Brian Kirkpatrick, MD, MSPH
Biography
Dr. Kirkpatrick graduated from the University of Texas Medical School at Houston. At the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, he completed a psychiatry residency, the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar Program, a Master of Science in Public Health in epidemiology, and a fellowship in neuropharmacology.
Dr. Kirkpatrick has focused on schizophrenia and related disorders. He co-chaired the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)-sponsored Consensus Development Conference on Negative Symptoms. He has been funded by NIMH, the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation, and the Scottish Rite Foundation. He was associate editor of Clinical Schizophrenia and Related Psychoses and is on the editorial board of Schizophrenia Bulletin. He joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Department of Psychiatry in 2022.