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CharlesRaison
Charles L. Raison
Affiliated Faculty at the Center for Healthy Minds, Mary Sue and Mike Shannon Chair for Healthy Minds, Children & Families, Professor of Human Development and Family Studies

Charles Raison is the Mary Sue and Mike Shannon Chair for Healthy Minds, Children & Families and Professor, School of Human Ecology and Professor, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin–Madison. Previously, he was Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine and the Barry and Janet Lang Professor of Integrative Mental Health at the Norton School of Family and Consumer Sciences, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, University of Arizona.

In addition to his academic positions, Charles serves as the founding Director of the Center for Compassion Studies in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Arizona and is the Director for Clinical and Translational Research for the Usona Institute, as well as the mental health expert for CNN.com.

Charles has an undergraduate degree in anthropology from Stanford University and a Master’s degree in English literature from the University of Denver. He received his medical degree from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO and did his residency training in psychiatry at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA, where he later served as Director of Emergency Psychiatry Services.

Charles is internationally recognized for his studies examining novel mechanisms involved in the development and treatment of major depression and other stress-related emotional and physical conditions, as well as for his work examining the physical and behavioral effects of compassion training.

The recipient of several teaching awards, Charles has received research funding from the National Institute of Mental Health, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Charles received the Raymond Pearl Memorial Award from the Human Biology Association “in recognition of his contributions to our understanding of evolutionary biocultural origins of mental health and illness,” and was recently recognized as one of five university-wide “Faculty of Excellence” at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Recent Publications

Education

M.D., Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, 1991

PA Premedical Program, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Post Baccalaureate 1986

M.A. in English, with emphasis in creative writing, University of Denver, Denver, CO,1985

B.A. in Anthropology with honors and departmental distinction, Stanford University, Stanford, CA,1980

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