James Gilligan

• Collegiate Professor, School of Arts and Science
  New York University

1957, graduate, Harvard College; 1965, MD, Western Reserve University School of Medicine. 1966-2002, Faculty, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; 1993-94, Visiting Fellow, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge; 2003-06, Visiting Professor of Psychiatry and Social Policy, University of Pennsylvania; since 2006, current position. Since 1991, President, Center for the Study of Violence; 1999-2001, President, International Association for Forensic Psychotherapy. Author: Violence - Reflections on a National Epidemic; Preventing Violence. Recipient of Achievement Award, Physicians for Social Responsibility (2003). Expertise: causes and prevention of violence.