Daniel J. Carlat, MD

For the last 15 years, Dr. Carlat has practiced psychiatry in a solo practice in a small town north of Boston. Also on the faculty of Tufts Medical School, he did his psychiatric training at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, and he edits The Carlat Psychiatry Report, a respected monthly newsletter that is read by thousands of psychiatrists across the country. His article for The New York Times Magazine, “Dr. Drug Rep” – a strikingly honest account of how he fell under the sway of a drug company’s all too compelling marketing pitch as a paid speaker and later quit – was selected for the Best Science Writing 2008 anthology.