Trisha Suppes, MD, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. In addition, she is Director of the Bipolar Disorder Research Program at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and Director of the Bipolar Disorder Module for the Texas Implementation of Medication Algorithms.
Dr. Suppes earned her BA in Human Biology at Stanford University in Stanford, California, her PhD in Anatomy/Physiology at the University of California at Los Angeles, and her MD at Dartmouth Medical School in Hanover, New Hampshire. After graduating, she completed her residency in Adult Psychiatry at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts. Her postdoctoral fellowship in Neurology was conducted at Stanford University School of Medicine, and her clinical fellowship in Psychiatry was conducted at McLean Hospital in the Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts. She also completed a fellowship in Neuroscience at Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Suppes is a member of the Scientific Board of the National Depressive and Manic-Depressive Association, the International Society for Bipolar Disorders, the International Society for Affective Disorders, and the National Institute of Health Advisory Council on STEP-BD Women’s Studies. She is on the Biostatistics and Clinical Science Advisory Committee at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. She also sits on the Editorial Boards of Bipolar Disorders-an International Journal of Psychiatry and Neurosciences, and Clinical Approaches in Bipolar Disorders. In addition, she is an editorial reviewer for over a dozen peer-reviewed journals, including the Archives of General Psychiatry, American Journal of Psychiatry, Bipolar Disorders, Journal of Psychiatric Research, Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology, and Psychological Medicine.
Dr. Suppes is active in teaching and research. She has received two teaching awards from the UTSW Medical Center Psychiatry residents. Dr. Suppes’ research interests include long-term treatment strategies for bipolar disorder, treatment strategies for bipolar II disorder, use of treatment algorithms, and complementary medicine approaches to treat patients with bipolar disorder. Her articles concerning these and related topics are published in American Journal of Psychiatry, Archives of General Psychiatry, Journal of Affective Disorder, Harvard Review of Psychiatry, and Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, to name a few.
