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Mauricio Tohen, MD, DrPH, MBA, is a University Distinguished Professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of New Mexico Health Science Center, Albuquerque NM. From 2009 to 2013 he was a Professor of Psychiatry and The Krus Endowed Chair in Psychiatry at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. Dr. Tohen received his medical degree from the National University of Mexico and his Doctor of Public Health degree in Epidemiology from Harvard University. His postdoctoral training included a residency in Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, a clinical fellowship at McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and a teaching fellowship in Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health. From 1988 to 1997, Dr. Tohen was the Clinical Director of the Bipolar and Psychotic Disorders Program at McLean Hospital. From 1997 to 2008 he was a member of Lilly Research Laboratories reaching the senior-most scientific level of Distinguished Lilly Scholar. In 2009 he joined the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio as the Head of the Division of Mood and Anxiety Disorders. Dr. Tohen received a National Service Award in Psychiatric Epidemiology from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and Harvard University. He also received a FIRST award from the NIMH, the Pope Award from McLean Hospital, and a NARSAD Young Investigator Award and the Simon Bolivar Award from the American Psychiatric Association. In 2014 he was named by Thomson Reuter’s “The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds, 2014”. Honorees were the scientists who ranked in the Top 1 percent by citations of their published work in 21 broad fields between 2002 and 2012.