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Susan L. McElroy, MD, is Lindner Center of HOPE’s Chief Research Officer and Professor of

Psychiatry and Neuroscience for University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.

Armed with research and compassion, doctors and of Medicine, and through collaboration, the two
specialists at Lindner Center of HOPE work every institutions are advancing research in a variety of
day to educate patients and their families about fields directly connected with mental disorders,
what is going on in their world when it comes including genetics, psychotherapy, and health service
to mental illness. The caregivers and staff of the delivery. The Center has a dedicated research arm
Center recognize that every person and every family called the Research Institute at Lindner Center
comes to the Center with unique circumstances, of HOPE, which boasts a staff of nationally and
and that mental disorders can impact people very internationally respected clinician-scientists.
differently. One of the tenets of practice at the Collectively, the research team has received more
Center is the acknowledgment and appreciation than 50 grants totaling close to $4 million and has
that the individual who has a mental disorder is not been instrumental in bringing no fewer than five
the only person who suffers—a whole family can be new drugs to market to treat bipolar disorder.
impacted. And, in that same manner, treatment and

support requires the ongoing collaboration of the “Part of the vision of Lindner Center of HOPE
patient, their family and their network of caregivers was to focus on research,” said of the Center’s

and doctors. Chief Research Officer, Dr. Susan McElroy, an

internationally known researcher in the fields of

Lindner Center of HOPE’s approach to ‘patient- bipolar disorder, eating disorders, obesity, impulse
centered’ care takes the treatment of mental control and pharmacology. “The main reason we
disorders to a new level, particularly through its have such an emphasis on research is that it helps us
partnerships with leading health organizations and translate what we find in the lab directly to how we
its focus on research. Lindner Center of HOPE is treat our patients.”

affiliated with the University of Cincinnati College

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