Israel Liberzon, MD, is a University Distinguished Professor and Stearman Endowed Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Texas A&M Health. He started his academic career as assistant professor at the University of Michigan, and established the post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) program at the Ann Arbor VAMC, a program that has grown and remained at the forefront of biological research of PTSD worldwide for over 20 years. He progressed in Michigan as an associate, full and then endowed professor, also serving as a professor of psychology and neuroscience leading the trauma, stress and anxiety research group, the psychiatric affective neuroimaging laboratory, the Veterans Affairs (VA) fMRI research facility, the stress neurobiology laboratory and more.
In 2018 Dr. Liberzon was recruited as a founding chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Texas A&M University. Dr. Liberzon’s primary research interest centers on emotions, stress and stress-related disorders like PTSD, particularly in the regulation and dysregulation of stress response systems. His work integrates cognitive, functional neuroimaging, neuroendocrine and genetic approaches.
Dr. Liberzon’s leadership has been continuously funded with multiple National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) RO1 grants, VA Career Development and National Institutes of Health (NIH) K awards, VA merit awards, Army and Department of Defense grants and more. He has published over 320 peer-reviewed manuscripts and has authored and edited several books and multiple book chapters. Dr. Liberzon has also mentored 11 KO1 and VA Career Development awardees and multiple trainees who are holding leading academic positions in first-rank institutions around the world.