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Daniel Salzman, M.D./PhD
Asst. Professor
Research Scientist, New York State Psychiatric Institute
Division: Mahoney Center
Fellowship: Affective and Related Disorders
Research Interests: Cognitive Systems/Neuroscience
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Theo Sandfort, PhD
Associate Professor and Research Scientist
Training Director, HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies, New York State Psychiatric Institute
Division: Mailman School of Public Health
Fellowship: Behavioral Sciences Research in HIV Infection
Research Interests: HIV
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Primary research interest: Same-sex sexuality and mental health; gay and lesbian lifestyles, determinants of HIV risk behavior; psychosexual development; cross-national comparisons in sexuality; sexual health counseling.
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Claudia Schmauss, PhD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Columbia University
Division: Molecular Therapeutics
Fellowship: Schizophrenia Reseach Fellowship
Research Interests: Animal Models of Psychiatric Disease
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We are interested in unraveling molecular mechanisms underlying gene expression changes in psychopathological states.
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 Franklin Schneier, M.D.
Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
Research Psychiatrist, Clinical Therapeutics, New York State Psychiatric Institute
Division: Clinical Therapeutics
Fellowship: Affective and Related Disorders
Research Interests: Anxiety Disorders
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My research interests include the integration of pharmacological and cognitive-behavioral approaches to treatment of social anxiety disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, and posttraumatic stress disorder, and the application of PET and fMRI to understanding brain function in these conditions.
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 Sharon Schwartz, PhD
Associate Professor, Clinical Epidemiology
Division: Mailman School of Public Health
Fellowship: Psychiatric Epidemiology
Research Interests: Epidemiology
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Sharon Schwartz, a sociologist, is the Training Coordinator for the Psychiatric Epidemiology Training Program at Columbia. Her research focuses on methodological issues, particularly in psychiatric research, and on the integration of methods from sociology, genetics and epidemiology.
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 David Shaffer, M.D.
Irving Philips Professor of Child Psychiatry, Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, and Chief, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center
Chief, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center
Division: Child Psychiatry
Fellowship: Child Psychiatry
Research Interests: Child Psychiatry
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Dr. Shaffer has a long standing interest in developing new diagnostic instruments for children and adolescents.
He was the lead investigator in developing the Children’s Global Assessment Scale (C-GAS). Dr. Shaffer has led a team of colleagues and investigators in developing and modifying the Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children (DISC) ...
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Harry Shair, PhD
Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology (in Psychiatry)
Research Scientist, New YorK State Psychiatric Institute
Division: Developmental Neuroscience
Fellowship: Developmental Neuroscience and Behavior
Research Interests: Developmental Neuroscience, Animal Models of Psychiatric Disease
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Dr. Shair, a past-president of the International Society of Developmental Psychobiology, studies how the early environment, pre- or postnatal, contributes to ontogenetic course of the growing organism.
Much of his work has focused on the influence of the parent-infant interaction on postnatal development. His most recent work has addressed ...
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 H. Blair Simpson, M.D./PhD
Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Director of the Anxiety DIsorders Clinic
Director, Anxiety Disorders Clinic, New York State Psychiatric Institute
Division: Clinical Therapeutics
Fellowship: Affective and Related Disorders
Research Interests: Anxiety Disorders, Mood Disorders, Psychotherapy Research
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Helen Blair Simpson, M.D., Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the College of Physician and Surgeons of Columbia University and the Director of the Anxiety Disorders Clinic at the New York State Psychiatric Institute.
Dr. Simpson’s research program focuses on how to improve treatments for people with obsessive-compulsive ...
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 Richard Sloan, PhD
Nathaniel Wharton Professor of Behavioral Medicine
Chief, Division of Behavioral Medicine, New York State Psychiatric Institute
Division: Behavioral Medicine
Fellowship: Developmental Neuroscience and Behavior
Research Interests: Developmental Neuroscience
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Dr. Sloan’s principal work focuses on identifying the autonomic nervous system mechanisms linking psychological risk factors such as depression, hostility, and anxiety to heart disease. Funded research studies address various aspects of this problem:
1) using the quasi-naturalistic model of cardiac transplantation to examine how loss of autonomic ...
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Yaakov Stern, PhD
Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology
Head, Cognitive Neuroscience Division, Taub Institute and Sergievsky Center
Division: Neurology
Fellowship: Developmental Neuroscience and Behavior, Geriatric Psychiatry Research Fellowship
Research Interests: Cognitive Systems/Neuroscience, Geriatrics
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Cognitive experimental and neuroimaging studies in aging and dementia
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 David Sulzman, PhD
Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry-Neuroscience and Pharmacology
Division: Neuroscience
Fellowship: Substance Abuse Disorders
Research Interests: Synapses and Circuits, Neural Degeneration and Repair
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Our lab explores synaptic connections that underlie learning as well as neurodegenerative diseases that occur at these synapses. In particular, we examine three-part synapses formed by excitatory cortical projections and modulatory midbrain dopamine projections that converge onto striatal neuron dendrites, resulting in the so-called striatal microcircuit, ...
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 Ezra Susser, M.D./PhD
Professor of Psychiatry and Epidemiology
Professor of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
Division: Epidemiology of Dev. Brain Disorders
Fellowship: Behavioral Sciences Research in HIV Infection, Developmental Neuroscience and Behavior, Genetics of Complex Disorders, Psychiatric Epidemiology, Schizophrenia Reseach Fellowship
Research Interests: Epidemiology
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Much of Dr. Susser’s research focuses on the developmental origins of health and disease throughout the life course, with a particular focus on neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism and schizophrenia. He has also taken an active role in using epidemiology to better understand the roles of race, immigration, and social factors in the development ...
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