Patrick W. Corrigan

Patrick W. Corrigan, PsyD, is Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Previously, he was Professor of Psychiatry and Executive Director of the Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation at the University of Chicago. Dr. Corrigan has spent most of his career providing and evaluating services for people with psychiatric disabilities. He has served as principal investigator of the National Consortium on Stigma and Empowerment and led the team that developed the Honest, Open, Proud program. In addition to the impact of stigma on psychiatric disabilities and rehabilitation, his research interests center on the role of social determinants of health such as ethnicity, gender identity, poverty, and criminal justice involvement. The author of more than 450 journal articles and 20 books, Dr. Corrigan is editor of the journal Stigma and Health.