Gerald Nestadt
The Johns Hopkins Hospital
Office
(410) 955-5212
Fax (410) 367-2063 600 North Wolfe Street Meyer 131 Baltimore, MD 21287
Primary Specialty
Psychiatrist
Practice
The Johns Hopkins Hospital
Gender
Male
About
Gerald Nestadt
Dr. Gerald Nestadt is the Rudolf Hoehn-Saric and Evanne Hoehn-Saric Professor of Anxiety and OCD Research in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences in the Johns Hopkins Medical School and Professor of Mental Health in the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins. He is the director of the Johns Hopkins OCD clinic, and teaches residents and students about this disorder.He is active in research, clinical treatment, and education in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). His research, funded by the NIMH, involves investigating the genetic etiology of obsessive compulsive disorder. He received his medical degree from the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa and a degree in Public Health at the Johns Hopkins University. He completed his psychiatric residency training at Johns Hopkins and a psychiatric epidemiology fellowship, also at Johns Hopkins. He has been on the faculty at Johns Hopkins for the past 30 years. In addition to studying OCD, he is involved in epidemiological research studying personality in the general population and the genetics of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. He has published more than one hundred and sixty papers in peer reviewed psychiatric journals. He served on the American Psychiatric Association OCD Treatment Guidelines Committee and was a consultant on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders V Revisions committee, and the OCD Foundation Scientific Advisory Committee.Services
Gerald Nestadt practices psychiatry at 600 North Wolfe Street Meyer 131, Baltimore, MD 21287. Psychiatrists are licensed physicians who specialize in the evaluation, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of mental and emotional disorders.To learn more, or to make an appointment with Gerald Nestadt in Baltimore, MD, please call (410) 955-5212 for more information.