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  • 2000 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)

Overview

Paul S. Appelbaum is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States and has a substantial body of work spanning medicine, psychology, and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their research focuses particularly on clinical psychology, genetics, public health, nephrology, and general health professions.

Their recent publications include a range of studies in high-impact journals. Notable papers include:

  • "An atlas of healthy and injured cell states and niches in the human kidney" (2023, Nature)
  • "Getting genetic ancestry right for science and society" (2022, Science)
  • "Rationale and design of the Kidney Precision Medicine Project" (2021, Kidney International)
  • "Disability, Ethics, and Health Care in the COVID-19 Pandemic" (2020, American Journal of Public Health)
  • "COVID-19 and psychiatrists' responsibilities: a WPA position paper" (2020, World Psychiatry)

Frequent co-authors in their publications are:

  • Wendy K. Chung
  • Krzysztof Kiryluk
  • Andrew S. Bomback
  • Vivette D. D'Agati
  • Sushrut S. Waikar

Common venues for their research include:

  • Psychiatric Services
  • Genetics in Medicine
  • World Psychiatry
  • UNC Libraries
  • American Journal of Kidney Diseases

The main topics covered in their work reflect a diverse set of interests:

  • BRCA gene mutations in cancer
  • Genomics and Rare Diseases
  • Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints
  • Ethics in Clinical Research
  • Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
  • Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending

Paul S. Appelbaum received recognition as a Member of the National Academy of Medicine in 2000.

Best Publications

  • Violence by people discharged from acute psychiatric inpatient facilities and by others in the same neighborhoods.

    Henry J. Steadman;Edward P. Mulvey;John Monahan;Pamela Clark Robbins

  • Rethinking Risk Assessment: The MacArthur Study of Mental Disorder and Violence

    John Monahan;Henry J. Steadman;Eric Silver;Paul S. Appelbaum

  • Assessing patients' capacities to consent to treatment

    Paul S. Appelbaum;Thomas Grisso

  • Assessment of Patients' Competence to Consent to Treatment

    Paul S. Appelbaum

  • Assessing Competence to Consent to Treatment: A Guide for Physicians and Other Health Professionals

    Thomas Grisso;Paul S. Appelbaum

  • False Hopes and Best Data: Consent to Research and the Therapeutic Misconception

    Paul S. Appelbaum;Loren H. Roth;Charles W. Lidz;Paul Benson

  • Informed Consent: Legal Theory and Clinical Practice

    Paul S. Appelbaum;Charles W. Lidz;Alan Meisel

  • The therapeutic misconception: informed consent in psychiatric research

    Paul S. Appelbaum;Loren H. Roth;Charles W. Lidz

  • The MacArthur Treatment Competence Study. III: Abilities of patients to consent to psychiatric and medical treatments.

    Thomas Grisso;Paul S. Appelbaum

  • The MacCAT-T: a clinical tool to assess patients' capacities to make treatment decisions.

    Thomas Grisso;Paul S. Appelbaum;Carolyn Hill-Fotouhi

  • Insight in schizophrenia. Its relationship to acute psychopathology.

    Joseph P. McEvoy;L. Joy Apperson;Paul S. Appelbaum;Priscilla Ortlip

  • Violence and delusions: data from the MacArthur Violence Risk Assessment Study.

    Paul S. Appelbaum;Pamela Clark Robbins;John Monahan

  • Decisional Capacity for Informed Consent in Schizophrenia Research

    William T. Carpenter;James M. Gold;Adrienne C. Lahti;Caleb A. Queern

  • A new brief instrument for assessing decisional capacity for clinical research.

    Dilip V. Jeste;Barton W. Palmer;Paul S. Appelbaum;Shahrokh Golshan

  • A Classification Tree Approach to the Development of Actuarial Violence Risk Assessment Tools

    Henry J. Steadman;Eric Silver;John Monahan;Paul S. Appelbaum

  • Developing a clinically useful actuarial tool for assessing violence risk

    John Monahan;Henry J. Steadman;Paul S. Appelbaum;Pamela Clark Robbins

  • Clinical HAndbook of Psychiatry and the Law

    Thomas G. Gutheil;Paul S. Appelbaum

  • Therapeutic misconception in clinical research: frequency and risk factors.

    Paul S. Appelbaum;Charles W. Lidz;Thomas Grisso

  • Therapeutic misconception and the appreciation of risks in clinical trials.

    Charles W Lidz;Paul S Appelbaum;Thomas Grisso;Michelle Renaud

  • Neuroleptics: Effects on Neuropsychological Function in Chronic Schizophrenic Patients

    Geraldine Cassens;Aleida K. Inglis;Paul S. Appelbaum;Thomas G. Gutheil

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles W. Lidz
Charles W. Lidz University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Wendy K. Chung
Wendy K. Chung Columbia University
Thomas Grisso
Thomas Grisso University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Robert Klitzman
Robert Klitzman Columbia University
Howard H. Goldman
Howard H. Goldman University of Maryland, College Park
John Monahan
John Monahan University of Virginia
Richard J. Bonnie
Richard J. Bonnie University of Virginia
Thomas G. Gutheil
Thomas G. Gutheil University of Toronto
Scott Y. H. Kim
Scott Y. H. Kim National Institutes of Health
Dilip V. Jeste
Dilip V. Jeste University of California, San Diego

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