Kornetsky, Conan
Biographical Sketch: Professor of Pharmacology, Boston University School of Medicine. Conan Kornetsky, born February 9, 1926 in Portland, Maine, graduated in 1943 from Portland High School and from the University of Maine, Orono in 1948 and served in the US Army Air Corps in 1944-45. He received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology with a minor […]
Kopin, Irwin
Biographical Sketch: Dr. Irwin J. “Irv” Kopin was the chief of NINDS’s Clinical Neuroscience Branch. He began his NIH career as research assistant in the Laboratory of Clinical Science at NIMH in 1957. Over the next 10 years, he published more than 85 peer-reviewed manuscripts, dealing largely with the disposition and metabolism of catecholamines. After […]
Kocsis, James
Biographical Sketch: Dr. James Kocsis is a professor of psychiatry at Weill Medical College of Cornell University, Attending Psychiatrist at the New Yok-Presbyterian Hospital and Director of the Affective Disorders Research Program at the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic, all located in New York, New York. In addition, Dr. Kocsis is a member of the Adjunct […]
Knoll, Joseph
Biographical Sketch: Joseph Knoll, MD, Emeritus Professor is a Hungarian Professor who synthesized l-deprenyl / selegiline, the first selective MAO-B inhibitor, in his Budapest laboratory in 1961. Dr Knoll has researched its properties for almost half a century. Topical Index: Interview History: Dates: Jan-02 Interviewer: T.Ban Transcript: Papers:
Klett, Jim
Biographical Sketch: Jim Klett, Phd, is on the Monitoring Board of the NIDA Collaborative Cocaine Treatment Study, which is a National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) funded Cooperative Agreement involving four clinical sites, a Coordinating Center, and NIDA staff. Topical Index: Interview History: Dates: Apr-97 Interviewer: L.Hollister Transcript: Papers:
Kleinman, Joel
Dr. Kleinman received his B.S., M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Chicago in 1966, 1973 and 1974, respectively. His graduate studies with A. Heller and P. Hoffmann involved the effects of monoamines on carbohydrate metabolism in the rat brain. Dr. Kleinman did an internship at San Francisco General Hospital and residencies in psychiatry […]
Klein, Rachel
Biographical Sketch: Rachel G. Klein, Ph.D., is the Fascitelli Family Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the NYU School of Medicine and Director of the Anita Saltz Institute for Anxiety and Mood Disorders at the NYU Child Study Center. Dr. Klein has been an active researcher in child psychiatry and was continuously funded by […]
Klein, Donald
Biographical Sketch: Donald Klein, MD D.Sc, is an attending Physician at the New York Presbyterian Hospital and New York State Psychiatric Institute. Research Professor at the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry of the Langone Medical Center at NYU. Research Psychiatrist at Nathan S Kline Institute for Psychiatric Columbia University. Dr. Klein observed that patients […]
Kleber, Herbert
Biographical Sketch: Dr. Kleber has been a pioneer in research and treatment of substance abuse for over 35 years. From 1968 to 1989, he founded and headed the Drug Dependence Unit at Yale University. He then served for 2 ½ years as the Deputy Director for Demand Reduction at the Office of National Drug Control […]
Kety, Seymour S.
Biographical Sketch: Seymour S. Kety, M.D., was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on August 25, 1915. He received his medical training at the University of Pennsylvania. More than any other single individual, he was responsible for modern psychiatry’s emergence as a rigorous and heuristic branch of medicine that is constantly invigorated by the basic sciences. In […]