Israel Liberzon, MD

Biography

Israel Liberzon, MD, is a Professor Psychiatry and Department Head, Department of Psychiatry Texas A&M University Health Systems. He has started his academic career as Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan’, and established the PTSD program at the Ann Arbor VAMC, a program that has grown and remained at the forefront of biological research of PTSD worldwide for 20 years. He progressed in Michigan as an Associate, Full, and then Endowed Professor, also serving as a Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience. There he leads Trauma, Stress, and Anxiety Research Group (TSARG), Psychiatric Affective Neuroimaging Laboratory, VA fMRI research facility, Stress Neurobiology laboratory, and served as the Director of Psychiatry Residency Research Track. In 2018 Dr. Liberzon was recruited as a founding Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, at Texas A&M University. Dr. Liberzon’s primary research interest centers on emotions, stress and stress-related disorders like PTSD, particularly in the regulation and dysregulation of stress response systems. His work integrates cognitive, functional neuroimaging, neuroendocrine and genetic approaches. Under Dr. Liberzon’s leadership, the TSARG had been continuously funded with multiple NIMH RO1 grants, VA Career development and NIH K awards, VA merit awards, Army and DoD grants, and more. He had published over 250 peer-reviewed manuscripts, and has authored and edited several books and book chapters. Dr. Liberzon has also mentored 11 KO1 and VA Career Development awardees and multiple trainees who are holding leading academic positions in first rank institutions around the world.