John Hettema, MD, PhD

Biography

Dr. Hettema is a professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Texas A&M University Naresh K. Vashisht College of Medicine and an affiliated faculty member at the Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics (VIPBG) at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). As a clinician-scientist, he has participated in patient care, clinical teaching and research activities. Before coming to Texas A&M University in 2019, he directed the VCU Anxiety Disorders Specialty Clinic for 19 years, providing residency training and patient care via the assessment and treatment of all the major anxiety and related disorders. His research efforts focus on the epidemiology, genetics and biology of anxiety and related internalizing disorders. He has extensive experience applying advanced statistical genetic methodology to these questions via analyses conducted in twin, family and population-based samples. His recent projects include conducting meta-analyses of genome-wide association data on anxiety spectrum disorders (ANGST GWAS project, R01MH087646 and PGC-ANX project, R01MH113665), examining the effects of novel candidate genes derived from GWAS on internalizing psychopathology (R01MH039096), and collecting and analyzing endophenotypic measures underlying the development of internalizing disorders in a juvenile twin sample (R01MH098055). His research has been funded by NIH and private foundation grants. He is a founding co-chair of the PGC-ANX Working Group and has active collaborations with anxiety and depression researchers around the world. His publication list includes more than 100 original research articles, reviews and book chapters.

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