Jonathan Brodie, M.D./Ph.D.

Dr. Jonathan Brodie, PhD-MD, is the Marvin Stern Professor of Psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine.  Dr. Brodie received his bachelor of science in chemistry as a Ford Foundation Scholar, as well as his Ph.D. in Physiological Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  He was a National Institute of Health postdoctoral Fellow in Biochemistry at Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation, as well as a tenured Professor of Biochemistry at the School of Medicine at SUNY at Buffalo.  He then received his medical degree and completed his residency in psychiatry at NYU/Bellevue Medical Center.  After completing his residency in 1978, he joined the Medical Center’s faculty. 

Dr. Brodie is a member of the Promotions and Tenure Committee of the NYU School of Medicine, as well as a member of the Executive Advisory Committee of the General Clinical Research Center and the Protocol Review Committee of the Center for Advanced Brain Imaging (CABI) of the Nathan Kline Institute. He is a reviewer for various neuroimaging and psychiatric journals, and serves as an ad hoc member of several NIH review committees.  For 15 years, he was the NYU Director of the Brookhaven National Laboratory/NYUSOM collaboration investigating the use of positron emitters and PET scans in neuroscience and psychiatry.  In addition, Dr. Brodie serves as a psychopharmacology instructor to residents in Psychiatry.  As a clinician, he treats patients in general issues of adult psychiatry including anxiety and depression. Dr. Brodie also has published his research in numerous medical and psychiatric journals.  His research interests include functional neuroimaging of pharmacological activity and the relationship of neural plasticity to the emergence of psychopathology.