Professor Alexander Bystritsky, MD, PhD is a psychiatrist at Camden Center where he oversees our rTMS treatment program and is a clinical staff member of our OCD Program.

Dr. Bystritsky has been a faculty member of the UCLA Department of Psychiatry since 1987 where he is currently Professor Emeritus. During his tenure at UCLA, he founded and directed the award winning UCLA Anxiety Disorders Program and oversaw multiple seminal research projects. Dr. Bystritsky has published over 260 peer reviewed papers, book chapters, and short publications, and has served as the Principal Investigator on several National Institute of Health sponsored grants.

He has earned many academic honors and awards including the OCD Foundation Research Award and the Brain and Behavior Distinguished Investigator Award. Dr. Bystritsky has also served as a Visiting Professor at Harvard Medical School. He has pioneered the research and development of multiple neuromodulation technologies including image-guided deep brain stimulation, rTMS, Low Intensity Focused Ultrasound Pulsation (LIFUP), and other neuromodulation techniques for use in anxiety disorders within the department of Neurology and Neurosurgery at UCLA.

Dr. Bystristsky has authored several patents on image-guided neuromodulation using LIFUP. Dr. Bystritsky is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and the American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology.