Edward S Friedman, MD, received his Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. Upon graduation, he joined the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry and the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic (WPIC) of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Currently, he is the Director of the Mood Disorders Treatment and Research Program at WPIC.
Professor Ian M Anderson is a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Manchester and an Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist at Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust. He studied medicine at Cambridge University and University College Hospital Medical School, going on to training posts in general medicine and neurosurgery before training in psychiatry in Oxford. He spent 3 years as a Medical Research Council Training Fellow and obtained his MD on the investigation of serotonin function in depression and in the action of antidepressant drugs using neuroendocrine challenge tests.
