UCI Health clinician Adrian Preda named editor-in-chief of Psychiatric News
Organization is official news service of the American Psychiatric Association
December 13, 2023
Dr. Adrian Preda was appointed by the
APA Board of Trustees in October
and will officially start Jan. 1, 2024.
(Credit: Karen Tapia)
Orange, Calif. — Adrian Preda, MD, a UCI Health psychiatrist and professor in the Department of Psychiatry & Human Behavior, UCI School of Medicine, has been named editor-in-chief of Psychiatric News, the official news service of the American Psychiatric Association (APA), the association announced this week.
“We’re thrilled to welcome Dr. Preda to the Psychiatric News team,” said APA CEO and Medical Director Saul Levin, MD, MPA. “In doing so he will lead the primary and most trusted source of information covering developments in the field of psychiatry that impact clinical care and professional practice.”
“Psychiatry is a very exciting field to be in right now,” Preda said. “There are a lot of important education opportunities available related to our field, and Psychiatric News is ideally placed to provide that to APA members and the broader public.”
An academic psychiatrist, Preda joined the UCI School of Medicine in 2006 and has served in multiple positions at the institution, including director of residency training in psychiatry and vice chair of education in psychiatry and human behavior. His research at UCI has been focused on the use of brain imaging and genetic biomarkers to improve validation of clinical trial outcomes in schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s dementia.
Preda attended the Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Bucharest, Romania, and completed his residency at Yale University School of Medicine, serving as chief resident before joining the Yale faculty as an assistant professor. While at Yale, Preda conducted research on prodromal schizophrenia, diffusion tensor MRI and rTMS. He subsequently joined UT Southwestern and the VA North Texas Health Care System in Dallas, serving as medical director of mental health triage and director of National Clozapine Center.
Preda has published studies in numerous journals. He received a NARSAD Young Investigator Award and is currently an associate editor of Frontiers in Psychiatry, Frontiers in Neuroscience, and Frontiers in Neuropsychopharmacology. He is section editor of psychiatry of EBSCO’s DynaMed, associate editor of Cochrane Clinical Answers, and editor-in-chief of StatPearls’ Geriatric Psychiatry, Consultation Liaison, and Medical Students Psychiatry. He has also written for Psychology Today and PLOS Mind the Brain. Preda is a faculty member of the Faculty of 1000 and an APA Distinguished Fellow.
The American Psychiatric Association, founded in 1844, is the oldest medical association in the country. It is also the largest psychiatric association in the world with more than 38,000 physician members specializing in the diagnosis, treatment, prevention and research of mental illnesses.
Psychiatric News is published in print monthly and online daily. It includes important clinical and research news related to psychiatry, information about mental health issues with a particular focus on news that affects the profession of psychiatry and the delivery of quality care to patients, and information about APA’s policies, programs, education and advocacy.
Preda was appointed by the APA Board of Trustees in October and will officially start Jan. 1, 2024. He succeeds Jeffrey Borenstein, MD, who has served as editor-in-chief since 2012.
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