Paul Nestadt, MD

Professional Titles

• James Wah Professor 
• Clinical Director of the Johns Hopkins Anxiety Disorders Clinic

Primary Academic Title

Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Background

Centers and Institutes

• Bloomberg School of Public Health
• Gun Violence Solutions, Center for

Recent News Articles and Media Coverage

• Up to a third of opioid overdose deaths might be suicides, Johns Hopkins researcher concludes, Baltimore Sun (January 2020)

  Sharp Increase In Gun Suicides Signals Growing Public Health Crisis, NPR Morning Edition (July 2018)

  Guns Play Oversize Role in Rural Suicides New York Times (2017)

  The Capital Gazette Shooting: Perspectives on a Tragedy, Midday on WYPR (June 2018)

  Guns help explain difference in urban and rural suicide rates, Reuters (2017)

Research Interests

and Doubt, Firearms, Opiates, Suicide

Research Summary

Dr. Nestadt’s research focuses on the epidemiology of suicide. He is interested in the role of practical factors, such as firearm access and opiate use, in the risk of suicide death. His methodological expertise includes large scale regression based data analysis, post-mortem clinical evaluation, and evaluation of determination of manner of death. He also works with the OCD genetics group and the broader suicide prevention workgroup at Johns Hopkins.

Google Scholar

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=MwKqWasAAAAJ&hl=en

Selected Publications

• Nestadt PS*, Speed TJ*, Keefe FJ, Dimsdale JE. "Stress and psychiatry". In Kaplan and Sadock's comprehensive textbook of psychiatry, 10th ed., Edited by: Sadock BJ and Sadock VA. 2017. Philadelphia: Lippincott.

• Nestadt PS, Triplett P, Fowler DR, Mojtabai R. Urban–Rural Differences in Suicide in the State of Maryland: The Role of Firearms. American journal of public health. 2017 Oct;107(10):1548-53.

• Nestadt, P. S., Triplett, P., Mojtabai, R., & Berman, A. L. (2018). Universal screening may not prevent suicide. Gen Hosp Psychiatry. 2018 Jun 25. pii: S0163-8343(18)30066-5. doi: 10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2018.06.006. [Epub ahead of print]

• Haglund ME, aan het Rot M, Cooper NS, Nestadt PS, Muller D, Southwick SM, Charney DS. Resilience in the third year of medical school: a prospective study of the associations between stressful events occurring during clinical rotations and student well-being. Academic Medicine. 2009 Feb;84(2):258-68.

• Kim P*, Nestadt PS*, Peters M*, Speed T*, Depaulo JR, Bienvenu OJ. The Johns Hopkins Phipps Psychiatry Guide. Baltimore, MD: Unbound Medicine, 2014.? [Managing Editor]

Honors

• RFM Paper of the Year, Maryland Psychiatric Society, 5/1/18
• Young Investigator Travel Award, America Psychopathological Association, 5/1/18

Additional Training

• Psychiatric Epidemiology Fellowship, JHU Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD (2018)