Professor of Psychiatry, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
J. Michael Bostwick, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
J. Michael Bostwick, MD, is Professor of Psychiatry in the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Senior Associate Dean for Admissions at Mayo Medical School in Rochester, MN. He has more than 125 publications on suicide epidemiology and prevention, medical marijuana, and numerous psychosomatic topics, and serves on editorial boards for three medical journals. He is an avid teacher at all levels of Mayo's medical school and psychiatry residency, and frequently collaborates with trainees on research and writing projects. He holds undergraduate degrees from Yale University and the University of Hawaii in Art History and Zoology respectively. He attended Brown University for medical school, and did residency and fellowship training in pediatrics, adult psychiatry, and consultation liaison psychiatry at Harvard University at Massachusetts General Hospital, Cambridge Hospital, and Brigham and Women's Hospital respectively. He is currently working on a Masters of Fine Arts degree in non-fiction from Bennington College, his focus being a memoir of suicide, exploring how the deaths of family, friends, and patients have shaped the psychiatrist he has become.