Francis M. Mondimore was born in Philadelphia, where he graduated maxima cum laude from LaSalle College (now: University.) He attended the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore and completed a psychiatric residency at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he was chief resident.

He was the medical director of the Community Psychiatry Program of Francis Scott Key Medical Center (now: The Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center) for three years before relocating to Charlotte, North Carolina where he joined the staff of the Department of Psychiatry at the Carolinas Medical Center as associate medical director for the Billingsley Center for Mental Health. He returned to Baltimore in 1999, joining the Mood Disorders Center at Johns Hopkins.

He has been on the faculty of the University of Maryland, the University of North Carolina and is currently an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins.

Dr. Mondimore lives in Baltimore with his partner, Jay Allen Rubin. Frank and Jay enjoy sailing on the Chesapeake Bay, traveling and gardening. Frank is an enthusiastic opera aficionado and occasionally plays the piano.

Selected Publications:

Books:

Francis Mark Mondimore, M.D., Depression, The Mood Disease, 3rd edition (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006).

Francis Mark Mondimore, M.D., Bipolar Disorder: A Guide for Patients and Families, revised edition, (Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006).

Winner of “Ken” Book Award (first edition) for “outstanding books which have substantially contributed to the public’s awareness and better understanding of mental illness,” National Association for the Mentally Ill, New York, May 2000.

First edition translated into Portuguese (Climepsi Editores, Lisbon, 2004)

Francis Mark Mondimore, M.D., Adolescent Depression: A Guide for Parents (Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002).

Translated into Chinese (PsyGarden Publishing, Taiwan, 2005)

Francis Mark Mondimore, A Natural History of Homosexuality (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996).

Winner of CHOICE Award for “Outstanding Academic Books of 1997” by CHOICE, a publication of the Association of College and Research Libraries, January, 1998.

Translated into Spanish (Paidos Contextos, Barcelona, 1998), Turkish (Saral Yayinevi,Istanbul,1999), Lithuanian (Alk Eugrimas, Vilnius, 2000), Russian, (Publishing Center U-Faktoria, Yekaterinburg 2002), Croatian ( Izdanja Antibarbarus, Zagreb, 2003).

Book Chapters:

Francis Mark Mondimore, M.D. (contributor), “Medical Treatment of Mania,” “Medical Treatment of Depression,” and “Maintenance Treatment” in F.K. Goodwin and J.R. Jamison, Manic-Depressive Illness, 2nd Edition, (New York, Oxford University Press, 2007).

Francis Mark Mondimore, M.D., “Mood Disorders,” in Principles of Ambulatory Medicine, 6th Edition, eds. L. Randol Barker, John R. Burton, Philip D. Zieve (Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins, 2006).

Francis Mondimore and James Potash, “Genetic Approaches to Depression: Linkage Studies,” in Biology of Depression: From Novel Insights to Therapeutic Strategies, eds. J. Licinio and Ma-Li Wong (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2005).

Scientific Articles:

Francis M. Mondimore, Peter P. Zandi, Dean F. MacKinnon, Melvin G. McInnis, Erin B. Miller, Raymond P. Crowe, William A. Scheftner, Diana H. Marta, Myrna M. Weissman, Douglas F. Levinson, Kathleen P. Murphy-Eberenz, J. Raymond DePaulo, Jr. & James B. Potash, “Familial Aggregation of Illness Chronicity in Recurrent, Early-onset Major Depression Pedigrees,” American Journal of Psychiatry, 163:9 (2006) 1554-60.

Francis M. Mondimore, Peter P. Zandi, Dean F. MacKinnon, Melvin G. McInnis, Erin B. Miller, Raymond P. Crowe, William A. Scheftner, Myrna M. Weissman, Douglas F. Levinson, J. Raymond DePaulo, Jr. & James B. Potash, A comparison of the familiality of chronic depression in recurrent early-onset depression pedigrees using different definitions of chronicity. J Affect Disord. 2007 Jun;100(1-3):171-7.