ISSN: 2642-4274
Emeritus professor
Department of Psychiatry and Neurology
Mercer University School of Medicine
United States of America
Dr. Lauterbach received his M.D. from Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC and psychiatry residency training from Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri. He subsequently completed a neurology fellowship in movement disorders and neurodegenerative disease and is ABPN board certified. He has served as Director of Adult and Geriatric Psychiatry and Chair of the Research Committee at Mercer University School of Medicine, and, for the overall university, as Founding Director of the Center for Translational Studies in Neurodegenerative Disease and Chair of the Research Committee. He is currently Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Neurology and is a Fellow of the American Neuropsychiatric Association (ANPA) and Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association (APA). He has served as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, member of the Senior Editorial Board of the American Journal of Neurodegenerative Disease, Chair of the ANPA Committee on Research, member of the ANPA Advisory Committee, Course Director and Symposium Chair at numerous annual courses at the APA and other organizations, Expert Consultant to several practice guidelines, and peer reviewer for over 50 medical journals. His interests have been in psychopharmacology (especially pharmacodynamics and mechanisms of action), neuropsychiatry, and neurodegenerative diseases. His publications have focused on psychopharmacology, pharmacodynamics, and psychiatric conditions in the neurological patient. He has given over 100 invited medical lectures.
