Biography: Charles F. Reynolds III, M.D.
Charles F. Reynolds III, M.D., is the UPMC Endowed Professor in Geriatric Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and Professor of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences at the Graduate School of Public Health. Hedirects the Aging Institute of the UPMC and University of Pittsburgh, and the NIMH sponsored Center of Excellence in the Prevention and Treatment of Late Life Mood Disorders.Dr. Reynolds directs the John A. Hartford Center of Excellence in Geriatric Psychiatry at Pittsburgh and chairs the Sleep Wake Disorders Workgroup for the DSM-5 at the American Psychiatric Association.
Dr. Reynolds is internationally renowned in the field of geriatric psychiatry. His primary research interests focus on mood, grief, and sleep disorders of later life, with a particular focus on mental health services in primary care, improving treatment strategies, and depression prevention.
Dr. Reynolds graduated magna cum laude from the University of Virginia before earning his medical degree from Yale University School of Medicine in 1973. He then completed a straight medical internship at the RoyalVictoriaHospital and MontrealNeurologicalHospital and continued on to post-graduate work in adult and geriatric psychiatry, sleep disorders and clinical electroencephalography at the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic.
The recipient of a National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Research Scientist Award and a MERIT award for Maintenance Therapies in Late-Life Depression, Dr. Reynolds has been named several times as one of The Best Doctors in America and is the 2012 recipient of the APA Jack Weinberg Award for lifetime contributions to geriatric psychiatry. Dr. Reynolds chaired the planning committee for the 1991 NIH consensus development conference on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Depression in Late-Life, the 2001 NDMDA consensus conference on Unmet Needs in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Late-Life Mood Disorder, and the DSM-5 Workgroup on Sleep-Wake Disorders (2007-2013). In addition to serving on the Institute of Medicinestudies of suicide prevention, sleep disorders, and the nation’s eldercare workforce, Dr. Reynolds has served as chairman and member of several research review committees at the NIMH. He has servedas a member of the National Advisory Mental Health Council of the NIMH and has served as President of the AmericanCollege of Psychiatrists.
Dr. Reynolds’ bibliography contains more than 620 publications in peer-reviewed journals, which he has written over the past 31 years. The associate editor of American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, Dr. Reynolds has also served on the editorial board of theAmerican Journal of Psychiatry and the Archives of General Psychiatry. He has published his work in JAMA, the New England Journal of Medicine, and The Lancet.