Barry S. Fogel

Barry S. Fogel (born 1952) is an American neuropsychiatrist and behavioral neurologist, medical writer, medical educator and inventor. Dr. Fogel is the senior author of a standard text in neuropsychiatry and medical psychiatry and a co-founder of the American Neuropsychiatric Association and the International Neuropsychiatric Association.

Education and credentials

Dr. Fogel received his M.D. degree in 1976 from the University of San Francisco, School of Medicine. He also holds a masters degree from the MIT Sloan School of Management and a master's degree in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley. Fogel was a resident in neurology in the Harvard-Longwood Psychiatry Residency Program and a resident in psychiatry at Stanford University.^[1] He is certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in neurology and psychiatry and by the United Council for Neurologic Subspecialties in behavioral neurology and neuropsychiatry.

Career

From 1981 to 1996 Fogel served on the faculty of the Brown University School of Medicine, first as the founding director of the program in medical psychiatry at Rhode Island Hospital, and then as the Associate Director of Brown Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research. While at Brown he began a long collaboration with the late Dr. Alan Stoudemire of Emory University School of Medicine, co-editing five volumes on medical psychiatry, culminating in the publication in 1993 of Psychiatric Care of the Medical Patient by Oxford University Press.^[1] That work received many positive reviews and is a “standard reference in medical psychiatry,” addressing “the interface of psychiatry with medicine and surgery.” ^[2] The book's third edition was published in 2015. In 1998 Fogel co-founded the American Neuropsychiatric Association (ANPA) with Randolph B. Schiffer, M.D., and served as its first president.^[3] In 1996 Dr. Fogel co-founded the International Neuropsychiatric Association.^[4] Fogel is currently a clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and a physician at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, where he is affiliated with the Center for Brain/Mind Medicine.^[5] He is a co-founder and principal scientist for PointRight Inc., a healthcare data analytics business focusing on post-acute care,^[6] and co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer for Synchroneuron Inc., a pharmaceutical company developing treatments for movement disorders and post-traumatic stress disorder.^[7][8] He also is an inventor and holds numerous patents involving pharmaceuticals, medical devices and computer software.^[1][6]

Publications

Dr. Fogel's publications on neuropsychiatry include the following:

• Fogel, BS; Greenberg, DB, eds. (2015). Psychiatric Care of the Medical Patient, third edition. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-190-22629-9.
• Schiffer, RB; Rao, SM; Fogel, BS, eds. (2003). Neuropsychiatry: A Comprehensive Textbook, second edition. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins. ISBN 978-0-781-72655-9.
• Fogel, BS; Shellow, R, eds. (1995). Practice Guideline for the Psychiatric Evaluation of Adults. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press Inc.
• Stoudemire, A; Fogel, BS, eds. (1991–1995). Medical-Psychiatric Practice, Volumes 1, 2, and 3. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press Inc. ISBN 978-0-880-48425-1.
• Fogel, BS; Furino, A (1990). Gottlieb, Gary, ed. Mental Health Policy for Older Americans: Protecting Minds at Risk. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press Inc. ISBN 978-0-880-48320-9.

References

Notes

1. "Author Information for Psychiatric Care of the Medical Patient (Third Edition ) by Barry S. Fogel and Donna B. Greenberg". Oxford University Press.
2. Wells, Lloyd (1994). "Book review of Psychiatric Care of the Medical Patient". New England Journal of Medicine 330: 1244–1245.
3. Coffey, CE (1999). "The American Neuropsychiatric Association: Ten years of progress and a future of great promise". Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences 11: 8–18.
4. Miyoshi, K (2010). "Brief history and current status of the International Neuropsychiatric Association". In Miyoshi, K; Morimura, Y; Madea, K. Neuropsychiatric Disorders. Heidelberg: Springer.
5. "Harvard Medical School Faculty Directory".
6. "PointRight, Inc. home page".
7. Weintraub, Arlene (9 February 2012). "Persistence Pays Off for Synchroneuron Founder With $6M Series A". xconomy.com.
8. Fidler, Ben (7 July 2014). "Synchroneuron Nets $20M to Combat Drug-Induced Movement Disorder". xconomy.com.