William B. Lawson
American professor and psychiatrist
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Early life
Lawson grew up on a farm in West Point, Virginia.
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Education
Lawson earned his PhD in psychology from the University of New Hampshire. He then went on to earn his medical degree from the Pritzker School of Medicine at the University of Chicago and finished a residency in adult psychiatry at Stanford University. He then finished a fellowship in psychopharmacology at the National Institute of Mental Health.
Career and research
Lawson has been a professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana, University of California, Irvine, Vanderbilt University, University of Arkansas, Howard University, and Huston–Tillotson University. He also was a professor and Associate Dean of Health Disparities at Dell Medical School.
While at Howard University, Lawson oversaw a partnership between the university and the island of Bermuda. Howard University provided psychiatry consultation services to the island.
In 2015, Lawson served as the editor in chief of the Journal of the National Medical Association.
His research is focused on mental health and substance abuse disparities.
Books
Lawson's writings on bipolar disorder in African Americans was published in Perspectives in Cross-cultural Psychiatry.