S. Hossein Fatemi, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor
A graduate of Case Western Reserve University Medical School (M.D., 1991) and the University Hospitals program in general psychiatry, Cleveland, Ohio, and has a Ph.D. in anatomy from the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha. Dr. Fatemi served three post-doctoral fellowships at the University of Texas Health Science Center, Dept. Of Pharmacology at Houston, the Dept. Of Anatomy at McGill University in Montreal, and at the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Dental Research in Bethesda, Maryland.
Dr. Fatemi’s research and clinical interests have focused on the etiology and treatment of schizophrenia and mood disorders. His primary research interests include molecular causes and studies of the biological basis of schizophrenia and autism. He is an attending at the University Hospital CL Service working with psychiatry residents in their training. Dr. Fatemi has a NARSAD established investigator award, a Stanley Foundation award and a Minnesota Medical foundation grant for the investigation of the expression of several proteins in mouse hippocampus following prenatal exposure to influenza and mapping of the same proteins in the postmortem brains of patients with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, major depression and autism. Additionally, Dr. Fatemi has a NIH funded pilot project to determine the efficacy of Zyban in Nicotine reduction in schizophrenia patients. His latest publications include articles in Molecular Psychiatry, Neuroreport and Journal of Autism and neurodevelopmental disorders describing his latest findings on involvement of Reelin and Bcl-2 proteins in schizophrenia and autism.
Educational Summary:
University of Nebraska Medical Center - Ph.D., 1978-79
Case Western Reserve University - School of Medicine – M.D., 1987-91
Residency in Psychiatry - University Hospitals of Cleveland, 1992-96
Relevant Prior Experience:
Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy, McGill University, Montreal Quebec, Canada, 1983-84
Assistant Professor, Institute of Pathology, Case Western Reserve
University, Cleveland, Ohio, 1986-87
Associate Professor of Cell Biology and Neuroanatomy, 1997-present
Responsibilities/Activities in this Residency:
Consultation-liaison supervisor
Lecturer, Resident didactics
Research/Scholarly Interests:
Neurodevelopmental origins for schizophrenia and autism, pharmacologic modulation of psychosis and autistic behavior, brain plasticity, neurotoxicity and role of synaptic markers in brain development.
Email: fatem002@umn.edu
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