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| David W. Abbott is an Associate Professor and Director of the Psychiatry Residency Training Program in the Department of Neuroscience at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences. Originally from Fargo-Moorhead, Dr. Abbott received his B.A. from Concordia College in Moorhead, Minn., and his M.D. from Tulane University in New Orleans, LA. He completed his psychiatry residency training at Tulane and the University of Minnesota. He has practiced in various capacities in Fargo since 1977 and has been a member of the faculty of UND School of Medicine and Health Sciences since 1978. His clinical work focused for many years in eating disorders, an area in which he has also published. He is currently interested in evolutionary psychology and psychiatry. One of the original planners of the residency program, he has been its director since 1995. | |