Dr. Jess G. Fiedorowicz is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Epidemiology, and Internal Medicine at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine. He graduated summa cum laude from Marquette University and with Honors in Research from the Medical College of Wisconsin. He completed a medicine (transitional year) internship at St. Luke’s Hospital in Milwaukee, Wisconsin followed by a psychiatry residency at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he additionally served as a chief resident. He completed a fellowship in the Clinical Neurobiology of the Major Psychoses at the University of Iowa and concurrently completed an M.S. in Clinical Investigation. He also has a Ph.D. in Translational Biomedicine and a graduate certificate in biostatistics from the University of Iowa. He serves Director of the Mood Disorders Center at the University of Iowa and Editor-in-Chief of Elsevier’s Journal of Psychosomatic Research. His research focuses on the primary causes of excess mortality, suicide and vascular disease, in bipolar and other mood disorders.