Charles Marmar, MD

Charles Marmar, M.D., is Vice Chair and Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco. He is also Associate Chief of Staff for Mental Health, San Francisco VA Medical Center. He completed his psychiatry residency at the University of Toronto, and a research fellowship in psychiatry and traumatic stress at the University of California, San Francisco.

Dr. Marmar's current studies include a five-year prospective study of posttraumatic stress in police officers in three American cities, a randomized controlled trial of cognitive behavior therapy for rescue workers who responded to the WTC attacks, a logitudinal study of 747 New York and Bay Area police officers assessed before and after 9/11, a clinical trial of guanfacine for chronic combat PTSD, and an open trial off luvoxamine in female rape survivors. Dr. Marmar and his colleagues are studying electrophysiological abnormalities and hippocampal structure and function in individuals with PTSD, and studies of the relationship of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis activity with polysomnography in PTSD.

Dr. Marmar's research has been supported by the NIMH, Veterans Administration, and Upjohn, Solvay and Forest Pharmaceuticals.

N. Schuff, T.C. Neylan, M.A. Lenoci, A.T. Du, D.S. Weiss, C.R. Marmar, and M.W. Weiner. Decreased N-acetyl aspartate in the absence of atrophy in the hippocampus of posttraumatic stress disorder. Biological Psychiatry. 2001; 50: 952-959

C.R. Marmar, T.C. Neylan, F.B. Schoenfeld. Advances in the psychopharmacology of posttraumatic stress disorder. The Economics of Neuroscience. 2001; 3: 64-69.

N. Pole, S.R. Best, D.S. Weiss, T.J. Metzler, A.M. Liberman, J. Fagan, and C.R. Marmar. Effects of gender and ethnicity on duty-related posttraumatic stress symptoms among urban police officers. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease. 2001; 189:442-448.