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Philip D. Harvey, PhD is Professor of Psychiatry at Emory University School of Medicine.  He was formerly professor of Psychiatry at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine and Chief Psychologist at Mt. Sinai Hospital. He received his PhD in Clinical Psychology from SUNY at Stony Brook in 1982.  He is the author of over 700 scientific papers and abstracts and he has written over 30 book chapters.  He has given more than 1,300 presentations at scientific conferences and medical education events.  He has edited 5 books and written 4 books on topics of psychological assessment, schizophrenia, and aging.  He is a member of the American Psychological Association, the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, the Collegium Internationale Neuropharmacologium (Fellow) , the Society for Research in Psychopathology (Founding Member), International College of Geriatric Psychoneuropharmacology (Founding Member), the Society for Biological Psychiatry, International Neuropsychological Society,  the Schizophrenia International Research Society (Founding Director), and the International Society for Clinical Trials and Methodology (Founding Member)..

His research has focused for years on cognition and he has written extensively on aging in schizophrenia, functional impairments in the illness, the cognitive effects of typical and atypical antipsychotics, as well as studying the effects of cognitive enhancing agents in various conditions, including schizophrenia, dementia, and traumatic brain injury. He directs a large and successful biennial conference on cognition that is an official satellite of the International Congress on Schizophrenia Research.  The last two meetings of this conference were attended by more than 450 scientists from around the world and this meeting was also an official satellite of the Schizophrenia Winter Workshop. 

He is also active in clinical work and teaching, performing over 1,000 psychological assessments and teaching and supervising undergraduate, predoctoral, and  postdoctoral psychology students and medical students, residents, and fellows for the past 25 years.