Steven Rasmussen

{{short description|American psychiatrist}}

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Steven Alan Rasmussen is an American psychiatrist, best known for his research on the course and treatment of obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD).{{Cite web |title=Steven A Rasmussen |url=https://vivo.brown.edu/display/srasmuss#All |access-date=April 27, 2025 |website=Researcers@Brown |publisher=Brown University}} He is currently the Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University.

A member of the second graduating class of the Program in Liberal Medical Education, Rasmussen earned his Master of Medical Sciences and Doctor of Medicine degrees from Brown University in 1977. He completed his residency in psychiatry at Yale University in 1983.

Rasmussen joined the Brown faculty in 1983 and served as the Medical Director of Butler Hospital from 1998 to 2012. In 2013, he was appointed the Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the Alpert Medical School in Brown University.{{Cite web |year=2013 |title=Steven Rasmussen |url=https://medicine.yale.edu/news/yale-medicine-magazine/article/steven-rasmussen/ |access-date=2025-04-27 |website=Yale Medicine Magazine |language=en}} He is a member of the Society for Neuroscience, the American Psychiatric Association, and Sigma Xi.

Rasmussen's research primarily focuses on obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) and neuromodulatory treatments for psychiatric disorders. By July 2018, Rasmussen's original article on the Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale was the most cited paper on OCD.{{Cite journal |last=Goodman |first=Wayne K. |author-link=Wayne Goodman |last2=Rasmussen |first2=Steven |author-link2=Steven Rasmussen |last3=Mazure |first3=Carolyn |author-link3=Carolyn M. Mazure |date=1989-11-01 |title=The Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale: I. Development, Use, and Reliability |url=http://archpsyc.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?doi=10.1001/archpsyc.1989.01810110048007 |journal=Archives of General Psychiatry |language=en |volume=46 |issue=11 |pages=1006 |doi=10.1001/archpsyc.1989.01810110048007 |issn=0003-990X|url-access=subscription }}{{Cite journal |last=Parmar |first=Arpit |last2=Ganesh |first2=Ragul |last3=Mishra |first3=Ashwani Kumar |date=April 2019 |title=The top 100 cited articles on Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD): A citation analysis |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1876201818311377 |journal=Asian Journal of Psychiatry |language=en |volume=42 |pages=34–41 |doi=10.1016/j.ajp.2019.03.025|url-access=subscription }}

Rasmussen has received several awards and honors for his work. In 2001, the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) honored Rasmussen with an Exemplary Psychiatrist Award.{{Cite web |date=May 8, 2001 |title=NAMI Recognizes America’s Exemplary Psychiatrists Awards Presented During APA Convention |url=https://www.nami.org/press-releases/nami-recognizes-americas-exemplary-psychiatrists-awards-presented-during-apa-convention/ |access-date=2025-04-27 |website=NAMI |language=en}} The Leksell Society presented him the Pioneer in Radiosurgery Award in 2006.{{Cite press release |title=ELEKTA SEES RECORD ATTENDANCE AND RECORD NUMBER OF SUBMITTED ABSTRACTS AT INTERNATIONAL LEKSELL GAMMA KNIFE® SOCIETY MEETING IN QUEBEC, CANADA |date=May 21, 2008 |publisher=Elekta |url=https://ir.elekta.com/investors/press-releases/2008/elekta-sees-record-attendance-and-record-number-of-submitted-abstracts-at-international-leksell-gamma-knife-society-meeting-in-quebec-canada/}}