Tyrone Cannon, PhD, Clark L. Hull Professor of Psychology and Professor of Psychiatry, has been appointed Chair of the Department of Psychology at Yale University.
Cannon’s term will be for three years effective July 1, 2019. He succeeds outgoing Chair Frank Keil, PhD, Charles C. & Dorathea S. Dilley Professor of Psychology and Linguistics.
Cannon directs the Clinical Neuroscience Laboratory in the Department of Psychology. The primary goals of the laboratory are to elucidate genetic, neural, and behavioral mechanisms underlying psychotic forms of mental illness — principally schizophrenia and bipolar disorder — and to develop effective intervention and prevention strategies targeting these mechanisms.
A graduate of Dartmouth College, Cannon earned his PhD in psychology from the University of Southern California. He began his teaching career at the University of Pennsylvania before serving as the Staglin Family Professor of Major Mental Illness at the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA). At UCLA, Cannon was also director of the Staglin Center for the Assessment and Prevention of Prodromal States and the Staglin Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, both based in the Semel Institute of Neuroscience and Human Behavior at the Geffen School of Medicine. He joined the Yale faculty in 2012 as a professor of psychology and of psychiatry.
He has published more than 315 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and scholarly monographs, and has received awards for his research and teaching. He is an elected Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science.