Dr. Daniel Weinberger
Daniel R. Weinberger, M.D., is the Director and CEO of the Lieber Institute for Brain Development (LIBD) and a Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology, Neuroscience and Genetic Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is regarded worldwide as one of the preeminent scientists in psychiatry research, having been at the forefront of scientific investigation of schizophrenia and related disorders for a generation. He attended college at the Johns Hopkins University, medical school at the University of Pennsylvania, and did residencies in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and in neurology at George Washington University. He is board-certified in both psychiatry and neurology.
Dr. Weinberger is the recipient of many honors and awards and has also written extensively on the impact of mental illness in our society, health disparities in brain research and the role of the developing brain during adolescence.