Dr. Stephen M. Stahl received his undergraduate and medical degrees from Northwestern University and his Ph.D. degree in pharmacology and internal medicine training from the University of Chicago. Dr. Stahl has trained in internal medicine at the University of Chicago, neurology at the University of California in San Francisco and psychiatry at Stanford University. He is board certified in psychiatry.  He has held faculty positions at Stanford University, the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), the Institute of Psychiatry London, the Institute of Neurology London, and currently at the University of California at San Diego (UCSD), the University of California Riverside and the University of Cambridge in the UK. He also directs psychopharmacology services and academic programs for the five facility, 6500 patient California Department of State Hospital System. He is the author of over 600 articles and over 80 books, including the best-selling and award-winning textbook, Stahl’s Essential Psychopharmacology and the best-selling and award-winning clinical manual, Essential Psychopharmacology Prescriber’s Guide. Dr. Stahl has received the Aristotle Gold Medal from Greece, the Sapienza University of Rome award, the British Medical Association’s Book of the Year Award, the A.E. Bennett Award of the Society of Biological Psychiatry, the Distinguished Psychiatrist Award of the American Psychiatric Association (APA), David A Mrazek Memorial Award by the APA, the Nasrallah Award by the American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology, and has received an Honorary Doctorates from both Üsküdar University in Istanbul and the University of Cambridge in the UK.