therapeutics in childhood onset neuropsychiatric disorders," he said. "Wayne State has provided the ideal environment for many of the discoveries we have made here, including our discovery that glutamate is critically involved in obsessive compulsive disorder."
Dr. Rosenberg also serves as the chief of Child Psychiatry and Psychology for the WSU School of Medicine and director of Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatric Research at Children's Hospital of Michigan. He is the director of the Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Clinical Research Program and the Child and Adolescent Research Division, as well as medical director for Behavioral Health Research and Development for Children's Hospital of Michigan. He also is the Miriam L. Hamburger Endowed Chair of Child Psychiatry.
"Some research can only be done here, as Wayne State University and the Children's Hospital of Michigan have one of the only pediatric centers with both PET and high-field MRI scanning capability in a pediatric center," he said. "The unwavering commitment of President M. Roy Wilson; Provost Keith Whitfield, Ph.D.; Dean Jack D. Sobel, M.D.; Vice President of Research Stephen Lanier, Ph.D., and many others helps ensure that pioneering research at Wayne State University not only continues but thrives. This facilitates the recruitment of superb and talented faculty and trainees here at Wayne State."
He has been a member of the APA for more than 20 years. He received his medical degree from the University of Michigan in 1988, followed by an internship and residency in general psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic. He completed a fellowship in Child Psychiatry as well as a National Institute of Mental Health research fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's Department of Psychiatry, respectively.
A strongly funded and widely published researcher, Dr. Rosenberg is often sought out by the national media as an expert on issues of child psychiatry.
The leading psychiatric organization in the world, APA is an organization of 37,000 psychiatrists working to ensure humane care and effective treatment for persons with mental illness and substance use disorders.