Mark Zimmerman

Prof. Zimmerman is Professor in Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown University and Director of Outpatient Psychiatry and the Partial Hospital Program at Rhode Island Hospital, RI, United States. He is also the Director of the Rhode Island Methods to Improve Diagnostic Assessment and Services (MIDAS) project. Prof. Zimmerman has conducted research in psychiatry for more than two decades with a focus on the area of assessment and diagnosis of mental diseases. Prof. Zimmerman’s interest in assessment scale development is exemplified by the development of measures of the anxious distress and mixed features specifier of Major Depressive Disorder, and a measure of patient satisfaction. Prof. Zimmerman has more than 450 publications, is on the editorial board of eleven peer-reviewed journals, and is the associate editor of the Journal of Personality Disorders.