The McLure Professorship in Psychiatry II

This Professorship was established in 2022, when the value of the endowment of the McLure Professorship in Psychiatry had increased sufficiently to support a second professorship. Originally established by the bequest of Elizabeth Meriwether McLure, the endowment supports a professorship in psychiatry and the behavioral sciences. Preference is given to a faculty member focused on the psychological and social aspects of therapy for schizophrenia. The gift honors the memory of Elizabeth Meriwether McLure (1888-1972) and her husband Norman Roosevelt McLure (1880-1941). 

Current Chairholder
Theodore D. Satterthwaite, MD

Theodore Satterthwaite is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. Ted completed medical and graduate training at Washington University in St. Louis, where he was a student of Randy L. Buckner. Subsequently, he was a psychiatry resident and a neuropsychiatry fellow at Penn, under the mentorship of Raquel E. Gur. He joined the faculty of the Department of Psychiatry in 2014.

Since 2019, he has directed the Penn Lifespan Informatics and Neuroimaging Center (PennLINC).  At PennLINC, he and his team use multi-modal neuroimaging to describe both normal and abnormal patterns of brain development, with the goal of better understanding the origins of neuropsychiatric illness. Specifically, recent efforts seek to understand how fundamental properties of brain organization are refined by brain development in youth, and may promote risk or resilience to psychopathology. Taking a translational data science approach, work in his center leverages both large-scale data resources and advanced machine learning tools. To facilitate reproducible and open science, the team has designed and released several widely used software packages for the processing and analysis of functional and structural images. Thus far, this work has been funded by nine R01s from NIH as well as generous philanthropic gifts.

Dr. Satterthwaite’s research has been recognized with the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation's Klerman Prize for Clinical Research, the NIMH Biobehavioral Research Award for Innovative New Scientists (BRAINS) award, the NIH Merit Award. Six of his former trainees now hold faculty positions at top institutions.  Finally, for the past decade, Ted has seen patients and supervised residents in the outpatient psychiatry clinic.  His teaching has been recognized with the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Basic Science Teaching and the “Penn Pearls” award for clinical education.