Dan J. Stein

Dan Joseph Stein is Professor and Chair of the Dept of Psychiatry and Mental Health at the University of Cape Town,[1] and Director of the South African MRC Unit on Risk & Resilience in Mental Disorders. Stein was the Director of UCT's early Brain and Behaviour Initiative,[2] and is currently Scientific Director of UCT's later Neuroscience Institute.[3]|He has also been a Visiting Professor at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in the United States, and at Aarhus University in Denmark.

Prof. Dan J. Stein giving a public lecture in Sport Science Institute of South Africa, September 4, 2013

Education

Stein did his undergraduate and medical degrees at the University of Cape Town, and his doctorate (in the area of clinical neuroscience) at the University of Stellenbosch. He trained in psychiatry, and completed a post-doctoral fellowship (in the area of psychopharmacology) at Columbia University. His training also includes a doctorate in philosophy.

Interests

Stein is interested in the psychobiology and management of the anxiety, obsessive-compulsive and related, and traumatic and stress disorders. He has also mentored work in other areas that are of particular relevance to South Africa and Africa, including neuroHIV/AIDS and substance use disorders. Stein's work ranges from basic neuroscience, through clinical investigations and trials, and on to epidemiological and public mental health research.[4]

Stein is enthusiastic about the possibility of clinical practice and scientific research that integrates theoretical concepts and empirical data across these different levels. Having worked for many years in South Africa, he is also enthusiastic about establishing integrative approaches to services, training, and research in the context of a low and-middle-income country.[5]

Contributions

Stein chaired the DSM-5 and the ICD-11 workgroups on obsessive-compulsive and related disorders. Both classification systems elected to include a new chapter on these conditions. This decision aimed to improve detection and diagnosis of these commonly overlooked conditions.[6]

Stein has influenced the field by collaboration (across South Africa, Africa, and the world), by mentorship (his mentees have worked on a range of topics relevant to South Africa and Africa, and they occupy leadership posts in a number of areas including addiction psychiatry, child health, liaison psychiatry, neurogenetics, neuroimaging, neuropsychiatry, public mental health, psychopharmacology, and psychotherapy), and by publication (Google h-index > 140, perhaps the highest of any African scientist).[7]

Stein has authored or edited over 40 volumes, including “Cognitive-Affective Neuroscience of Mood and Anxiety Disorders”,[8] and “The Philosophy of Psychopharmacology: Smart Pills, Happy Pills, Pep Pills”. Other volumes include the "Textbook of Anxiety Disorders",[9] and "Textbook of Mood Disorders". For a detailed list, see his author page at Amazon[10]

For a detailed list of publications, see Google Scholar,[4] or ORCID. [11]

Awards

Stein’s work has been continuously funded by extramural grants for more than two decades. He is a recipient of several national and international awards, including the International College of Neuropsychopharmacology's Max Hamilton Memorial Award for his contribution to psychopharmacology, and of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry's Lifetime Achievement Award.[12]

References
  1. "UCT Dept of Psychiatry\accessdate=2019-11-10".
  2. "UCT Brain and Behaviour Initiative". Retrieved 2019-11-10.
  3. ""UCT Neuroscience Institute"". Retrieved 2019-11-10.
  4. "Dan Stein Google Scholar". Retrieved 2013-02-25.
  5. Gillis, L.; Robertson, B. A.; Zabow, T.; Stein, D. J. (2012). "Psychiatry in South Africa". South African Medical Journal = Suid-Afrikaanse Tydskrif vir Geneeskunde. 102 (6): 449–51. PMID 22668933.
  6. Stein, D. J.; Kogan, C. S.; Atmaca, M.; Fineberg, N. A.; Fontenelle, L. F.; Grant, J. E.; Matsunaga, H.; Reddy YCJ; Simpson, H. B.; Thomsen, P. H.; Van Den Heuvel, O. A.; Veale, D.; Woods, D. W.; Reed, G. M. (2016). "OCRDs in ICD-11". Journal of Affective Disorders. 190: 663–674. doi:10.1016/j.jad.2015.10.061. PMID 26590514.
  7. "H-Index".
  8. Stein, Dan J. (2002). Cognitive-Affective Neuroscience of Depression and Anxiety Disorders. London: Taylor & Francis Group. ISBN 1-84184-100-5.
  9. Stein, Dan J.; Hollander, Eric; Rothbaum, Barbara O. (2010). The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Anxiety Disorders, 2nd edition. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Pub. ISBN 978-0-88048-829-7.
  10. "Dan Stein Amazon Author Page". Retrieved 2008-03-24.
  11. "Dan Stein ORCID". Retrieved 2019-11-10.
  12. "World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry Lifetime Achievement Award". Retrieved 2019-11-10.
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