Daniel Wolf, MD, PhD

Dr. Wolf is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry with tenure at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. His research focuses on the neural mechanisms of emotional and motivational abnormalities across psychiatric disorders particularly psychotic disorders and in youth at risk for psychosis. He employs functional neuroimaging (fMRI), behavioral neuroeconomic paradigms, and pharmacological challenges in his work. He has been funded by NIMH via a K23 Career Development Award, a completed R01 and an ongoing R01, and has also received a number of smaller foundation awards, including a NARSAD Young Investigator Award, and the APIRE-AstraZeneca Young Minds in Psychiatry Award. He has served multiple times as an ad hoc member of NIMH review panels. He also works as an outpatient attending psychiatrist, teaching residents and medical students how to provide longitudinal care to individuals with psychotic disorders. He also actively mentors postdocs, graduate students, and junior faculty at the University of Pennsylvania, providing advice and support in their efforts to publish papers and apply for grants, and is the Associate Director of a T32 program and Director of the Penn Clinical Neurosciences Training Program. Dr. Wolf grew up in Los Angeles, completed undergraduate work at Harvard College, MD-PhD training at Yale University, psychiatry residency at MGH-McLean, and neuropsychiatry fellowship at UPenn. Outside of work he focuses on spending time with his wife and three children.