David L. Dunner, MD

Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Director, Center for Anxiety and Depression
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington

David Dunner, MD, attended Washington University School of Medicine and completed his psychiatric training there. He spend two years at the National Institute of Mental Health involved in research studies in bipolar depression. For the next eight years he was at Columbia University/New York State Psychiatric Institute and worked with Dr. Ronald Fieve on studies comparing bipolar and unipolar affective disorders. These studies included clinical descriptive studies, family studies, biological studies, and treatment outcome studies.

Since 1978, Dr. Dunner has been at the University of Washington. He continues his research interests in mood disorders and anxiety disorders with a special focus on psychopharmacological treatment of these conditions and clinical description of bipolar and unipolar affective disorders. He is involved in descriptive studies of mood disorder subtypes, pharmacotherapy of mood disorders, and studies comparing the effects of psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy.

Dr. Dunner is a professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington and Director of the Center for Anxiety and Depression. He has co-authored over 250 publications and edited a recent book, Current Psychiatric Therapy II, published by WB Saunders, Company. Dr. Dunner is a past-president of the Society of Biological Psychiatry, the American Psychopathological Association, and the Psychiatric Research Society. He is on the editorial board of several scientific journals and is the Editor-in-Chief of Comprehensive Psychiatry. He is the co-editor of Psychiatric Clinics of North America: Annual of Drug Therapy.