Carl Salzman, Brief Biography
I came to the Massachusetts Mental Health Center (MMHC) as a medical student in 1963 and fell in love with the program. During my residency at MMHC from 1964-67, I began psychopharmacology career during my second and third year. After two years at National Institute of Mental Health with the Psychopharmacology Research Branch and then returned to MMHC as a junior faculty member, never to leave.
I have done every clinical job while doing psychopharmacology research and teaching and rose to full Professor at the Harvard Medical School. I have earned lots of awards, have more than 300 publications and written six books.
I have taught throughout Europe, Asia (except Japan), Mexico and Canada as well as throughout the US. My research interests primarily were in Geriatric Psychopharmacology (edited four editions of Clinical Geriatric Psychopharmacology) and benzodiazepines (chaired the APA Task Force on benzodiazepines) and have done much writing and speaking about these medicines.
When in 1996 MMHC and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) joined to form Longwood Psychiatry I became a faculty member at BIDMC although my office is still on the 6th floor of MMHC.
June 1, 2023