Charles F. Reynolds III, MD directs the Mental Health Intervention Research Center for the Study of Late-life Mood Disorders at the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He also is the program director of several NIMH-funded Research Training Grants. His primary research interests focus on mood and sleep disorders of later life, with a particular focus on treatment, the mechanisms of treatment response, and suicide prevention. Dr. Reynolds is the recipient of an NIMH Research Scientist Award and a MERIT award for Maintenance Therapies in Late-Life Depression.
Dr. Reynolds chaired the planning committee for the 1991 NIH consensus development conference on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Depression in Late-Life and the 2001 National Depressive and Manic Depressive Association (NDMDA) consensus conference on Unmet Needs in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Late-Life Mood Disorders. He served on the Institute of Medicine Study of the Pathophysiology and Prevention of Adolescent and Adult Suicide, and he has served as chairman and member of several research review committees at the NIMH. He currently serves on the National Mental Health Advisory Council of the NIMH.
His bibliography contains close to 400 publications in peer-reviewed journals and he is on the editorial board of several neuropsychiatric, gerontology and sleep journals. Dr. Reynolds received his MD from Yale in 1973.
