Linda M. Brzustowicz, M.D.

Linda M. Brzustowicz, M.D.

Linda M. Brzustowicz, M.D., Professor and Chair, Department of Genetics, Human Genetics Institute of New Jersey, Life Sciences Building, 145 Bevier Road, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854.

Linda Brzustowicz received her A.B. in biochemistry and molecular biology from Harvard University (1982) and her M.D. from Columbia University (1987). After a pediatrics internship at Brown University's Rhode Island Hospital, she returned to Columbia University and completed residency training in psychiatry as well as postdoctoral training in molecular genetics and statistical genetics. She has been a faculty member at Rutgers University since 1994, running the Psychiatric Genetics Laboratory first at the Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience on the Newark Campus (1994-2001) and subsequently in the Department of Genetics on the Busch Campus where she is Professor and Chair.