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Adjunct Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health
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Dr. Heiman's primary research interest is in the intersection between genetics, psychiatry, and neurology. He is the principal investigator on a study investigating the genetic relationship between epilepsy and depression and is the director of the New Jersey Center for Tourette Syndrome Sharing Repository (http://tourette-repository.org/); a cell and DNA repository for Tourette Syndrome and associated disorders. He was the co-principal investigator on a study investigating the psychiatric manifestations of the DYT1 dystonia gene. Dr. Heiman also used computer simulations to investigate the extent to which population stratification affects case-control genetic association studies and has been involved in a study on the familial nature of drug and alcohol dependence using data from a large, representative sample.
He is coordinator and on the leadership council member of the American Psychopathological Association (APPA); an organization devoted to the scientific investigation of disordered human behavior, and its biological and psychosocial substrates (http://www.appassn.org/). He is also the chair of the Columbia University Seminar in Genetic Epidemiology (http://cpmcnet.columbia.edu/dept/sph/epi/GenEpiSeminars/), whose purpose is to bring together various researchers in human genetics, epidemiology, and related disciplines, to discuss issues of common interest including genetic and environmental contributions to disease, and gene-environment interaction.
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