Dr. Stephen M. Stahl has held faculty positions at Stanford University, the University of California at Los Angeles, the Institute of Psychiatry London, the Institute of Neurology London, and, currently, at the University of California at San Diego. Recently, Dr. Stahl was elected an Honorary Visiting Senior Fellow in the Department of Psychiatry and a Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall at the University of Cambridge in the UK. Dr. Stahl was also Executive Director of Clinical Neurosciences at the Merck Neuroscience Research Center in the UK for several years. Dr. Stahl's major interests are dedicated to producing and disseminating educational information about diseases and their treatments in psychiatry and neurology, with a special emphasis on multimedia, the internet, and teaching how to teach.

Dr. Stahl has conducted numerous research projects during his career awarded by the National Institute of Mental Health, by the Veterans Administration and by the pharmaceutical industry. Author of over 425 articles and chapters, and more than 1500 scientific presentations and abstracts, Dr. Stahl is an internationally recognized clinician, researcher, and teacher in psychiatry with subspecialty expertise in psychopharmacology. Dr. Stahl has edited five books and written 25 others, of which hundreds of thousands have been sold, including the best-selling textbook Stahl's Essential Psychopharmacology, now in its third edition, and the best-selling clinical manual Stahl's Essential Psychopharmacology Prescriber's Guide, now in its fourth edition, winner of the British Medical Association's Pharmacology Book of the Year award.