Hilary P. Blumberg, MD is a psychiatrist, the John and Hope Furth Professor of Psychiatric Neuroscience, Professor of Psychiatry, Radiology and Biomedical Imaging and in the Child Center, and Director of the Mood Disorders Research Program, at the Yale School of Medicine. Her work is devoted to understanding the causes of mood disorder and related disorders and of suicide risk across the lifespan and generating new early detection and intervention approaches. Her research program focuses on translational investigative approaches integrating multimodal neuroimaging research with genetic, stem cell, behavioral and clinical trial research to identify brain circuitry differences and generate strategies to target them for early detection, interventions, and prevention. She leads international neuroimaging efforts to study bipolar and other mood disorders and suicide risk from childhood to older adulthood. She has published many seminal papers on bipolar disorder and suicide, and she has received numerous awards, including the International Society of Bipolar Disorders Mogens Schou Award for Research in Bipolar Disorder, Brain and Behavior Research Foundation Colvin Prize for research in mood disorders, American Psychiatric Association Blanche F. Ittleson Award for research in children and adolescents, and American College of Physicians Award for mood disorders. She studied neuroscience as an undergraduate at Harvard University graduating summa cum laude, and completed her medical degree, and psychiatry and specialty training in neuroimaging, at Cornell University Medical College prior to joining Yale’s faculty in 1998.