Matcheri Keshavan, MD

Biography

Matcheri Keshavan, MD is Stanley Cobb Professor of Psychiatry at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, a position he assumed in April 2008. He is also academic head for the department. Dr. Keshavan received his medical training in Mysore, India (the batch of 1969, graduated at the top of his university in 1975), and his psychiatric training in Bangalore (India), Vienna, London, and Detroit.

 
Dr. Keshavan is closely involved in research in neurobiology of psychosis, especially as it pertains to first episode psychotic disorders. His research has resulted in around 1030 publications to date, including over 850 peer-reviewed papers, 4 books, and 150 other papers,reviews, andbook chapters. His work has been cited 81,627 times, and with a Google Scholar H index of 143, he is among the top 1% of all researchers in his field (per Researchgate).

 
He has received several awards including the Gaskell Gold Medal of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (1985); Nancy Roschke Certificate for Teaching Excellence of the American Psychiatric Association in 1993; Teaching awards at the Departments of Psychiatry in Pittsburgh (1992, 1994, and 2004), Wayne State University (2008) and at Harvard (2011); the Research Scientist Development Award from NIMH (National Institute of Mental Health); the 2013 Gerard Hogarty Award for Research from the University of Pittsburgh; the 2016 Kempf award of the American Psychiatric Association, the 2017 Stanley Dean Award of the American College of Psychiatrists, the 2018 Larry Seidman award of the International Early Psychosis Association, and the 2019 NAMI National Research award, the 2019 research award by the World congress of Biological Psychiatry and the 2020 Karimnagar Research Award and Gold medal, Indian Psychiatric Society. He is a distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association; a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Canada; and a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, UK.

 
Dr. Keshavan is the founding editor-in-chief of the Asian Journal of Psychiatry (Elsevier), a former editor of Schizophrenia Research, and serves on the editorial boards of journals such as Early Intervention in Psychiatry and Biomarkers in Neuropsychiatry. In addition, Dr. Keshavan is often invited to speak at national and international conferences. He holds several funded grants. His main areas of research include the neurodevelopmental basis of schizophrenia, neuroimaging, cognitive remediation, and early intervention. His other interests include psychotherapeutic insights from the Bhagavad Gita. He maintains an active clinical practice. He is also an avid sketcher.