David Jerome Kupfer (born February 14, 1941) is head of the psychiatry department at the

University of Pittsburgh The University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) is a public state-related research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The university is composed of 17 undergraduate and graduate schools and colleges at its urban Pittsburgh campus, home to the univers ...

and head of the

DSM-5 The ''Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition'' (DSM-5), is the 2013 update to the '' Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders'', the taxonomic and diagnostic tool published by the American Psychiatri ...

planning committee. He was awarded the Joseph Zubin Award in 1999.

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1941 births Living people University of Pittsburgh faculty American psychiatrists Members of the National Academy of Medicine {{US-psychiatrist-stub