Career Development Institute for Psychiatry
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Jordan F. Karp, MD

Jordan Karp, MD, is the Department Chair, Professor of Psychiatry, and Medical Director for Behavioral Health Technology. He is an expert in the fields of geriatric psychiatry, depression treatment, and suicide prevention. 

Prior to joining the University of Arizona, Dr. Karp served as a professor of psychiatry, anesthesiology, and clinical and translational science at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, where he directed the Late-Life Depression Prevention and Treatment Research Program, served as Director of Medical Student Mental Health Services, and was program director for the geriatric psychiatry fellowship.

Dr. Karp has authored more than 140 peer reviewed publications and has been continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP), and the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation (BBRF) since 2006.

Positions

  • Chair, Psychiatry, the University of Arizona Health Sciences, College of Medicine
  • Member of the Graduate Faculty, the University of Arizona Health Sciences, College of Medicine
  • Professor, Psychiatry

Education & Training

  • MD, 1998, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
  • Psychiatry Residency, 2002, Columbia Presbyterian/New York State Psychiatric Institute
  • Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship, 2003, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center