Dr. Elizabeth Bromley is a postdoctoral fellow in the Semel Institute's Health Services Research Center. She is a psychiatrist who trained at UCSF and Columbia University, and she was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar from 2004 to 2006. Dr. Bromley currently holds a MA in the History of Health Sciences and is completing a PhD in Sociocultural Anthropology in the UCLA Department of Anthropology. She currently receives funding from the Foundation for Psychocultural Research, a private foundation that sponsors interdisciplinary research and training opportunities at UCLA. In addition, Dr. Bromley is a part-time attending psychiatrist at the West Los Angeles VA Mental Health Intensive Case Management Program, an outpatient treatment program for veterans with severe mental illnesses.

Dr. Bromley’s interests include the social studies of science, particularly the relationship between neuroscience research and psychiatric practice. She has examined the first uses of amphetamines for children and the history of somatic concepts of misbehavior. For the past four years, she has conducted an evaluation of the development of cognitive medications for schizophrenia. Her research focuses on how laboratory-based constructs might inform psychiatric prescribing, and how the neuroscience of schizophrenia changes views about individuals with psychiatric disabilities. She is beginning an ethnography of urban daily life with individuals with schizophrenia. With Dr. Braslow, she co-teaches a course for psychiatry residents on the culture and history of psychiatry.