Lynn DeLisi

Education and career

DeLisi earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and her M.D. from the Medical College of Pennsylvania. She worked at the National Institute of Mental Health in their intramural research program until 1987, when she became a professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She became a professor of psychiatry at the New York University School of Medicine and Associate Director of the Center for Advanced Brain Imaging at the Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research in 2001. She held both of these positions until 2009, when she began working at the Boston VA and Harvard. In November 2019 she moved to Cambridge Health Alliance and is Attending Psychiatrist on the acute inpatient service of Cambridge Hospital. Her career and life's work is featured in the NY Times best seller book by Robert Kolker, Hidden Valley Road.