Dr. Richard Shader is a Senior Research Fellow and a Medical Consultant at the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development. He is also Professor Emeritus of Immunology and Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the Tufts University School of Medicine. Prior to joining the Tufts faculty, he was an Associate Professor at the Harvard Medical School. Dr. Shader was a member of the National Advisory Mental Health Council; served on scientific advisory boards at the National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH), the Alzheimer’s Foundation, and the Association for Aging Research; and was a member of the Data Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB) for the NIH Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. He is the author or co-author of over 1,000 scientific publications and 21 scientific books and monographs. Dr. Shader founded and was the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology and the Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Clinical Therapeutics. A 1956 graduate of Harvard College, Dr. Shader received his medical degree from the New York University School of Medicine in 1960 and his psychiatric training at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center at Harvard Medical School and at the NIMH in Bethesda, Maryland.