Philip D. Harvey, PhD is Leonard M. Miller Professor of Psychiatry and director of the Division of Psychology at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, as well as a senior Research health Scientist at the Department of Veterans Affairs. He started work at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine in July, 2010.
He has served on several National Academy of Medicine Panels and headed a blue-ribbon panel jointly launched by the Social Security Administration and the National Institute of Mental Health with a goal of streamlining the process of award of social security disability to people with severe mental illness.
He has received a number of awards, including the Inaugural Schizophrenia International Research Society Clinical Scientist Distinguished Contributions award (2012), the 2014 Alexander Gralnick Schizophrenia Research award from the American Psychiatric Foundation, and the 2014 John Blair Barnwell award, the highest award for Clinical Research across all scientific disciplines from the US Department of Veterans affairs, and the 2021 Stanley Dean Award for Schizophrenia research from the American College of Psychiatrists.
His research has focused for years on cognition and everyday functioning and he has written on cognition in aging, aging in schizophrenia, and interactions with serious mental illness, aging and technology. He also been studying the effects of cognitive enhancing agents and cognitive and functional skills training in various conditions, including healthy aging, mild cognitive impairment, schizophrenia, dementia, bipolar disorders, and traumatic brain injury. His most recent work has focused on technology-based momentary assessments, with a focus on negative symptoms and everyday activities in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
