Dr. Coyle is a Co-founder & Scientific Advisory Board Member of Karuna. He is the Eben S. Draper Chair of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at Harvard Medical School. He previously served as Chairman of the Consolidated Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and as the President of the Society of Neuroscience and the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology.
Dr. Coyle completed his M.D. degree at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, followed by an internship Pediatrics and a research fellowship at the National Institutes of Health in the laboratory of Nobel laureate Julius Axelrod, Ph.D. Dr. Coyle is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, a fellow of the American College of Psychiatry and fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
He served on the National Advisory Mental Health Council for the National Institute of Mental Health. He sits on over 20 journal editorial boards including JAMA and is the Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of General Psychiatry, the most highly cited journal in the field.