René Kahn

René Sylvain Kahn (born 1954)[1] is a psychiatrist and the Esther and Joseph Klingenstein Professor and System Chair of Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in the United States, a position he has held since 2017.[2][3][4] He previously served as Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Brain Center Rudolf Magnus at the University Medical Center Utrecht in the Netherlands. Kahn is recognized for his research on the neurobiology of schizophrenia. He served as a former president of the Schizophrenia International Research Society and elected to the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009. He received the Neuropsychopharmacology Award from the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology in 2014.[5][6][7]

René Sylvain Kahn
BornJune 18, 1954
NationalityDutch-born US Citizen
CitizenshipUnited States
EducationUniversity Groningen, University Hospital Utrecht, Academisch Medisch Centrum, Montefiore Hospital, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital
Years active1972–1984 (training); 1985–Present (practice)
Medical career
ProfessionPsychiatrist, researcher, professor
InstitutionsIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
ResearchPsychiatry, schizophrenia

As of 2020, he was principal or co-principal investigator of 36 grants, written 40 books and book chapters and published more than 950 peer-reviewed articles.[1]

Biography

Kahn studied medicine from 1972 to 1979 at the University of Groningen, and then specialized in psychiatry and neurology at the University of Utrecht and the Academic Medical Center, respectively. He is a registered neuropsychologist since 1986. In 1990 he obtained his Ph.D. with professors Henri van Praag and David de Wied as mentors at the University of Utrecht on the thesis Serotonin Receptor Hypersensitivity in Panic Disorder: an Hypothesis.[8][9]

Kahn served in the Royal Netherlands Army as a first lieutenant in 1980 and 1981.[10]

He completed residencies in the Netherlands and then moved to New York City for a research fellowship in biological psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He served as the chief of the psychiatry research unit at the Bronx VA Hospital[11] after completing psychiatry residencies at Mount Sinai Hospital. He moved back to the Netherlands in 1993 to be chair of psychiatry at the University Medical Center. He led the Brain Center Rudolf Magnus[12]—a multi-discipline center for research in fundamental neuroscience, psychiatry, neurology, neurosurgery and rehabilitation medicine—for over 10 years. He returned to Manhattan in 2017 to take his current position (as of 2020) as chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.[3]

Honors and awards

Research

Kahn studies biological causes of psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia and has led numerous consortia examining the brain changes that play a role in schizophrenia.[1] He has coordinated several international trials to optimize the treatment of schizophrenia.

He is known for helping establish proof that schizophrenia debuts with cognitive dysfunction, preceding the onset of the first incidence of psychosis by more than a decade. He and associates further showed that brain volume is one of the most heritable characteristics, paving the way to link brain volumes in health and disease to genetic variation.[1][15][16] 

Publications

Editorial

As of 2020, Kahn is on the editorial board of Schizophrenia Research,[17] European Neuropsychopharmacology, Schizophrenia Bulletin and Early Intervention in Psychosis.[4]

Peer reviewed articles

Kahn authored or co-authored over 990 scientific papers with an H index, Thomson Reuters: 108; cites: > 53,000 and an H index, Google Scholar: 176; cites: > 175,000.[18]

References
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  4. "prof. dr. R.S. (René) Kahn - UMC Utrecht". www.umcutrecht.nl. Retrieved 2020-08-13.
  5. "René S. Kahn, MD, PhD, Appointed Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at Mount Sinai". Mount Sinai Health System. 2016-09-06. Retrieved 2020-02-12.
  6. "Kahn, Prof. dr. R.S. (René)". KNAW. Retrieved 2020-02-12.
  7. "Winner 2014: René Kahn, The Netherlands". European College of Neuropsychopharmacology. Retrieved 2020-02-12.
  8. "Neurotree - René S. Kahn". neurotree.org. Retrieved 2020-08-06.
  9. Kahn, Rene S.; Praag, Herman M. Van (1988). "A serotonin hypothesis of panic disorder". Human Psychopharmacology: Clinical and Experimental. 3 (4): 285–288. doi:10.1002/hup.470030409. ISSN 1099-1077.
  10. Weller, Sharon. "On the Origins of Psychiatric Illness: Schizophrenia as an Example". NYPSI. Retrieved 2020-08-06.
  11. Kahn, René S.; Davidson, Michael (1993-03-01). "Serotonin, dopamine and their interactions in schizophrenia". Psychopharmacology. 112 (1): S1–S4. doi:10.1007/BF02245002. ISSN 1432-2072.
  12. Sønderby, Ida E.; Gústafsson, Ómar; Doan, Nhat Trung; Hibar, Derrek P.; Martin-Brevet, Sandra; Abdellaoui, Abdel; Ames, David; Amunts, Katrin; Andersson, Michael; Armstrong, Nicola J.; Bernard, Manon. "Dose response of the 16p11.2 distal copy number variant on intracranial volume and basal ganglia". Molecular Psychiatry. 25 (3): 584–602. doi:10.1038/s41380-018-0118-1. ISSN 1476-5578.
  13. "Four professors awarded with the title Doctor Honoris Causa". Semmelweis University. 2014-11-17. Retrieved 2020-08-13.
  14. "Fellows Award advisory committee". MQ: Transforming Mental Health. Retrieved 2020-08-15.
  15. Boos, Heleen B. M.; Aleman, André; Cahn, Wiepke; Hulshoff Pol, Hilleke; Kahn, René S. "Brain volumes in relatives of patients with schizophrenia: a meta-analysis". Archives of General Psychiatry. 64 (3): 297–304. doi:10.1001/archpsyc.64.3.297. ISSN 0003-990X. PMID 17339518.
  16. "René Kahn, MD, PhD - MIRECC / CoE". U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Retrieved 17 August 2020. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  17. "About the Editors | npj Schizophrenia". www.nature.com. Retrieved 2020-08-16.
  18. "Rene Kahn - Google Scholar". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2020-08-16.
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