Prof. Robert Bransfield

Dr. Robert C. Bransfield, MD, DLFAPA, graduated from Rutgers College and George Washington University School of Medicine. His residency training was at Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital. He is board-certified in Psychiatry and is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association (APA). Dr. Bransfield is the Past President of ILADS, the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Educational Foundation and the New Jersey Psychiatric Association. He has held a number of administrative positions with hospitals and organizations involved in health, mental health and community-related activities and has received multiple awards from the APA and ILADS, including the Pioneer Award. He is a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Rutgers RWJ Medical School and the Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine. Dr. Bransfield’s clinical activities have focused upon treating patients who are considered to be treatment-resistant. Many of these patients were found to have infectious disease contributors to their psychiatric symptoms. As a result, his research has often focused upon the association between infectious disease and mental illness. Dr. Bransfield has authored and co-authored a number of publications in peer-reviewed and other literature and has been active in political advocacy on an international, national, state and local level. Keywords: Lyme disease, microbes and mental illness, psychopharmacology.