Peter F. Buckley

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Peter F. Buckley
Alma mater University College Dublin
Awards Strecker Award [1]
Scientific career
Fields Psychiatry
Institutions Virginia Commonwealth University,
Medical College of Georgia (Augusta University)
University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Thesis Cerebral morphology and metabolism in schizophrenia: relationship to clinical indices  (1997)

Peter F. Buckley is an American psychiatrist and university administrator who focuses on the neurobiology and treatment of schizophrenia. [2] He received his medical degree from the University College Dublin School of Medicine in Ireland [3] and joined the Medical College of Georgia in 2000 as chair of the Department of Psychiatry and health behavior. [2] During the period of 2010–2017 he served as dean of the college. [2] Then he moved to Virginia Commonwealth University and was appointed dean of the school of medicine in 2017, a role in which he served until 2021. [3] A Scientific Council member of the Brain & Behaviour Research Foundation, [4] Buckley is senior author of a postgraduate textbook of psychiatry and editor-in-chief of Clinical Schizophrenia & Related Psychoses . He has published more than 500 scientific articles. [2] He has served as chancellor of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis, Tennessee since February 1, 2022. [5]

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