Nassir Ghaemi


Nassir Ghaemi is an academic psychiatrist, author, and Professor of Psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston. He has written several books on mental illness and mood disorders, and has contributed to many scientific journals and other published works.

Life

He immigrated to the United States at the age of 5 from Tehran, Iran and attended McLean High School in McLean, Virginia. He received his B.A. from George Mason University in 1986, and later a medical degree from Medical College of Virginia. He then went on to get an MA in philosophy from Tufts University in 2001, and a MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health in 2004.

Works