| Theodore Reich | |
| Birth Date: | 14 October 1938 |
| Birth Place: | Montreal, Quebec |
| Death Place: | St. Louis, Missouri, U.S |
| Citizenship: | United States |
| Fields: | Psychiatric genetics |
| Workplaces: | Washington University in St. Louis |
| Alma Mater: | McGill University |
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Theodore Reich (October 14, 1938 – December 25, 2003) was a Canadian-American professor of psychiatry and genetics at the Washington University School of Medicine.[1] Reich is considered one of the founders of modern psychiatric genetics and mostly studied the genetic aspects of mental illness.[2] [3] [4]
He was a founder and president of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics and received the organisation's Lifetime Achievement Award in 1999.[2]
Reich earned a bachelor's degree in honors physiology in 1959 and completed a medical degree at McGill in 1963.