The National Network of Depression Centers: progress through partnership.

John F. Greden, M.D., is the Executive Director of the University of Michigan Comprehensive Depression Center and Founder and Chair of the National Network of Depression Centers (NNDC). His academic activities include 28 years of NIH-funded projects studying major depressions and bipolar disorders, emphasizing biomarker and clinical correlates of depression and bipolar disorders over a patient’s lifetime. These include hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal (HPA), neuroimmune, sleep laboratory, and psychomotor measures; causes and interventions for Treatment Resistant Depression (TRD); and prevention of depressive recurrences. He served 22 years as Chair of the University of Michigan Department of Psychiatry, is the author or coauthor of 265 peer-reviewed publications or books, has given approximately 410 invited presentations, supervised 14 NIH ‘‘K’’ and Veterans Administration Career Development young investigator awardees, and continually seeks to promote translational themes to educate a new generation of clinical investigators. He served as Past President of the Society of Biological Psychiatry and the Psychiatric Research Society and as a Co-Editor of the Journal of Psychiatric Research for 7 years. In 2001, he founded and still directs the University of Michigan Comprehensive Depression Center, patterned after the nation’s Cancer Centers. In 2007, he led formation of the NNDC, which currently includes 22 of the nation’s leading academic medical centers and is the focus of this article.