John H. Coverdale is a New Zealand-born academic

psychiatrist A psychiatrist is a physician who specializes in psychiatry, the branch of medicine devoted to the diagnosis, prevention, study, and treatment of mental disorders. Psychiatrists are physicians and evaluate patients to determine whether their sy ...

, educator and editor. He is currently a full professor of

psychiatry Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of mental disorders. These include various maladaptations related to mood, behaviour, cognition, and perceptions. See glossary of psychiatry. Initial psych ...

behavioral sciences Behavioral sciences explore the cognitive processes within organisms and the behavioral interactions between organisms in the natural world. It involves the systematic analysis and investigation of human and animal behavior through naturalistic o ...

, and

medical ethics Medical ethics is an applied branch of ethics which analyzes the practice of clinical medicine and related scientific research. Medical ethics is based on a set of values that professionals can refer to in the case of any confusion or conflict. T ...

Baylor College of Medicine Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) is a medical school and research center in Houston, Texas, within the Texas Medical Center, the world's largest medical center. BCM is composed of four academic components: the School of Medicine, the Graduate Sc ...

Academic career

After promotion to associate professor at the

University of Auckland , mottoeng = By natural ability and hard work , established = 1883; years ago , endowment = NZD $293 million (31 December 2021) , budget = NZD $1.281 billion (31 December 2021) , chancellor = Cecilia Tarrant , vice_chancellor = Dawn F ...

, Coverdale moved to

in 2000, rising to full professor. He completed an MD from the

University of Otago , image_name = University of Otago Registry Building2.jpg , image_size = , caption = University clock tower , motto = la, Sapere aude , mottoeng = Dare to be wise , established = 1869; 152 years ago , type = Public research collegiate u ...

in 2004, with a thesis entitled '''Family planning, sexually transmitted infections, and ethical challenges in managing decisions about contraception and pregnancy when patients have a major mental disorder.''' He has expertise in

human trafficking Human trafficking is the trade of humans for the purpose of forced labour, sexual slavery, or commercial sexual exploitation for the trafficker or others. This may encompass providing a spouse in the context of forced marriage, or the extrac ...

, and he founded and co-directs the Baylor Anti-Human Trafficking Program. He is an educator and a senior editor of the journals

Academic Medicine Medicine is the science and practice of caring for a patient, managing the diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, treatment, palliation of their injury or disease, and promoting their health. Medicine encompasses a variety of health care practice ...

and Academic Psychiatry.

Selected works

* Coverdale, John, Sarah Turbott, Helen Roberts. "Family planning needs and STD risk behaviors of female psychiatric outpatients."

British Journal of Psychiatry The ''British Journal of Psychiatry'' is a peer-reviewed medical journal covering all branches of psychiatry with a particular emphasis on the clinical aspects of each topic. The journal is owned by the Royal College of Psychiatrists and publis ...

171 (1997): 69–72. * Coverdale, John. "Virtues-based advice for beginning medical students."

Obstetrics and Gynecology Obstetrics and Gynaecology (also spelled as Obstetrics and Gynecology; abbreviated as Obs and Gynae, O&G, OB-GYN and OB/GYN) is the medical specialty that encompasses the two subspecialties of obstetrics (covering pregnancy, childbirth, and t ...

111, no. 2 (2008): 427–430. * Coverdale, John, Laurence McCullough, Frank Chervenak. "The ethics of randomized placebo-controlled trials of antidepressants with pregnant women."

112, no. 6 (2008): 1361–1368. * Coverdale, John, Richard Balon, Laura Roberts. "Teaching sexual history-taking: a systematic review of education programs."

86, no. 12 (2011): 1590–1595. * Coverdale, John, Sara Coverdale, Ray Nairn. “Behind the mugshot grin: uses of madness-talk in reports of Loughner’s mass killing."

Journal of Communication Inquiry ''Journal of Communication Inquiry'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that covers the field of communication. It is edited by graduate students in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Iowa. The editor ...

37, no. 3 (2013): 200–216. * Coverdale, John, Richard Balon, Eugene Beresin, Adam Brenner, Antonio Guerrero, Alan Louie, Laura Roberts. "Climate change: a call to action for the psychiatric profession." Academic Psychiatry 42, no. 3 (2018): 317–323. * McCullough, Laurence, John Coverdale, Frank Chervenak. Professional Ethics in Obstetrics and Gynecology, Cambridge University Press, 2020, . * Coverdale, John, Mollie Gordon, Phuong Nguyen (editors). Human Trafficking: A Treatment Guide for Mental Health Professionals. American Psychiatric Association Press, 2020, .

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