Lawrence Amsel is an Associate Professor of Clinical
Psychiatry at Columbia University. After completing his Psychiatry
residency training, he completed research fellowships at Columbia University
in Mental Health Statistics and in Child Psychiatry Research. He also
joined the faculty of Columbia University in 1992 as a clinical and
research psychiatrist, where he worked on suicide risk factors. After
9/11, he joined the Trauma Studies and Services (TSS) Division at the
New York Psychiatric Institute, as the Co-Director for Dissemination.
Later he joined the Global Psychiatric Epidemiology Group (GPEG) at
Columbia studying the effects of childhood stress on child and
adolescent mental health. He was an early proponent of Computational Psychiatry,
and developed mathematical game theory models
of suicide behaviors, OCD, anorexia, and Prolonged Greif Disorder.
Yael M Cycowicz is an Associate Professor of Clinical Neurobiology in Psychiatry at Columbia University, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, and a Research Scientist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute (NYSPI). She received her M.Sc. in Neurobiology from the Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School in Jerusalem, and then her Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from New York University. She is the Director of the Neuro-Cognitive and Emotion Lab (NCEL) which investigates attention, memory, and emotional regulation mechanisms and processes. Currently, her focus is on understanding the impact of trauma on mental health across the lifespan, its spread across generations, and its influence among family members. She is also a member of the Global Psychiatric Epidemiology Group (GPEG) where she investigates the mental health impact of children whose parents are involved with the criminal justice system. Beyond her research interests, she is actively involved with student development and teaching, mentoring students from the Institute of Human Nutrition and junior faculty and teaching at Columbia College and New York University.
Christina W Hoven, a Child Psychiatric Epidemiologist, is a
graduate of Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. She is a
Professor of Epidemiology and Psychiatry and Director of the Global Psychiatric
Epidemiology Group at the Columbia University Medical Center. She got the David
E. Rogers Medal in Health Policy from Cornell University. Her research
interests include Biostatistical Methods, Chronic disease, Global Health and
Mental Health.
