Executive Director
Stanley Foundation
Bethesda, Maryland

E. Fuller Torrey, M.D., is a research psychiatrist and Associate Director for Laboratory Research of the Stanley Medical Research Institute, which supports research on schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. He is also co-director of the Stanley Brain Research Laboratory, a professor of psychiatry at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, an adjunct professor at George Mason University School of Law, and president of the Treatment Advocacy Center. From 1977 to 1986, he was on the clinical staff of St. Elizabeths Hospital, specializing in the treatment of severe psychiatric disorders. From 1988 to 1992, he directed a study of identical twins with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. His research has explored viruses as a possible cause of these disorders, including research in Ireland and Papua New Guinea.

Dr. Torrey was educated at Princeton University (B.A., Magna Cum Laude), McGill University (M.D.), and Stanford University (M.A. in anthropology) and trained in psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine. He practiced general medicine in Ethiopia for two years as a Peace Corps physician, in the South Bronx in an O.E.O. Health Center, and in Alaska in the Indian Health Service. From 1970 to 1975, he was special assistant to the director of the National Institute of Mental Health.

Dr. Torrey has appeared on national television (e.g., Donahue, Oprah, 20/20, 60 Minutes, and Dateline) and has written for many newspapers. He has received two Commendation Medals from the U.S. Public Health Service, a 1984 Special Families Award from NAMI, a 1991 National Caring Award, and in 1999, research awards from the International Congress on Schizophrenia and NARSAD.