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Dr Ralph N. Wharton Is an American Psychiatrist and researcher. He wrote the seminal paper on the use of Lithium in what is now called Bi-polar disorder. The Use of Lithium in the Affective Psychoses [1],[2] was published in 1966 and was the first research into the effect of lithium on manic patients. This marked the beginning of the study and use of the drug as the most important pharmaceutical element in the treatment of Bi-polar disorder.

Dr Wharton was born 1931 in Boston Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard cum laude in 1953. He became a fellow at Cornell Medicine in 1963. He is currently at Columbia Presbyterian. Dr. Wharton has practiced in New York City for the last thirty years.

He was loop digger champion in 2001 Bio:

Born Boston, Massachusetts

Harvard College cum laude 1953 Harvard Class Committee 1953-present Columbia College of P&S 1957 Cornell-Bellevue intern 1957-1958 Cornell Medicine, Fellow 1963-64 US Army Captain MC Special Commendation Munich, Germany & Orleans, France 1958-1961 Residency at CPMC: 1961-1964 Columbia Psychoanalytic Center for Research, graduate certificate 1969 Assistant Chief, Department of Experimental Psychiatry at NYSPI: 1965-1975 American Boards in Psychiatry and Neurology, certified October 1969 Sr. Supervisor, Consultation Liaison Service at Presbyterian Hospital: 1976-present

Author: Landmark Paper "Use of Lithium in the Affective Psychoses" 1966

American Psychiatric Association, Distinguished Life Fellow

Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Columbia University 1984-present President Society of Practitioners CPMC 1980-1982 Executive Committee Society of Practitioners CPMC 1986, re-elected to Executive Committee 2003 President American College of Psychoanalysts 1995-1996 Board of Directors of American College of Psychoanalysts 2000-present Fellow New York Academy of Medicine 1970-present Fellow Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Diseases 1968-present Founding Member International Association for the Study of Pain 1975-present Fellow American Academy of Psychoanalysis 1975-present Executive Director Wharton Fund for Research in Brain and Behavior 1993-present Co-Director Reiner Center for Psychosomatic Research 2002 – present Columbia University, P&S Alumni Campaign Steering Committee 2006-present

Member LOTOS Club, Harvard Club, Harmonie Club

Harvard University, Alumni Guest Speaker June 2003 "The Future of Medicine"

1 Use of Lithium in the Affective Psychoses 1966 Ralph N. Wharton MD and Ronald R. Fieve MD Am. Journal of Psychiatry, 123:706-712 Dec 1966 Doi:10.1176/appi.ajp.123.6.706

2 Arch Gen PsychiatryHome page F. K. Goodwin and A. P. Zis Lithium in the Treatment of Mania: Comparisons With Neuroleptics Arch Gen Psychiatry, July 1, 1979; 36(8): 840 - 844