Dr. Jeff Daskalakis

Dr. Zafiris ‘Jeff' Daskalakis is the Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at UC San Diego and is the inaugural holder of the Igor and JoAnn Grant Endowed Chair in Psychiatry. He was formerly at the Center for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) at the University of Toronto and was the inaugural holder of the Temerty Chair in Therapeutic Brain Intervention.

His research is focused on developing novel treatments and understanding the neurophysiology of these novel interventions for severe psychiatric disorders. He has established Canada’s first neuromodulation clinical and training program and he holds or has held numerous federal operating grants and awards, including numerous grants from the NIH and CIHR. He has received over $80 million in research funding and has over 500 peer-reviewed publications, and is an editorial board member for Biological Psychiatry and he is an Associate Editor for Clinical Neurophysiology.

He is also a member of the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation (formerly NARSAD) Scientific Council and is a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher.