We spoke to Dr. Marisa Spann about her work in early childhood psychiatry, her new role in the Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, and having honest, direct conversations about race.
In November 2021, Columbia Psychiatry stepped up as a leader in this field and named Elizabeth Ford, MD, to the newly created position of Director of Mental Health and Criminal Justice Initiatives.
The Center for Practice Innovations is New York’s secret asset quietly helping to make the state’s 38,000 public sector behavioral health workforce among the best trained in the country.
“A good deal of the demonization of people with mental disorders stems from a marked overestimation of their risk of violence,” says Dr. Paul Applebaum.
Dr. Sander Markx and Dr. Job de Jong are hoping their work on mini brains could lead to a pioneering study using stem cells to find and test new treatments for psychiatric disorders.
Kristina Denisova, PhD specializes in state of the art brain imaging of children at risk for Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) at Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
The Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS) was primarily developed Dr. Kelly Posner as a tool to screen for suicidality in medication research trials.
“We are thrilled about our new partners and the opportunity to apply our biotechnology platform at the scale needed to identify new drugs for neuropsychiatric disorders,” said Dr. Sean Escola.
“Just being able to go to a place that doesn’t feel like therapy -- that feels like something every kid does during the summer -- that’s so important,” said Dr. Ali Mattu.
“The experts do not get this right every time. Why would we expect colleges to do so?” wrote Dr. Ravi N. Shah regarding the safety of suicidal students.