Pamela Sklar, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Pamela Sklar

American psychiatrist and neuroscientist

Date of Birth: 20-Jul-1959

Place of Birth: Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Date of Death: 20-Nov-2017

Profession: psychiatrist, neuroscientist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Pamela Sklar (born July 20, 1959 in Baltimore, Maryland - died November 20, 2017 in New York City) was an American psychiatrist and neuroscientist.
She was Chair of the Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences and professor of psychiatry, neuroscience, and genetic and genomic sciences at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
She was also chief of the Division of Psychiatric Genomics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
Sklar is known for her large-scale gene discovery studies in bipolar disorder and schizophrenia and for making some of the first statistically meaningful gene identifications in both mental illnesses.