Personnel
Lorrin M. Koran, M.D.
Dr. Lorrin Koran is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at Stanford University Medical Center. After an illustrious career in research and patient care, including many years as director of the OCD Clinic, Dr. Koran is now fully retired from clinical practice. However, he still gives generously of his time to the clinic, consulting with faculty and trainees and helping design research studies.
Elias Aboujaoude, M.D., M.A.
Dr. Elias Aboujaoude is the Director of the OCD Clinic and the Impulse Control Disorders Clinic at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He received a BS in Molecular and Cell Biology and a BA in French Literature from the University of California at Berkeley. He then went on to complete his MD and an MA in Comparative Literature at Stanford University, where he also completed his residency in Psychiatry. In the OCD Research Program, Dr. Aboujaoude has seen patients for studies on depression, dysthymia, anxiety, pathological gambling and OCD. He is the author of two books: Compulsive Acts: A Psychiatrist's Tales of Ritual and Obsession and the forthcoming Virtually You: The Dangerous Powers of the E-Personality. Dr. Aboujaoude also co-edited the book Impulse Control Disorders.
Allen Ringold, M.D.
Dr. Allen Ringold graduated from Tulane University School of Medicine and completed a Residency in Internal Medicine at Stanford and a Residency in Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania. Since 1969 he has been in the private practice of psychiatry in Palo Alto and on the Clinical Faculty at Stanford Medical School where he has the position of Clinical Professor of Psychiatry. Dr. Ringold has been an investigator in the use of Anafranil in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and a co-investigator in the use of Prozac and Zoloft in the treatment of OCD. He is a Supervisor in the Stanford OCD clinic, a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, and serves as an Examiner for the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.
