Jeffrey A. Lieberman, MD, has spent his career of over thirty years caring for patients and studying the nature and treatment of mental illness. Dr. Lieberman is the Lawrence C. Kolb Professor and Chairman of Psychiatry at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and Director of the New York State Psychiatric Institute. He also holds the Lieber Chair for Schizophrenia Research in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia and serves as Psychiatrist in Chief at New York Presbyterian Hospital–Columbia University Medical Center. His work has advanced our knowledge of the history and treatment of psychotic disorders and has fundamentally contributed to the current standards of care as well as the development of novel therapeutic medications and transformative strategies for the early detection and prevention of schizophrenia.
Dr. Lieberman has authored more than five hundred articles published in the scientific literature and has edited or coedited twelve books on mental illness and psychiatry. He is the recipient of many honors and awards, including the Lieber Prize for Schizophrenia Research from the Brain and Behavior Research Association, the Adolph Meyer Award from the American Psychiatric Association, the Stanley R. Dean Award for Schizophrenia Research from the American College of Psychiatry, the Research Award from the National Alliance on Mental Illness, and the Neuroscience Award from the International College of Neuropsychopharmacology. Formerly the president of the American Psychiatric Association, he is a member of numerous scientific organizations and in 2000 was elected to the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine.
He lives with his wife in New York City.