Walker-Ames Lecture Series: Irving Gottesman

Professor Gottesman currently holds an endowed chair in adult psychiatry and is a Senior Fellow in psychology at the University of Minnesota, as well as an emeritus chair in psychology at the University of Virginia. His distinguished career includes plaudits from British, Japanese and American professional associations, including the Joseph Zubin Award for lifetime contributions to psychopathology from the Society for Research in Psychopathology. W. H. Freeman published his award-winning 1991 book, 'Schizophrenia Genesis -- The Origins of Madness,' which has been translated into Japanese and German. His more recent work focuses on psychiatric genetics and genomics. Prof. Gottesman has mentored 35 Ph.D. students, and an annual lecture on behavior and neurogenetics has been endowed in his name at Virginia.