Theodore Reich | |
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Born | |
Died | December 25, 2003 St. Louis, Missouri, U.S | (aged 65)
Citizenship | United States |
Alma mater | McGill University |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Psychiatric genetics |
Institutions | Washington University in St. Louis |
Theodore Reich (October 14, 1938 – December 25, 2003) was a Canadian-American professor of psychiatry and genetics at the Washington University School of Medicine.[1] Reich is considered one of the founders of modern psychiatric genetics and mostly studied the genetic aspects of mental illness.[2][3][4]
He was a founder and president of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics and received the organisation's Lifetime Achievement Award in 1999.[2]
Reich earned a bachelor's degree in honors physiology in 1959 and completed a medical degree at McGill in 1963.[1]