Daniel German Blazer (born February 23, 1944, in Nashville, Tennessee)[1] is the J.P. Gibbons Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus at Duke University School of Medicine.
After graduating from Cohn High School in 1962, Blazer received his bachelor's degree from Vanderbilt University in 1965.
He became the J.P. Gibbons Professor of Psychiatry at Duke University School of Medicine in 1990.
[2] Blazer is known for researching the epidemiology of depression, substance use disorders,[3] and the occurrence of suicide among the elderly.
[5] Blazer was elected into the Institute of Medicine in 1995,[6] and received their Distinguished Service Medal in 2014.