CLINICAL HANDBOOK OF SCHIZOPHRENIA

ABOUT THE EDITORSKim T. Mueser, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist and a Professor in the Departmentsof Psychiatry and Community and Family Medicine at the Dartmouth MedicalSchool in Hanover, New Hampshire. He was on the faculty of the Psychiatry Departmentat the Medical College of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia until 1994, when he moved toDartmouth Medical School and joined the Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center. Dr.Mueser’s clinical and research interests include psychiatric rehabilitation for persons withsevere mental illnesses, intervention for co-occurring psychiatric and substance use disorders,and the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder. His research has been supportedby the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), the National Institute on DrugAbuse, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, and the NationalAlliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD). He has served on numerouseditorial boards, has published many journal articles and book chapters, and hascoauthored 10 books. In 2007 his book The Complete Family Guide to Schizophrenia(with Susan Gingerich) received the National Alliance on Mental Illness NYC Metro KenBook Award for outstanding contributions to better understanding of mental illness.Dilip V. Jeste, MD, is the Estelle and Edgar Levi Chair in Aging, Director of the Sam andRose Stein Institute for Research on Aging, and Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry andNeurosciences, University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and VA San Diego HealthcareSystem. He is also the Director of the NIMH-funded Advanced Center for Interventionsand Services Research at UCSD focusing on psychosis in late life, and of the John A.Hartford Center of Excellence in Geriatric Psychiatry. Dr. Jeste was a research fellow, andlater, Chief of the Units on Movement Disorders and Dementias at NIMH before movingto San Diego. He is the Principal Investigator on several research and training grants; haspublished 8 books and over 500 articles in peer-reviewed journals and books; and is theEditor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. He is a member of theInstitute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, and of the National AdvisoryMental Health Council of the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Jeste is a past Presidentof the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry (AAGP) and the West Coast Collegeof Biological Psychiatry, and Founding President of the International College of GeriatricPsychoneuropharmacology. His numerous awards include NIMH’s MERIT Award; theSociety of Biological Psychiatry’s A. E. Bennett Neuropsychiatric Research Award; AAGP’sSenior Investigator Award; the American Psychiatric Association’s Research Award; MostDistinguished Physician Teacher/Researcher Award from the American Association ofPhysicians of Indian Origin; Asian Heritage Award for Excellence in Science, Technology,and Research; American College of Psychiatrists’ Geriatric Research Award; and DistinguishedInvestigator Award from NARSAD.v