DSM 5 – Fully expalined -Task Force Members

Darrel A. Regier, M.D., M.P.H. Director, APA Division of Research Executive Director, APIRE Vice-Chair, DSM-V Task Force American Psychiatric Association Virginia, USA Email: [email protected] Regier, M.D., M.P.H has served for the past ten years as Executive Director of the American Psychiatric Institute for Research and Education (APIRE), as well as Director, Division of Research at the American Psychiatric Association (APA). A principle responsibility has been to coordinate the maintenance and revision plans for the APA’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual. In 2006, he was named Vice-Chair of the DSM-5 Revision Task Force to work jointly with the Task Force Chair, Dr. David Kupfer. Dr. Regier originally received his medical degree from the Indiana University School of Medicine and completed his medical internship at Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx. After a psychiatry residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)/Harvard Medical School, he completed his research training at the Harvard School of Public Health and a fellowship at MGH. At the completion of his NIMH service, Dr. Regier retired as a Rear Admiral and Assistant Surgeon General in the Commissioned Corps of the United States Public Health Service.Dr. Regier completed 25 years at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), during which time he directed three research divisions in the areas of epidemiology, prevention, clinical research, and health services research. He initiated the development of several areas of research including national surveys of prevalence of mental disorders, mental health service use in primary care and specialty settings, the organization and financing of such services, and international programs on the classification of mental disorders with the World Health Organization. Dr. Regier served as the Scientific Coordinator/Director for four National Advisory Mental Health Council reports to Congress on mental health insurance parity, and was a section editor of the Surgeon’s General’s Report on Mental Health.

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