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Dr. Cameron Elected to the National Academy of Medicine

Photo credits: Steve Zylius / UC Irvine

Email Communication from Hal Stern – Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor and Michael J. Stamos – School of Medicine Dean:

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that Cameron Carter, Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine. He is one of 100 new members announced this week.

The academy selected Professor Carter for his fundamental contributions to our understanding of the role of the prefrontal cortex in supporting human higher cognitive functions and his pioneering contributions to characterizing how prefrontal cortical pathology contributes to the clinical features of schizophrenia and other neuropsychiatric disorders.

A renowned psychiatrist and neuroscientist, Professor Carter is recognized for his research bridging basic cognitive and clinical neuroscience, leading to paradigm shifts in mental health research. He conducted some of the first event-related functional MRI studies in the 1990s, introducing an influential network model of the frontal cortex that continues to shape the field today. His progressive use of neuroimaging to examine brain circuitry disruptions has yielded major insights into schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder and autism – helping to improve diagnostic and therapeutic strategies.

Professor Carter has been recognized with a range of honors including the George N. Thompson Award from the Society of Biological Psychiatry and the Patricia Goldman-Rakic Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Cognitive Neuroscience from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation.

UC Irvine now has seven faculty who are members of the National Academy of Medicine, which is one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine and recognizes individuals who have demonstrated outstanding professional achievement and commitment to service.

Please join us in congratulating Professor Carter on this exceptional accomplishment.

Sincerely,

Hal Stern

Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor

Distinguished Professor, Department of Statistics

Michael J. Stamos, M.D., FACS, FASCRS

Dean, School of Medicine

Read more about Dr. Cameron Carter’s accomplishment, click here:

https://medschool.uci.edu/news/uc-irvines-cameron-carter-elected-national-academy-medicine

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