Wei Du, MD
Dr. Wei Du is a professor and academic chair of the Department of Psychiatry in the College of Medicine at Drexel University and chair of the Department of Academic Medicine at Tower Health. Dr. Du also holds a secondary appointment as professor in the Department of Pharmacology & Physiology at the College of Medicine.
He is the former director of the General Adult Psychiatry Residency program at Drexel University College of Medicine. He has won the Teacher of the Year Award in the department in 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012. He provides lectures on psychopharmacology of depression and anxiety, and serves on the graduate student thesis committee.
Dr. Du is also involved in medical student education, providing lectures on schizophrenia, and neurobiology of depression and anxiety. He began a two-year term as the secretary of the Philadelphia Psychiatric Society in 2018.