Kafui Dzirasa is the A. Eugene and Marie Washington Presidential Distinguished Professor at Duke University, with appointments in the departments of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, neurobiology, biomedical engineering and neurosurgery. His goal is to combine his research, medical training and community experience to improve outcomes for diverse communities suffering from neurological and psychiatric illness. Dzirasa has been awarded the International Mental Health Research Organization Rising Star Award, the Sydney Baer Prize for Schizophrenia Research, the inaugural Duke Medical Alumni Emerging Leader Award and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the nation’s highest award for scientists and engineers in the early stages of their research careers. He is a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation, National Academy of Medicine and American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
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