Lorrin M. Koran (Donated Materials)

Lorrin M. Koran, M.D., received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School in 1966. Following an internship at UCLA, he completed a residency in psychiatry at Stanford University Medical Center and then served in the U.S. Public Health Service, serving as a Special Assistant to the Director of the National Institute of Mental Health, 1970-1972. After a year in London as a Visiting Colleague at the Maudsley Hospital Institute of Psychiatry, he joined the faculty at SUNY at Sony Brook in 1973, served as Associate Professor from 1976 to 1977, and as Director of Medical Student Education in Psychiatry from 1973 to 1977. In 1977 he joined the faculty at Stanford University Medical Center, where he has served as Professor of Psychiatry from 1984 to the present. In 1980, he created the Comprehensive Medicine Unit within Stanford University Hospital, which he directed until 1989. He directed the Psychiatric Consultation/Liaison Service from 1991 to 1995, and since 1989 has directed the Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Clinic and research program. Dr. Koran served as Visiting Professor at Stanford in Florence, Italy in 1991, where he taught a course entitled, "Medicine and Art in the Renaissance." He has twice received resident teaching awards from the Stanford Department of Psychiatry. Dr. Koran is board-certified in Psychiatry and is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.

Dr. Koran's research has focused on obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and related conditions, the relationship of medical and psychiatric disorders, pharmacotherapy for chronic depressive disorders, and pharmacoeconomic questions. He has chaired the research application review committee of the Obsessive-Compulsive Foundation and the American Psychiatric Association Workgroup that produced the Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. He is currently investigating novel medications for treatment-resistant OCD. Dr. Koran has lectured extensively throughout the world on these and related topics.

Dr, Koran is the author or co-author of more than 125 peer-reviewed articles and 26 book chapters, has edited two books and is the author of one, Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders in Adults: A Comprehensive Clinical Guide, published in 1999 by Cambridge University Press. He is a reviewer for many journals including the American Journal of Psychiatry, Biological Psychiatry, Psychiatry Research, Journal of Clinical Psychiatry and European Neuropsychopharmacology.