Jonathan Cole

Jonathan Otis Cole was an American psychiatrist and the former chief of psychopharmacology at McLean Hospital. He was considered to be the “father of clinical psychopharmacology in the United States [...] internationally known for his breakthrough research on the use of drugs to treat psychiatric illnesses.”

The Cole Resource Center at McLean Hospital is named in his honor and he was the founder of the Manic-Depressive & Depressive Association (MDDA)-Boston.

Cole, the first director of the psychopharmacology research branch at the National Institute of Mental Health, died May 26, 2009, due to renal disease complications in Boston.

From 1967 until 1973, he was a psychiatrist and Superintendent at the Boston State Hospital. He was secretary of the International College of Neuropsychopharmacology (CINP) from 1966 until 1969 and was awarded the CINP, Pioneers in Psychopharmacology Award in 2002.