Roy Perlis, MD
Enriched profileVice Chair for Research, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital; Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School · Massachusetts General Hospital
Roy Perlis is Vice Chair for Research, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital; Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School at Massachusetts General Hospital. OpenAlex indexes 903 publications with 54,459 citations (h-index 106); ClinicalTrials.gov lists 5 registered studies with this person as an investigator. By OpenAlex citation count, this profile ranks in the top 5% of Psychiatry profiles in the findmyKOL directory.
Data verified 14 Aug 2026
Overview
Updated 27 Aug 2026
Roy Perlis, MD, is Vice Chair for Research, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital. The public record shows 903 publications with 54,459 citations (h-index 106), centered on Bipolar Disorder and Treatment, Treatment of Major Depression, Genetic Associations and Epidemiology. It also documents an investigator role on 5 registered clinical trials, industry payments reported by 1 companies, 16 NIH-funded awards (2003–2026).
- Most recent indexed publication: 2026 · medRxiv
- Top research focus: Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
- 5 registered trials on ClinicalTrials.gov
- Open Payments reporting from 1 companies
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from trials led + research topicsResearch focus
OpenAlex concept fingerprintWorks with
trial sponsors and companies reporting paymentsScholarship
indexed output and impact (OpenAlex)Distinct works indexed by OpenAlex, matched via ORCID; 45 in PubMed.
Total citations across indexed works.
Hirsch index (OpenAlex). i10-index 412.
Clinical & industry
trials, payments and federal fundingContact
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Practice address
Telephone
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Updated 27 Aug 2026
Listed as an investigator on 5 registered studies on ClinicalTrials.gov. The most recent:
- Routine vs. Early Postpartum Depression Screening: A Pragmatic Clinical Trial
Sponsor: Massachusetts General Hospital
- A Proof of Concept Study of Intravenous Sodium Nitroprusside in Adults With Symptomatic Schizophrenia
Sponsor: Massachusetts General Hospital
- Adjunctive Isradipine for the Treatment of Bipolar Depression
Sponsor: Massachusetts General Hospital
Industry payments
Updated 27 Aug 2026
1 company reported payments to CMS in program years 2022–2025. These are public disclosures, not judgments. The latest:
- Alkermes, Inc.Program year20251 payment
- Alkermes, Inc.Program year20241 payment
- Alkermes, Inc.Program year20231 payment
Medicare prescribing footprint (2024)
The drugs this prescriber writes for Medicare patients, grouped by drug class and therapeutic area. Every percentage is a share of their total prescribing, so you can see what they prescribe most. These are proportions, not patient counts or dollar amounts. No condition is inferred: the claims record what was prescribed, never why.
Nervous system
100%Benzodiazepine56%Lorazepam100%Part D<11 patientsSSRI44%Fluoxetine Hcl100%Part D<11 patients
Drug classes come from the WHO ATC and U.S. National Library of Medicine (RxClass) classifications; prescribing counts come from the CMS Medicare Part D Prescribers file. Each drug is counted once, under its primary class. Medicare fee-for-service only, so no Medicare Advantage, commercial, or pediatric prescribing is included. CMS publishes this data about 17 months after the fact.
NIH funding
Updated 27 Aug 2026
16 NIH research awards on record, funded 2003–2026 per NIH RePORTER. The latest:
- JASPer-MH: Jointly Assessed Scalable Phenotypes for Mental Health
Massachusetts General Hospital
FY2026$2,109,289U01MH136059 - Characterization of schizophrenia liability genes in models of human microglial synaptic pruning
Massachusetts General Hospital
FY2026$592,223R01MH131687 - Scalable Phenotyping to Assay Risk in Childhood after eXposures in Pregnancy: SPARC-XP
Massachusetts General Hospital
FY2025$7,013,600UF1MH141632
Publications
Updated 27 Aug 2026
Their five most recent publications, matched to their ORCID record and linked to PubMed.
- Emulated trial of artificial intelligence use and subsequent depressive outcomes in a survey of US adults.
BMJ mental health
Article2026 - Functional genomic profiling of schizophrenia-associated genes reveals key microglial regulators.
Neuropsychopharmacology
Article2026 - The American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology (ASCP) task force on the deprescribing of psychotropic medications for mood disorders: Delphi expert consensus.
The British journal of psychiatry
Review2026
Most-cited works
by citation count (OpenAlex)- 01
- 02Molecular Genetics of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity DisorderArticle2,368 citations2005
- 03Genetic relationship between five psychiatric disorders estimated from genome-wide SNPsArticle2,361 citations2013
- 04Genome-wide association study identifies 30 loci associated with bipolar disorderArticle1,641 citations2019
- 05
Network
Updated 27 Aug 2026
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Online presence
Updated 27 Aug 2026
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doximity.com/pub/roy-perlis-md
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linkedin.com/in/roy-perlis-0252254
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researchgate.net/profile/Roy-Perlis/3
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Mentions by others
where others cite or feature them- Other
mghmcleanpsychiatry.massgeneralbrigham.org/faculty_member/roy-perlis-md
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mghpsychnews.org/roy-perlis-md-msc-the-mental-health-costs-of-the-pandemic-epidemic-podcast
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youtube.com/watch
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Background & recognition
Updated 27 Aug 2026
Credentials, appointments and honors, newest first, each linked to the public source it came from.
Education
degrees and training on record- B.Sc. in Neuroscience
Brown University
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Harvard Medical School
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Harvard School of Public Health
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Psychiatry, American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology
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Editorial & leadership roles
journal and society appointments- Director
Center for Quantitative Health, Massachusetts General Hospital
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MD Endowed Chair, Massachusetts General Hospital
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JAMA+ AI (JAMA Network)
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Awards & honors
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Secondary affiliations
appointments beyond the home institution- Professor of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School
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Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard (Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research)
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Media & interviews
press, podcasts and appearances- Guest
Rethinking Clinical Trials Podcast (May 21, 2026 episode), discussed his MGH Grand Rounds talk "Keeping a Human in the Loop: Scientific Publishing and AI"
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"Brain Trust: Conversations in Psychopharmacology" podcast (with Joseph F. Goldberg, MD), "Artificial Intelligence in Psychopharmacology: Promise and Pitfalls, With Roy Perlis, MD"
provisionalFound in a cited public source but not yet independently corroborated. Published as a labeled candidate and queued for verification.How we verify →psychiatrictimes.com ↗ - Featured commentary
"AI in Psychiatry: What's Ready and What's Not", Medscape
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