Kenneth Kendler
Professor and Eminent Scholar of Psychiatry
Virginia Commonwealth University
Dr. Kendler received his medical and psychiatric training at Stanford and Yale University, respectively. Since 1983, he has been engaged in studies of the genetics of psychiatric and substance use disorders, including schizophrenia, major depression, alcoholism, smoking and nicotine dependence. He has utilized methods ranging from family studies, to large-sample population-based twin studies to molecular genetic studies aimed at identifying the genomic location of specific genes that influence the vulnerability to schizophrenia, alcoholism and nicotine dependence. Data collection for these studies have been completed in New Zealand, Virginia, Ireland, Northern Ireland and Sweden. He has published over 440 reviewed journals, has received a number of national and international awards for his work and serves on several Editorial Boards and is Editor of Psychological Medicine. Since 1996, he has served as Director of the Virginia Institute of Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics.
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