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Daniel Mamah, MD, MPE
Current
Position
Assistant Professor in Psychiatry
University Roles
Committee on Admissions, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis (2005- )
Diagnostic Interview Schedule (DIS) Training Faculty (2007- )
Lee Robins Lectureship Committee (2008- )
MPE Steering Committee (2008- )
IRB Review Committee (2010- )
Education and Training
MPE (Master of Psychiatric Epidemiology): Washington University Medical School (2007)
NIMH Postdoctoral Fellowship: Psychiatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Washington University Medical School (2005-2007)
Residency: Psychiatry, Washington University Medical School (2005)
Medical School: Semmelweis University of Medicine, Budapest, Hungary (1998)
High School: Federal Government College, Port Harcourt, Nigeria (1991)
Major Awards
President, Missouri Psychiatric Association (2010-)
NARSAD Sidney J. Baer Jr. Foundation Investigator 2009
Award for Outstanding Leadership, Eastern Missouri Psychiatric Society (2010)
NARSAD Young Investigator Award 2009
President, Eastern Missouri Psychiatric Society (2008-2010)
DSM-V Task Force, American Psychiatric Association: Member (2006- )
Board of Trustees, American Psychiatric Association: Member-in-Training Trustee (2004-2006)
Biophysics Award, Semmelweis University of Medicine, Budapest, Hungary (1993)
Areas of Clinical Interest
Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders, Bipolar Disorders, Autistic Disorders
Areas of Research Interests
1. Structural Neuroimaging and Computational Brain Mapping
2. Basic Pathophysiologic Mechanisms of Psychiatric Disorders
3. Psychiatric Epidemiology
4. Cross-Cultural Psychiatry
Key Publications
Mamah D, Conturo TE, Harms MP, Akbudak E, Wang L,McMichael AR, Gado MH, Barch DM, Csernansky JG. Anterior thalamic radiation integrity in schizophrenia: a diffusion-tensor imaging study. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging 2010(in press) Full Article ->
Mamah D, Wang L, Csernansky JG, Rice JP, Smith M, Barch DM. Neuromorphometry of the hippocampus and amygdala in bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. Bipolar Disorders 2010;12(3):341-3. Full Article ->
Mamah D, Barch DM, Csernansky JG. Neuromorphometric measures as endophenotypes of schizophrenia spectrum disorders. In: Neuropsychiatric Biomarkers, Endophenotypes, and Genes: Promises, Advances and Challenges. Michael S. Ritsner (ed). Springer 2009. Full Article ->
Mamah D, Harms MP, Wang L, Barch D, Thompson P, Kim J, Miller MI, Csernansky JG (2008 Jul 15). Basal ganglia shape abnormalities in the unaffected siblings of schizophrenia patients. Biol Psychiatry. 64(2): 111-20. Full Article ->
Harms MP, Wang L, Mamah D, Barch DM, Thompson PA, Csernansky JG (2007 Dec 12). Thalamic shape abnormalities in individuals with schizophrenia and their nonpsychotic siblings. J Neurosci. 27(50): 13835-42. Full Article ->
Mamah D, Wang L, Barch D, de Erausquin GA, Gado M, Csernansky JG (2007 Jan). Structural analysis of the basal ganglia in schizophrenia. Schizophr Res. 89(1-3): 59-71. Full Article ->
Funded Research Projects
NIMH (PI): Neuromorphometry of Psychosis in Bipolar Disorder
NARSAD (PI): Neuromorphometry of Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders
Private (PI): Characterizing the Schizophrenia Prodrome in Africa