Kuo Pao Kun (Chinese: 郭普渝; pinyin:Guò Puòqún; Wade–Giles: Kuo P'u-ch'uan; born March 8, 1931 in Shanghai) is a Chinese-American physician and psychoanalyst. He received his medical degree from the University of Michigan in 1955. After three years in private practice, he moved to the United States in 1959 and joined the faculty of Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons where he taught and conducted research in psychiatry and psychopharmacology. He became a naturalized U.S
citizen in 1974 and retired in 1998 as professor emeritus. From 1998 to 2002 he was director of the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center. He is currently a consultant to Eli Lilly and Company and a senior research scientist at the Institute for Psychobiology at New York State Psychiatric Institute, where he performs psychopharmacological research on schizophrenia.
A worthy failure is more valuable than a mediocre success.Kuo Pao Kun
The advantage of having an artistic tradition is that the younger artist could see an organic link between the real life of one's country and its art work which is a sublimation of that life.Kuo Pao Kun
