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Master of Psychiatric
Epidemiology (MPE)
Lee N. Robins, PhD
Faculty Member
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Dr. Robins is Professor Emeritus of Sociology
in Psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis,
Missouri, and the founder of the Master in Psychiatric Epidemiology (MPE)
Program.
Dr. Robins has led national studies on psychiatric epidemiology, and was a
leader in the development of diagnostic criteria for psychiatric
diagnosis. Her studies followed child patients and randomly-selected
schoolchildren into adulthood. These resulted, along with large
epidemiological studies, in the publication of more than 250 papers on
suicide, substance abuse among adolescents and Vietnam War veterans,
alcoholism, and antisocial disorders and behavior in children. Many of
these publications are considered classics in the field. Dr. Robins is
also the author of Deviant Children Grow Up (1966), and the editor of 11
books.
Having received her doctoral degree from Harvard University in 1951, by
1954 Dr. Robins began her career at Washington University as a research
assistant. In 1959, she was promoted to assistant professor, in 1962 to
associate professor, and in 1966 to full professor of sociology in
psychiatry. Since 1991, when she became University Professor of Social
Sciences, she has taught in Arts & Sciences, Social Work and Psychiatry.
In 2001, she became professor emerita.
Dr. Robins has served on the National Advisory Council on Drug Abuse and
on various task panels of the President’s Commission on Mental Health. She
is a member of the World Health Organization’s expert advisory panel on
mental health.
The recipient of the Second Century Award from
Washington University School of Medicine, Dr. Robins is also a member of
the Institute of Medicine and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,
and is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Psychiatrists.
“Now an Emeritus Professor, I do not currently have
an on-going study. I am still writing articles for publication,
consulting, refereeing journal articles and books, writing book reviews,
and serving on several advisory committees for foundations and large
projects. Although I cannot offer an on-going project on which trainees
can work, I would be pleased to meet with trainees and talk with them
about any [of my research interest] topics.”
Dr. Robin’s Research Interests:
1. Antisocial personality, its causes, course and prevention
2. Drug, alcohol and tobacco abuse
3. Validity of psychiatric instruments
4. The WHO Composite International Diagnostic Interview
5. Designing a basic curriculum in research methods for social psychiatry
6. Training international researchers in the administration and analysis
of standardized diagnostic interviews
7. Interviews for child disorders in children as recalled by adults
8. Violence
9. Suicide
10. The effects of disaster on mental health
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Director
Linda B. Cottler, PhD, MPH
Associate Director
Catherine Striley, PhD, MSW, ACSW, MPE
Faculty
Laura Bierut, MD
Kelly Botteron, MD
Kathleen K. Bucholz, PhD, MPE
C. Robert Cloninger, MD
Danielle Dick, PhD
Karen Dodson
Mehmet Dokucu, MD, PhD
Nuri B. Farber, MD
Anne Glowinski, MD, MPE
Julia Grant, PhD
Rick Gruzca, PhD, MPE
Gitry Heydebrand, PhD
Lee Hoffer, PhD, MPE
Barry Hong, PhD
Joan Luby, MD
Michael Lynskey, PhD
Pam Madden, PhD
Rosalind Neuman, PhD
Rumi Price, PhD, MPE
Lee N. Robins, PhD
Norman Sartorius, MD, PhD
Jeffery Scherrer, PhD
Edward Spitznagel, PhD
Bradley Stoner, MD, PhD
Melissa Swallow, MD
Richard Todd, MD, PhD
Richard Wetzel, PhD
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