Candidate for 2025 President-Elect

Biography

Mark Hyman Rapaport M.D. serves as the CEO of the Huntsman Mental Health Institute at the University of Utah, the William H. and Edna D. Stimson Presidential Endowed Chair, and the Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine at the University of Utah. Prior to moving to Utah, he was the Reunette Harris Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Emory University School of Medicine, the Chief Psychiatric Officer for Emory Healthcare, and a founding Co-Director of the Emory Brain Health Center. He has served as the Chair of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, and Vice Chair of Psychiatry at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He held the Polier Endowed Chair in Schizophrenia Research at Cedars-Sinai.

Dr. Rapaport has dedicated his professional life to focusing on one goal, to make contributions that may leave the world a little better because of his presence. That is the reason he chose to be a physician and to specialize in psychiatry. He pursued an academic career because it allowed him to pursue his professional passions: care of patients, research, teaching, and care for the community. Dr. Rapaport has published over 200 peer-reviewed research papers and has had peer-reviewed research funding since 1992. His work has focused on the interactions between the brain and the immune system as well as clinical psychopharmacology and complementary medicine. He has been a mentor to hundreds of trainees through the New Investigator Program that he started for the NIMH NCDEU meeting which became the ASCP annual meeting. He also co-founded, with Debbie Hales, and is currently the Editor-in-Chief of, the APPI journal "Focus" which is designed to help busy clinicians stay up to date with advances in the field of psychiatry. "Focus" was the first major journal in the field to devote entire issues to LGBTQ+ and underrepresented minority mental health concerns. Dr. Rapaport is chairing a Grand Challenge called "Stop Stigma Together" that has over 300 organizations involved in a decades long movement to eliminate the prejudice, guilt, shame, and lack of parity that our patients and out field face. He also is partnering with the Ad Council on the "Love, Your Mind" campaign to normalize mental health.

Education

• Bachelor of Arts, Revelle College, UC San Diego (1973-1977)
• Doctor of Medicine, UC San Diego School of Medicine (1978-1982)
• Intern, Internal Medicine, Long Beach VA/UCI (1982-1983)
• Resident, Dept. of Psychiatry, UC San Diego (1983-1985)
• Chief Resident, Dept. of Psychiatry, UC San Diego (1985-1986)
• Research Fellow, Dept. of Psychiatry, UC San Diego (1985-1986)
• Research Fellow, Clinical Neuroscience Branch, NIMH (1986-1989)
• Guest Researcher, Clinical Neuroscience Branch, NIMH (1989-1990)

Awards and Honors

• William H. and Edna D. Stimpson Presidential Endowed Chair, University of Utah (2021)
• Distinguished Life Fellow, American Psychiatric Association (2018)
• Fellow, American College of Psychiatrists (2018)
• Visiting Professor, Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK (2017)
• Reunette Harris hair in Psychiatry, Emory University (2011)
• Best Doctors in America (2011)
• Integrative Medicine Award, Prevention Magazine (2011)
• The Global Directory of Who’s Who (Top Doctors) (2010)
• Lifetime Achievement Award, New Clinical Drug Evaluation Unit (2007)
• Visiting Professor, Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai, China (2006)
• Polier Chair in Schizophrenia Research, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (2004)
• Distinguished Fellow, American Psychiatric Association (2004)
• Fellow, Collegium Internationale Neuro-Psychopharmacologicum (2003)
• Teacher of the Year, Department of Psychiatry, UCSD School of Medicine, San Diego, CA (2001)
• Clinician of the Year, San Diego Psychiatric Society (2000)
• Fellow, American Psychiatric Association (2000)
• Visiting Professor, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (2000)
• Distinguished Speaker, Third International Experts Conference on Psychiatry and Immunology, Munich, Germany (1997)
• Visiting Professor, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY (1997)
• Marquis Who's Who (1996)
• Visiting Professor, Dartmouth University, Hanover, NH (1995)
• Visiting Professor, Ludwig-Maximilans-University, Munich, Germany (1994)
• Judd Award for Research Excellence, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, San Diego, CA (1986)
• Cum Laude, B.A., Revelle College, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA (1997)