Matthew Macaluso


Matthew Macaluso, D.O. is Professor of Psychiatry and Bee McWane Reid Endowed Chair in Mood Disorders at the University of Alabama at Birmingham-Heersink School of Medicine.

Early life and career

Matthew Macaluso graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Rutgers University. He earned his medical degree from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. Macaluso completed his residency training in psychiatry and fellowship in psychopharmacology research under Sheldon Preskorn, M.D. at the University of Kansas Medical Center in 2009.
From 2009 to 2020, Macaluso was on faculty at KUMC and served as director of residency training. Macaluso was also a founding leader of the KU-Wichita Center for Clinical Research. In 2020, Macaluso was recruited to UAB as Professor and Clinical Director of the UAB Depression and Suicide Center. In 2020, he was appointed by the Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama as Bee McWane Reid Endowed Chair in Mood Disorders. In 2022, Macaluso became Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs at UAB.
Macaluso has contributed most in the area of novel treatment development as well as psychopharmacology education. His work helps train clinicians on the process of developing new medication treatments, evaluating the literature and how to introduce new medications and devices into the treatment of their patients.

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