A professor in the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine has been elected to the Institute of Medicine, one of the nation’s highest honors in the fields of health and medicine.
David R. Rubinow, MD, Assad Meymandi Distinguished Professor and Chair of Psychiatry, is among the 65 new members.
Rubinow is an internationally recognized expert in the evaluation and treatment of women with mood disorders that occur during periods of hormonal change. He is also the founder of the UNC Center for Women’s Mood Disorders, which recently opened an inpatient unit for women with moderate to severe postpartum depression (PPD). The five-bed Perinatal Psychiatry Inpatient Unit is the first of its kind in the United States.
He came to UNC after a long and distinguished 26-year career at the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Md. There he started as a staff psychiatrist in 1979 and advanced through a series of positions of increasing responsibility, culminating with his becoming the Clinical Director of NIMH in 1987 and the founding chief of the NIMH’s Behavioral Endocrinology Branch in 1996. He held both positions until 2005, when he accepted his current appointment at UNC.
Published Oct. 20, 2011