Top experts by indication / Psychiatry
Most active experts in Depression (MDD)
2026 edition, data as of October 26, 2026
439 key opinion leaders in the directory are tagged to Depression (MDD). The tables below rank them by one public measure each: registered trials, citations, NIH awards and congress contributions. Each is a count from a named source, not a judgment about the person, and every row links a profile where the count can be checked.
Most registered trials
Registered clinical trials in this indication on which the person is a listed investigator, counted from ClinicalTrials.gov. 301 of the 439 people tagged to this indication have this count on record; the 25 highest are listed. Source: ClinicalTrials.gov.
| # | Expert | trials |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maurizio FavaMassachusetts General Hospital, MA | 20 trials |
| 2 | Madhukar TrivediUT Southwestern Medical Center, TX | 18 trials |
| 3 | George AlexopoulosWeill Cornell Medicine, NY | 17 trials |
| 4 | James MurroughIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY | 16 trials |
| 5 | Andre BrunoniTX | 13 trials |
| 6 | Richard SheltonUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital, AL | 13 trials |
| 7 | Amit AnandIN | 12 trials |
| 8 | Andrew NierenbergMassachusetts General Hospital, MA | 12 trials |
| 9 | Eric LenzeWashington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO | 12 trials |
| 10 | Dan IosifescuNathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, MA | 11 trials |
| 11 | Andrew LeuchterUniversity of California, Los Angeles, CA | 11 trials |
| 12 | Yvette ShelineUniversity of Pennsylvania, PA | 11 trials |
| 13 | Mark GeorgeSC | 10 trials |
| 14 | Jonathan StewartNY | 10 trials |
| 15 | Ian CookCA | 10 trials |
| 16 | Charles ConwayWashington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO | 10 trials |
| 17 | Cristina CusinMassachusetts General Hospital, MA | 10 trials |
| 18 | Paul CroarkinMayo Clinic, MN | 10 trials |
| 19 | Albert YeungMA | 9 trials |
| 20 | Zev Schuman-OlivierMA | 9 trials |
| 21 | Marlene FreemanAZ | 9 trials |
| 22 | David SpiegelVA | 9 trials |
| 23 | Nolan WilliamsCA | 8 trials |
| 24 | Perry RenshawVA Salt Lake City Healthcare System, MA | 8 trials |
| 25 | Andrew MillerGA | 7 trials |
Most cited
Citations to the person's whole published record in OpenAlex, not only their work in this indication, among the people with at least two registered trials in it. 110 of the 439 people tagged to this indication have at least 2 registered trials in it and this count on record; the 25 highest are listed. Source: OpenAlex.
| # | Expert | citations |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Victor MontoriMayo Clinic, MN | 115,878 citations |
| 2 | Dennis CharneyIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY | 111,550 citations |
| 3 | Maurizio FavaMassachusetts General Hospital, MA | 94,531 citations |
| 4 | John KrystalYale School of Medicine, CT | 89,336 citations |
| 5 | Madhukar TrivediUT Southwestern Medical Center, TX | 79,213 citations |
| 6 | Alan SchatzbergStanford University School of Medicine, CA | 60,489 citations |
| 7 | Roy PerlisMassachusetts General Hospital, MA | 54,459 citations |
| 8 | Susan McElroyLindner Center of HOPE, OH | 53,191 citations |
| 9 | Eric ChenUniversity of Hong Kong, TX | 52,043 citations |
| 10 | Jeffrey MillerUniversity of Minnesota Medical School, MN | 47,488 citations |
| 11 | Patrick McGrathColumbia University Department of Psychiatry, NY | 45,138 citations |
| 12 | Daniel JavittColumbia University Irving Medical Center, NY | 43,929 citations |
| 13 | Mark FryeMayo Clinic, MN | 42,160 citations |
| 14 | George AlexopoulosWeill Cornell Medicine, NY | 41,831 citations |
| 15 | Andre BrunoniTX | 41,757 citations |
| 16 | Dost OngurMcLean Hospital, MA | 38,529 citations |
| 17 | Matthew GoetzMayo Clinic, MN | 36,210 citations |
| 18 | Jair SoaresMcGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston, TX | 35,780 citations |
| 19 | Gerard SanacoraYale School of Medicine, CT | 35,291 citations |
| 20 | Perry RenshawVA Salt Lake City Healthcare System, MA | 33,732 citations |
| 21 | Andrew NierenbergMassachusetts General Hospital, MA | 33,127 citations |
| 22 | Yvette ShelineUniversity of Pennsylvania, PA | 31,080 citations |
| 23 | Sarah LisanbyArizona State University John Shufeldt School of Medicine and Medical Engineering, NY | 29,309 citations |
| 24 | Robert CarneyWashington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, TX | 28,694 citations |
| 25 | Ziad NahasUniversity of Minnesota Medical School, MN | 26,971 citations |
Most NIH awards
NIH awards on the person's record in NIH RePORTER, across all of their funded work, among the people with at least two registered trials in this indication. 130 of the 439 people tagged to this indication have at least 2 registered trials in it and this count on record; the 25 highest are listed. Source: NIH RePORTER.
| # | Expert | awards |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Frederick AlticeYale School of Medicine, CT | 28 awards |
| 2 | Daniel JavittColumbia University Irving Medical Center, NY | 27 awards |
| 3 | Deepak D'SouzaCT | 26 awards |
| 4 | Andrew MillerGA | 25 awards |
| 5 | John KrystalYale School of Medicine, CT | 24 awards |
| 6 | Michael IrwinCA | 22 awards |
| 7 | George AlexopoulosWeill Cornell Medicine, NY | 21 awards |
| 8 | Larry BrownRI | 18 awards |
| 9 | Martha SajatovicCase Western Reserve University School of Medicine, OH | 17 awards |
| 10 | Madhukar TrivediUT Southwestern Medical Center, TX | 16 awards |
| 11 | Davangere DevanandColumbia University Medical Center, NY | 16 awards |
| 12 | Roy PerlisMassachusetts General Hospital, MA | 16 awards |
| 13 | Dost OngurMcLean Hospital, MA | 14 awards |
| 14 | Maurizio FavaMassachusetts General Hospital, MA | 14 awards |
| 15 | Caron ZlotnickRI | 13 awards |
| 16 | Joan LubyMO | 13 awards |
| 17 | Kerry ResslerGA | 13 awards |
| 18 | Eric LenzeWashington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO | 13 awards |
| 19 | Jeffrey MillerUniversity of Minnesota Medical School, MN | 13 awards |
| 20 | Andrew KrystalNC | 11 awards |
| 21 | Michael MilhamNY | 11 awards |
| 22 | Ismene PetrakisYale School of Medicine, CT | 11 awards |
| 23 | James MurroughIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY | 11 awards |
| 24 | Mark GeorgeSC | 10 awards |
| 25 | Michael LiebowitzNY | 10 awards |
Most congress contributions
Congress abstracts and presentations attributed to the person and verified by DOI, across every meeting the directory tracks, among the people with at least two registered trials in this indication. 9 of the 439 people tagged to this indication have at least 2 registered trials in it and this count on record; the 9 highest are listed. Source: Congress abstracts, DOI-verified.
| # | Expert | contributions |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Matthew GoetzMayo Clinic, MN | 279 contributions |
| 2 | Kevin CamphausenNational Cancer Institute (NCI), MD | 120 contributions |
| 3 | Cristina CusinMassachusetts General Hospital, MA | 3 contributions |
| 4 | Andrew NierenbergMassachusetts General Hospital, MA | 1 contribution |
| 5 | Martha SajatovicCase Western Reserve University School of Medicine, OH | 1 contribution |
| 6 | Andrew LeuchterUniversity of California, Los Angeles, CA | 1 contribution |
| 7 | George PapakostasMassachusetts General Hospital, MA | 1 contribution |
| 8 | David RubinowUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC | 1 contribution |
| 9 | Cynthia EppersonUniversity of Colorado School of Medicine, CO | 1 contribution |
Emerging
17 of the 439 carry the Emerging flag: publication and trial activity rising over the recent three years, in the top ten percent for growth among specialty peers at a similar career stage. Listed A to Z, not ranked; the flag is a yes or nothing, never a score. How the flag is computed.
| Zafiris DaskalakisUniversity of California, San Diego, CA |
| Keming GaoUniversity Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, OH |
| Leighton HueyGeisinger College of Health Sciences, PA |
| Susan KozauerJohnson & Johnson, MD |
| Partam ManalaiMary Washington Hospital, VA |
| Elisabeth MarshJohns Hopkins University School of Medicine, MD |
| Brian MickeyHuntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, MI |
| Raymond OwnbyNova Southeastern University, FL |
| Aysegul OzerdemMayo Clinic, MN |
| Sanjeev PathakAcadia Pharmaceuticals, DE |
| Gary SachsMassachusetts General Hospital, MA |
| Yvette ShelineUniversity of Pennsylvania, PA |
| Christopher SolaMayo Clinic, MN |
| Marie SollerOregon Health & Science University, OR |
| Cenk TekYale School of Medicine, CT |
| Subhdeep VirkThe Ohio State University, OH |
| John ZajeckaRush University Medical Center, IL |
How these tables are computed
The cohort is every profile in the directory tagged to Depression (MDD), from the person's registered trials and published research. Only indications with at least 200 tagged people get a page; a smaller cohort would say more about the tag than about the people in it. Each table sorts the cohort by one count, highest first, with no weighting, no blending and no editorial pass. Ties are broken by the profile's stable internal id so the same counts always give the same order. A person with no count on record is left out of that table, not ranked last.
Citations, NIH awards and congress contributions are counts over a person's whole record, not their work in this indication alone, so those three tables are limited to the indication's investigators: people with at least 2 registered trials in it. Without that rule the most cited people in a cohort are the ones whose careers span many diseases, which is a fact about their careers, not about this field. The registered-trials table is the indication-scoped count itself and has no such limit.
The counts are recomputed on every publish and the page carries the date of the publish it was built from. Previous editions are superseded, not archived.
What is deliberately absent
Reported industry payments are on every profile but are not a table here: a count of payers is a fact, and ranking people by it reads as a judgment. Prescribing volume is part of the paid workspace. The directory's influence tier is a judgment and never orders a public page. Sources and methodology.
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