Point of Care Biomarker for Improving Near-Term Suicide Risk Estimation

Sponsored by the Ewald W. Busse, MD, ScD Lectureship Endowment Fund Dr. McCall presently is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Health Behavior at Medical College of Georgia (MCG). Dr. McCall served as the Case Distinguished University Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Health Behavior at MCG at Augusta University from 2012-2024. He also served as Executive Vice Dean and Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs for MCG. He completed his undergraduate degree, medical degree and post-graduate psychiatric training at Duke University. He completed a Master's degree in Epidemiology from Wake Forest University. He is board certified in general psychiatry, geriatric psychiatry, and sleep medicine. His research interests include depression, electroconvulsive therapy, quality of life, insomnia, suicide, and the autonomic nervous system. He received 22 years of research support from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) through 2024 and is now site principal investigator for a new 5-year NIMH award on the topic of insomnia and suicide. He has more than 600 published items, including 290 peer-reviewed journal articles, with a Google Scholar H-index of 68. His papers in the American Journal of Psychiatry were twice picked by the Editors as among 7 "most interesting and important papers" published in that journal for the years 2017 and 2019. In 2023 he was ranked among the top 14 psychiatrists in the world, and the top 5 psychiatrists in the USA over the prior 10 years for scholarship on the topic of suicide.