Video: No Stone Unturned in Mental Health Research
What inspires Doug Williamson, MD, Lundbeck’s Chief Medical Officer and Vice President, US Medical, to persist in the pursuit of new treatments for mental health disorders? The patients, and the intensely personal connection he feels to people affected by mental health disorders.
“Working as a psychiatrist, more than any other branch of medicine, involves putting a little bit of yourself into the relationship,” he says in this video about the biopharmaceutical industry’s commitment to mental health research. “I’m fighting for people whose lives would otherwise be devastated by mental health disorders.”
Watch the full video below.
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