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Brief Biography:
Javier I Escobar M.D., M.Sc.
• Dr. Escobar was born and raised in Colombia, South America and educated at a Jesuit School (San Ignacio de Loyola). He graduated from the Medical School at Universidad de Antioquia, in Medellin, Colombia, before going to study abroad, first in Spain and then immigrating to the United States where he has resided for more than 5 decades.
• He did his psychiatry residency at the University of Minnesota Hospitals, in Minneapolis-St Paul, and completed a Master of Science program in Psychiatry and Medical Genetics in the Graduate School, University of Minnesota. He also did a research fellowship in psychiatric genetics with Leonard Heston MD, also at the University of Minnesota.
• He became an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Minnesota and worked as the research psychiatrist for the NIMH collaborative study on treatment of schizophrenia. He continued his academic career first at the University of Tennessee, as Associate Professor and then at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he became full Professor of Psychiatry. At the University of Connecticut, in Farmington, CT, he was Vice-Chair and Acting Chair of Psychiatry and then moved to Rutgers University-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School as Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry, a position he held for 14 years. Also at Rutgers-RWJMS, Dr. Escobar created the office of global health and became the Associate Dean for Global Health.
• He has always been a clinician, educator and researcher, always based in academic institutions.
• He served as member of the NIMH Director’s Advisory Council, the FDA advisory committee on psychiatric drugs, the APA task force that developed DSM-5, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s advisory committee for the Clinical Scholars Program and several other national and international research and academic work groups.
• For more than four decades, He has actively participated in psychiatric research. This work has included studies on the clinical phenomenology, epidemiology and treatment of psychiatric syndromes, in particular, those presenting primarily with somatic symptoms.
• Starting in the mid-1990s, after joining Rutgers University, he contributed to the development and testing of innovative non-pharmacological interventions to deal with complex somatic-symptom syndromes and was the PI of several NIH-funded grants. These included several RO1 awards, a P20 award (developing center grant) entitled "MUPS in Primary Care Research Center" that focused on the integration of mental health and primary care services in a community, multiethnic population in New Brunswick, NJ. Through this engagement with immigrant populations in the local community, he came to realize that “global is also local” and steered the creation of an Office of Global Health at Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, which he has led for the past 15 years. As part of this, he has developed and nurtured global collaborations in all continents, especially in Latin America.
• He is currently a key member of two international research teams doing state-of-the art research on severe mental disorders (depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia), focusing on special populations of Colombia and Argentina. In this work, he has provided mentorship to South American investigators and has acted as a bridge between US and Latin American collaborators. One of these collaborations in Medellin Colombia, with Dr. Carlos Lopez Jaramillo at the Universidad de Antioquia Medical School, has led to several educational and research collaborations including NIH-funded projects targeting the genetics of chronic, severe, mental disorders jointly with investigators at Universidad de Antioquia, UCLA, UCSF and the University of Pennsylvania.
• Dr. Escobar has contributed to the mentoring and training of new investigators and for almost two decades he was the PI of a very successful NIH-funded research mentoring program for Latino investigators. Currently, he participates in an NIH-Fogarty funded grant to train new investigators in several Andean nations of South America.
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Janet Song,Mauricio Castaño Ramírez,Justin T. Okano,Susan K. Service,Juan de la Hoz,Ana M. Díaz-Zuluaga,Cristian Vargas Upegui, Cristian Gallago,Alejandro Arias, Alexandra Valderrama Sánchez,Terri Teshiba,Chiara Sabatti,
Communications Medicineno. 1 (2024): 1-9
medrxiv(2023)
The American journal of psychiatryno. 7 (2023): 462-464
Juan De la Hoz, Nora Liu, Alejandro Arias Gallo,Cristian Gallego,Mauricio Castano,Susan Service,Javier Escobar,Victor Reus,Carrie Bearden,Carlos Lopez-Jaramillo,Nelson Freimer,Loes Olde Loohuis
medrxiv(2022)
medRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (2022)
J. Song,M. Castano Ramirez,J. Okano,S. Service,J. de la Hoz,A. Diaz-Zuluaga,C. Vargas Upegui, C. Gallago,A. Arias, A. Valderrama Sanchez, T. Teshiba,C. Sabatti,
medRxiv (2022)
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#Papers: 174
#Citation: 11934
H-Index: 51
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