Dr. Stephen M. Stahl received his undergraduate and medical degrees from
Northwestern University in Chicago, as a member of the Honors Program in Medical Education, and his Ph.D. degree in pharmacology and physiology from the University of Chicago. Dr. Stahl has trained in three specialties: internal medicine at the University of Chicago; neurology at the University of California in San Francisco; and psychiatry at Stanford University. He is board certified in psychiatry.
Dr. Stahl has held faculty positions at Stanford University, the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), the Institute of Psychiatry London, the Institute of Neurology London, and, currently Distinguished Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at the University of California Riverside, Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California San Diego and at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University at Syracuse and Honorary Visiting Senior Fellow at the University of Cambridge (UK). He also directs psychopharmacology services and academic programs for the five facility, 6500 patient California Department of State Hospital System where he has a leadership role in addressing violence and decriminalization of the seriously mentally ill.
Dr. Stahl is an internationally renowned clinician, researcher and teacher in
psychiatry with subspecialty expertise in psychopharmacology. Dr. Stahl has written over 60 textbooks and edited 15 others, including the best-selling and award-winning textbook, Stahl’s Essential Psychopharmacology, now in its fifth edition, and the best-selling and award winning clinical manual, Essential Psychopharmacology Prescriber’s Guide, now in its eighth edition.
Dr. Stahl’s major interests are dedicated to producing and disseminating educational information about diseases and their treatments in psychiatry and neurology, and his work and writings have won him numerous awards in these fields.
