Joachim Hallmayer
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Stanford University
Joachim Hallmayer is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. He received his undergraduate and medical education in Germany at the University of Dusseldorf (1980-82) and the University of Cologne (1982-86), respectively. After completing his doctoral thesis at the Max Planck Institute for Neurological Research in Cologne he became a research fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Luca Cavalli-Sforza in the Department of Genetics at Stanford, which he continued through 1994. Between 1995 and 2001 he was Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Western Australia and Co-Director of the Centre for Clinical Research in Neuropsychiatry. He joined the Stanford Child Division faculty in May 2001 where he became the director of the Molecular Genetics Laboratory. The focus of the research program of Dr. Hallmayer is the genetics of child psychiatric disorders, combining epidemiological and molecular methods. A major goal is to resolve the heterogeneity of clinical phenotypes such as autism into genetically simpler, quantifiable components, thus facilitating the search for susceptibility genes for these disorders.
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