Dr. Lisa J. Cohen is a licensed clinical psychologist who works as a teacher, scientist, and clinician. She is Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Beth Israel Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City, where she also serves as Director of Research for Psychology and Psychiatry. Dr. Cohen teaches topics in clinical psychology to graduate and undergraduate students in psychology and to psychiatric residents. Her scientific research has covered a number of domains, including obsessive compulsive disorder, child trauma, personality pathology, psychological testing, opiate addiction, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia. She has authored or co-authored over 70 articles in professional journal and 14 book chapters. In her private practice, she provides psychotherapy to individuals and couples, combining psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioral techniques. She also works as a supervising psychologist on an inpatient psychiatric unit, where she oversees the provision of group therapy and psychological testing to psychiatric patients with serious mental illness, such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.