Lynn Eleanor DeLisi () is an American psychiatrist known for her research on

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. She is an attending psychiatrist at the

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and a professor of

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. She is the

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of ''

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'' and the president of the

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. She was a co-founder of both the Schizophrenia International Research Society and the

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, and went on to serve as secretary of both organizations. She was one of two founding

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of ''

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'', which she founded with Henry Nasrallah in 1988. She is also the author of the best-selling book ''100 Questions and Answers about Schizophrenia: Painful Minds''. She was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2014.

Education and career

DeLisi earned her

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degree from the

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and her

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from the

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. She worked at the

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in their intramural research program until 1987, when she became a professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She became a professor of psychiatry at the

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and Associate Director of the Center for Advanced Brain Imaging at the

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in 2001. She held both of these positions until 2009, when she began working at the Boston VA and Harvard. In November 2019 she moved to Cambridge Health Alliance and is Attending Psychiatrist on the acute inpatient service of Cambridge Hospital. Her career and life's work is featured in the

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best seller book by

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, ''Hidden Valley Road''.

References

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