Dr. Robert D. Latzman is Senior Director, Translational Medicine - CNS, Early Phase Development and Translational Medicine at Otsuka Pharmaceutical. He was previously Scientific Director, Global Clinical Sciences in the Neuroscience Therapeutic Area at Takeda Pharmaceuticals and formerly Associate Professor in the Departments of Psychology and Neuroscience at Georgia State University. He was the former co-chair of the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) Consortium's Neurobiological Foundations workgroup and Associate Editor at the Journal of Personality Disorders and Journal of Personality Assessment. Dr. Latzman received a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Iowa and a B.S. in Human Development with Honors from Cornell University. He completed a predoctoral clinical child/pediatric neuropsychology internship (residency) and a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. He has received a number of recognitions including the J.S. Tanaka Award from the Association for Research in Personality and was selected as a “Face of the Future” by the Society for Research in Psychopathology. He is the author of more than 175 scholarly articles and book chapters, investigating both human and nonhuman primate subjects.
Christopher J. Patrick is a Distinguished Research Professor of Clinical Psychology at Florida State University (FSU) and Director of FSU’s Clinical PhD program. His scholarly interests include psychopathy, antisocial behavior, substance abuse, personality, fear and fearlessness, psychophysiology, and affective and cognitive neuroscience. He is author of more than 370 articles and book chapters, and Editor of the Handbook of Psychopathy (Guilford Press, 2006; 2nd ed., 2018). Dr. Patrick is a Past President of both the Society for Scientific Study of Psychopathy (SSSP) and the Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR), a recipient of Early Career awards from SPR (1995) and the American Psychological Association (APA; 1993), and recipient of Lifetime Career Contribution awards from both SSSP (2013) and SPR (2023). He is also a Fellow of APA and of the Association for Psychological Science. He served in 2010 as a Workgroup Member for the National Institute of Mental Health’s Research Diagnostic Criteria (RDoC) initiative, and from 2008-2013 as a Scientific Advisor to the DSM-5 Personality and Personality Disorders (PPD) Work Group. He is currently a member of the American Psychiatric Association’s DSM-5 Review Committee for Externalizing Disorders and Personality Disorders, and a member of the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) Consortium.