Tier 2 Professors

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XU Yifeng

professor/ chief physician

Email: xuyifeng@smhc.org.cn

Tel: 021-

Research Interests: Clinical and environmental determinants of major psychoses

Biography

  • Dr. Xu Yifeng received his MD and MS degrees from Shanghai Medical University, and completed his residency and fellowship in psychiatry at Shanghai Mental Health Center in Shanghai, China. In 1997, he received a Freeman Fellowship to study medical anthropology at Harvard Medical School for one year, where he was later appointed Visiting Professor in 2012.

  • Dr. Xu has been the president of Shanghai Mental Health Center (the National Medical Center for Mental Disorders) from 2011 to 2021. He is the head of Department of Psychiatry, and a member of Shanghai Jiao Tong University Academic Committee, as well as Academic Degree Evaluation Committee. In addition, he is the Editor-in-Chief of General Psychiatry, and past Chairman of Chinese Psychiatrist Association. Dr. Xu maintains active basic and applied research programs, with interests centered on the clinical and environmental determinants of major psychoses, especially schizophrenia and depression. He has participated in multiple national and international research programs as a principal investigator. He has published more than 170 peer-reviewed journal articles (WOS "times cited" count >6,000), and edited/translated dozens of books, textbooks and monographs. His work has appeared in the Social Science & Medicine, Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry, BMC Medical Ethics, Journal of Affective Disorders, PLoS One, British Journal of Psychiatry, World Journal of Biological Psychiatry, Psychiatry Research, Nature Genetics, Schizophrenia Research, and Lancet Psychiatry.

  • Dr. Xu’s clinical and consulting practice specializes in treatment of resistant schizophrenia and mood disorders.