Erik Nelson, MD

Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
University of Cincinnati School of Medicine
Cincinnati, Ohio

Erik Nelson, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Assistant Director of the Biological Psychiatry Research Program at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio. He received his BA from Earlham College and his MD from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.

Specializing in the treatment and research of mood disorders (major depression) and biological psychiatry, Dr. Nelson is an active researcher. His recent publications have focused on diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric disorders in sex offenders, bipolar disorder and sex offenders, and psychotic depression. His main research interests include major depression, psychotic depression, bipolar depression and antidepressant-induced sexual dysfunction.

Dr. Nelson is interested in developing new strategies for the treatment of depression, particularly psychotic depression and bipolar depression and is also trying to find effective treatments for sexual dysfunction caused by SSRI antidepressants. Dr. Nelson was the recipient of the NCDEU Young Investigator Award in 2000.