Nelson Bruce Freimer MD
Director, Biological Samples Processing Core (BSPC); Center for Neurobehavioral Genetics; Informatics Center for Neurogenetics and Neurogenomics (ICNN); Southern California Genotyping Consortium (SCGC); Professor, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences; Me, UCLA School of Medicine
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300 Medical PlzLos Angeles, CA 90095
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Education & Training
University of California (San Francisco)Residency, Psychiatry, 1983 - 1987
Yale-New Haven Medical CenterInternship, Transitional Year, 1982 - 1983
Ohio State University College of MedicineClass of 1982
Certifications & Licensure
CA State Medical License 1984 - 2026
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Psychiatry
Awards, Honors, & Recognition
- Maggie G. Gilbert Chair UCLA
Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- Large Language Models for Psychiatric Phenotype Extraction from Electronic Health Records.Clara Frydman-Gani, Alejandro Arias, Maria Perez Vallejo, John Daniel Londoño Martínez, Johanna Valencia-Echeverry
Medrxiv. 2025-08-12 - Human development, inequality, and their associations with brain structure across 29 countries.Vicente Medel, Luz M Alliende, Richard Bethlehem, Jakob Seidlitz, Grace Ringlein
European Psychiatry. 2025-07-16 - Characterisation of serious mental illness trajectories through transdiagnostic clinical features.Juan F De la Hoz, Alejandro Arias, Susan K Service, Mauricio Castaño, Ana M Díaz-Zuluaga
The British Journal of Psychiatry. 2025-06-23
Press Mentions
Apple Looks to Digital Biomarkers for Features Detecting Depression, Cognitive DeclineSeptember 22nd, 2021
While Modern Life May Exacerbate Depression, It May Also Give Us the Tools to Treat ItSeptember 12th, 2019
Study Identifies Genetic Differences That May Increase Risk of Obesity, DiabetesAugust 2nd, 2019- Join now to see all
Grant Support
- The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Severe Mental IllnessUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES2023–2026
- A Latin American biobank for large-scale genetics research on severe mental illnessUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES2020–2026
- 4/4 Powering Genetic Discovery for Severe Mental Illness in Latin American and African AncestriesUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES2020–2025
External Links
- Center for Neurobehavioral Geneticshttp://www.semel.ucla.edu/neurogenetics
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