Professor Kenneth Kaufman

Kenneth R. Kaufman, AM, MD, FRCPsych, DLFAPA, FAES is Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology, and Anaesthesiology at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (New Brunswick, New Jersey) where he has been in residence for the past 27+ years as well as Visiting Professor of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London with prior academic appointments at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, USC School of Medicine, and UCLA School of Medicine. Professor Kaufman received his AB in chemistry from Columbia University, AM in theoretical organic chemistry from Harvard University, and MD from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis with psychiatric training at Barnes and Renard Hospitals (Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis), Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience/Maudsley Hospital, and Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic (University of Pittsburgh).

Professor Kaufman specializes in mood disorders, psychopharmacology, psychosomatic medicine, antiepileptic drugs in the treatment of psychiatric disorders, psychiatric aspects of epilepsy, sports psychiatry, stigma, and ethics during a nearly 50-year career as a clinical academician. Professor Kaufman has an international voice as an advocate for persons with epilepsy focusing on psychiatric aspects of epilepsy and epilepsy stigma and has served on the ILAE Task Force on Sports and Epilepsy and the AES Psychosocial Comorbidities Committee.

Professor Kaufman is presently Chair of the Pan American Division of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and Editor-in-Chief of BJPsych Open. Goals include dissemination of evidence-based knowledge, research integrity/publication ethics, and equity amongst all College divisions.