The Roehrhoff Rickels Professorship

The Professorship was established through the generosity of Karl Rickels, MD, and honors his mother Steffi Roehrhoff Rickels. It is intended to be awarded to a renowned psychiatrist known nationally for interest in translational medicine with particular interest in biological psychiatry inclusive of mood and anxiety and depression disorders.

During Dr. Rickels' remarkable 60-year career he founded both the Mood and Anxiety Disorders Section in the Department of Psychiatry and the Division of Human Behavior and Reproduction in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Since 1959, he has conducted research on anxiety, panic disorders, social phobias, depression, insomnia, PMS, and treatment response. His insight has been sought worldwide in shaping drug development and policy.

Current Chairholder

Roehrhoff Rickels Professorship is currently open.

Previous Chairholder

• Dwight L. Evans, MD