Dan J. Stein
Dan J. Stein | |
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Stein in 2013 | |
| Alma mater | University of Cape Town Columbia University Stellenbosch University |
| Awards | The Max Hamilton Memorial Award. The South African Medical Research Council's Platinum Award. The World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry's Lifetime Achievement Award. |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Psychiatry |
| Institutions | University of Cape Town |
| Doctoral advisor | Eric Hollander Robert Spitzer Jeffrey Young |
Dan Joseph Stein is a South African psychiatrist who is a professor and Chair of the Dept of Psychiatry and Mental Health at the University of Cape Town, 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, and was the inaugural Scientific Director of UCT's later Neuroscience Institute. He has also been a visiting professor at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in the United States, and at Aarhus University in Denmark.