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Chair, Department of Psychiatry UC San Diego
UC San Diego Health
San Diego, California, United States
Zafiris ‘Jeff' Daskalakis is the newly appointed Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at UCSD. He was formerly the Temerty Chair and Chief of the General Adult Psychiatry at CAMH. His research focusses on neurophysiological and treatment studies using transcranial magnetic brain stimulation (rTMS) and magnetic seizure therapy (MST). He has established Canada’s first TMS clinical training program and he holds or has held numerous federal operating grants and awards, including grants from the NIH and CIHR. He has received over $50 million in research funding as PI, has over 420 peer-reviewed publications, and is an editorial board member for Biological Psychiatry, Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging and an Associate Editor for Clinical Neurophysiology. He is also a member of the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation (formerly NARSAD) Scientific Council.
Brainsway (Grant/Research Support)Magventure (Grant/Research Support)