Alexander Bystritsky, M.D., Ph.D.
ADVISORY BOARD; EXECUTIVE EMERITUS
Alexander Bystritsky, MD, PhD is a member of Tiny Blue Dot Foundation’s advisory board.
Dr. Bystritsky graduated from St. Petersburg’s Pavlov Medical Institute (USSR), first with a medical degree and then a Ph.D. in Pharmacology. He was also a successful songwriter, winning several prominent underground song festivals. After a residency with NYU-Belleview, Bystritsky joined the UCLA faculty, where he is currently a Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences in the Jane and Terry Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior where he founded and directed for over 30 years the Anxiety Disorders Program and Targeted Brain Stimulation Program.
Dr. Bystritsky has published over 240 peer-reviewed papers, book chapters, and short publications and has served as the PI and co-PI on several grants. His honors include the OCD Foundation Research Award and the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation Distinguished Investigator Award. His academic achievements include founding the first OCD partial hospitalization in the USA, conducting the first study of fMRI-based rTMS treatment of anxiety, co-initiating the CALM study (the largest therapy study of anxiety in primary care), and inventing the Low Intensity Focused Ultrasound Pulse (a non-invasive method of brain stimulation for mental and neurological disorders). He has authored several brain stimulation patents.
Dr. Bystritsky has been listed among the Best Doctors in America for the last 20 years and continues to practice. He is the CEO of Brainsonix Corporation and the President of the Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies. He still writes songs and poetry, in both English and Russian.