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Jeffrey A. Lieberman has been named to the first Thad and Alice Eure distinguished research professorship in psychiatry.
He teaches the psychobiology and neurobiology of schizophrenia to medical students, pharmacology graduate students and psychiatric residents.
He directs the Mental Health and Neurosciences Clinical Research Center and oversees research programs in the Department of Psychiatry and the medical school in severe mental illness.
His primary research focus is in the pathogenesis and treatment of schizophrenia. He has been published in such periodicals as Biological Psychiatry and Archives of General Psychiatry.
He has received numerous awards, including the Ziskind-Somerfield Award from the Society of Biological Psychiatry this year and the American Psychiatric Association Award in Psychiatry in 1998.
He earned his medical degree at George Washington School of Medicine.
The Foundation of Hope in Raleigh established the Thad and Alice Eure Distinguished Research Professorship in Psychiatry in 1999. The foundation was established in memory of Thad and Alice Eure.
The Eures co-founded a variety of restaurants, including the Angus Barn, the Darryl's restaurant chain, the 42nd Street Oyster Bar and the Border Cafe. The two met while both were in school at Carolina in the 1950s. They were both advocates of mental health programs and began the Foundation of Hope in 1984.
Thad Eure Jr. was the son of Thad Eure Sr., the former secretary of state for North Carolina.
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