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Clinical Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, California, United States
Douglas L. Noordsy, M.D. is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine, where he is Director of the Lifestyle Psychiatry clinic, and co-director of the Stanford Center on Longevity’s Lifestyle Medicine program. Dr. Noordsy has been practicing lifestyle medicine throughout his career, focusing on physical exercise for brain health and recovery from psychiatric disorders. He has been studying physical exercise for managing symptoms and creating wellbeing among people with schizophrenia over the past decade. Dr. Noordsy’s lab is studying the effects of physical exercise on psychiatric symptoms, cognition and well-being, as well as relationships between activity level and motivation and recovery.
Dr. Noordsy is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, and a member of the American College of Psychiatry and the International Society for Sports Psychiatry. His most recent books Lifestyle Psychiatry and Intervening Early in Psychosis were published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in 2019.
Dr. Noordsy received a B.S. in Chemistry, magna cum laude from St. Lawrence University, an M.D. from Washington University School of Medicine and completed residency training in psychiatry at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. He advanced to Professor of Psychiatry at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth prior to moving to Stanford in 2015.
I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.