Primary Job Title Vice President & Secretary Primary Organization 
The Lemelson Foundation
Location Los Angeles, California, United States Regions Greater Los Angeles Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Male
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Robert Lemelson, Ph.D., is co-Vice President and Secretary of The Lemelson Foundation.
Rob is an anthropologist who received his M.A. from the University of Chicago, and Ph.D. from the Department of Anthropology, UCLA. .
He was a Fulbright scholar in Indonesia in 1996-1997, has conducted research for the World Health Organization, and is
additionally trained as a clinical psychologist. His area of specialty is Southeast-Asian Studies, psychological anthropology and transcultural psychiatry.
He is currently a research anthropologist at the Semel Institute of Neuroscience at UCLA He is also the president and founder of The Foundation for Psychocultural Research, a non-profit research foundation supporting research and training in the neurosciences and social sciences. In addition, Dr. Lemelson is the director of Elemental Productions, a documentary film production company.
