JEFFREY ALAN LIEBERMAN, M.D.
CURRENT POSITION
Chairman, Department of Psychiatry
College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University
Director, New York State Psychiatric Institute
Psychiatrist-in-Chief, Columbia University Medical Center of the New York-Presbyterian Hospital
EDUCATION
B.S. 1970 Miami University (Ohio)
M.D. 1975 George Washington University Medicine
POSTGRADUATE TRAINING
1975-1979 Internship and Residency St. Vincent's Hospital and Medical Center of New York, New York Medical College
1979-1980 Research Fellowship, Bronx Psychiatric Center Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2005-Present Psychiatrist-in-Chief, New York Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia University Medical Center
2005-Present Executive Director, New York State Psychiatric Institute
2005-Present Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University
1996-2005 Vice Chairman for Scientific Affairs Dept of Psychiatry and Director, Mental Health and Neuroscience Clinical Research Center University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Director Division of Clinical Research, Dorothea Dix Hospital, Raleigh, NC
1993-1996 Medical Staff of the Clinical Research Center, Medical Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY
1988-1996 Director of Research, Hillside Hospital division of Long Island Jewish Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Glen Oaks, N.Y.
1986-1996 Co-Director Mental Health Clinical Research Center, Hillside Hospital division of Long Island Jewish Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Glen Oaks, N.Y.
1982-1985 Research Psychiatrist, Hillside Hospital division of Long Island Jewish Medical Center, State University of New York School of Medicine, Glen Oaks, N.Y.
1980-1982 Director of Day Hospital Programs, Ambulatory Psychiatry Service. Mount Sinai Medical Center, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, New York, N.Y.
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2005-Present Lawrence C. Kolb Professor and Chairman of Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
2005-Present Lieber Professor of Schizophrenia Research in Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
2005-Present Adjunct Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina, School of Medicine
1998- Present Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry and Radiology, Duke University School of Medicine
1996-2005 Thad and Alice Eure Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry, Pharmacology and Radiology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine
1994-1996 Professor of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, N.Y.
1992-1996 Professor of Psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, N.Y.
1989-1992 Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, N.Y.
1986-1989 Associate Professor of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, State University of New York at Stony Brook, N.Y.
1983-1986 Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, State University of New York at Stony Brook, N.Y.
1980-1982 Instructor of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, City University of New York, N.Y.
BOARD STATUS
National Board of Medical Examiners, 1975
Diplomate, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, 1979
TYPE OF PRACTICE
Psychopharmacology and Neuropsychiatry
LICENSURE STATUS
2005-Present, New York State
1996-2005, North Carolina
1975-1996, New York State
MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives (DABI)
American College of Psychiatrists, Fellow
American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow
American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, Fellow
American Psychiatric Association, Distinguished Fellow
American Psychopathological Association, Fellow
Collegium Internationale NeuroPsychopharmacologicum (C.I.N.P.)
Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences
New York Academy of Science
Society for Biological Psychiatry
Society for Neuroscience
LEADERSHIP POSITIONS IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
2012-2014 President, American Psychiatric Association (APA)
2013-2014 President, American Psychopathological Association (APPA)
2010-2013 Board of Directors, American Psychiatric Foundation, APA
2010-2011 Vice-President, Collegium Internationale NeuroPsychopharmacologicum (C.I.N.P.)
2008-Present Council, Collegium Internationale NeuroPsychopharmacologicum (C.I.N.P.)
2003-2005 President, Society of Biological Psychiatry
2003-Present Scientific Council, Brain & Behavior Research Foundation
2002-2010 Vice-President, North America, International Early Psychosis Association
2000-2004 Chair of the Human Subjects Research Council Workgroup of the National Advisory Mental Health Council to the NIMH
2000-2004 NIMH, National Advisory Mental Health Council
1999-2001 Chair of the American Psychiatric Association Task Force on Ethics in Psychiatric Research
1999-2001 Executive Council, American College of Neuropsychopharmacology
1998-2000 Chair of National Institute of Mental Health Data and Safety Monitoring Board
1998-2000 Planning Board for the Surgeon General’s Report on Mental Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
1988-1994 Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee, United States Food and Drug Administration
EDITORIAL BOARDS
2016-Present Editorial Board New England Journal of Medicine
2005-2013 Editorial Board American Journal of Psychiatry
2005-Present Editorial Board Current Psychiatry Reviews
2004-2012 Editorial Board Neuropsychopharmacology
2003-Present Editorial Board Journal of Psychiatric Research
2001-Present Editorial Board Current Opinion in Psychiatry
1999-Present Editorial Board Schizophrenia Research
HONORS AND AWARDS
2017 Distinguished Service Award, American Psychiatric Association (APA)
2016 Jeffrey Lieberman Professorship in Neuroscience established at the George Washington University School of Medicine
2016 Julius Axelrod Award for Mentorship, American College of Neuropsychopharmacology
2012 Ed Hornick Award, New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM)
2011 Scientific Research Award, National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)
2011 C. Charles Burlingame Award, The Institute of Living, Hartford Hospital
2007 Adolph Meyer Award, American Psychiatric Association
2007 The George Washington University’s Distinguished Alumni Scholar Award, Washington, DC
2006 Eugene A. Hargrove Mental Health Research Award, North Carolina Foundation for Mental Health Research, Inc., North Carolina Psychiatric Association, NCPA
2006 Lieber Prize for Schizophrenia Research, NARSAD
2003-Present Best Doctors in America ®
2002 Lilly Neuroscience Award, The Collegium Internationale Neuro-Psychopharmacologicum
2000 Stanley Dean Award, Schizophrenia Research, American College of Psychiatry
2000 Ziskind-Somerfield Award, Society of Biological Psychiatry
2000 Kempf Fund Award, Research in Psychobiological Psychiatry, American Psychiatric Association
1998 Gralnick Award, Schizophrenia Research, National Association of Private Psychiatric Hospitals
1998 Edward A. Strecker Award for Psychiatric Research, University of Pennsylvania Hospital
1998 American Psychiatric Association Research Award
1997-Present Exemplary Psychiatrist, National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, NAMI
1996-2005 Thad & Alice Eure Award, Distinguished Professor in Psychiatry, UNC School of Medicine
1994 Kempf Fund Award, Research in Psychobiological Psychiatry, American Psychiatric Association
1993 Presidential Award, Research, National Association of Psychiatric Health Systems
1992 Gralnick Award, Schizophrenia Research, National Association of Private Psychiatric Hospitals
MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:
1. Neurobiology of schizophrenia and related psychotic disorders.
2. Psychopharmacology of schizophrenia and related psychotic disorders.
3. Translational neuroscience of mental disorders.
4. Development of biomarkers and diagnostic measures for mental disorders.