Mark Hyman Rapaport, MD
Chairman, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences
Mark Hyman Rapaport, MD is Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences at Cedars-Sinai. Dr. Rapaport holds the Polier Endowed Chair in Schizophrenia and Related Disorders and is also Vice Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Professor of Psychiatry at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Before coming to Cedars-Sinai, he served as Director of the Mental Health Outpatient Clinical Research Center in the Department of Psychiatry at University of California, San Diego (UCSD).
Dr. Rapaport has received peer-reviewed grant funding from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), National Center for Complimentary and Alternative Medicine, The Stanley Medical Research Institute, the Veterans Affairs Research Board and the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD) Foundation. His research interests are focused on psychopharmacology, and he has investigated the biologic genesis of anxiety disorders, bipolar disorder, depression and immunity abnormalities in schizophrenia. Dr. Rapaport has served as a consultant to more than 20 pharmaceutical companies to help develop promising new drug therapies, and he has trained and mentored students, physicians and researchers in the field of psychopharmacology. He was previously first Chair of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Clinical Trials Network's Data Safety Monitoring Board and Chair of its Special Review Committee. He has served on NIH and NIMH Review Committees.
A board-certified psychiatrist, Dr. Rapaport has written over 160 articles for such peer-reviewed publications as American Journal of Psychiatry, Biological Psychiatry, Journal of Clinical Psychiatry and Neuropsychopharmacology. He currently serves as Co-Editor and Chief of FOCUS: The Journal of Lifelong Learning in Psychiatry, published by American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc. and the American Psychiatric Association. Dr. Rapaport is a member of the American College of Psychiatrists, American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology, Anxiety Disorders Association of America, the Psychiatric Research Society and the Collegium International Neuropsychopharmacology (CINP). He is a distinguished fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, the CINP, and the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology.
Dr. Rapaport received his bachelor's degree from Revelle College at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and his medical degree from UCSD School of Medicine. He completed an internship in internal medicine at Long Beach Veterans Administration and University of California, Irvine Medical Center and a psychiatry residency at UCSD. He also completed a research fellowship at UCSD's Department of Psychiatry and a clinical fellowship at the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Maryland, where he later served as a guest researcher.
