Director , Larry Siever, M.D.: Executive Director of Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center (MIRECC) at the James J. Peters VA Medical Center, and Professor and Director of the Outpatient Division in the Department of Psychiatry at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Dr. Siever has published over 300 peer-reviewed articles.
Associate Director, Research , Vahram Haroutunian, Ph.D.: Director of the Division of Basic Laboratory Sciences at the James J. Peters VA Medical Center, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobiology at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and Director of the Schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s Disease Brain Bank which banks and distributes fixed and frozen brain tissue specimens to a wide variety of laboratories within and outside the VA.
MIRECC Director of Education, Bruce M. Levine, M.D.: Director of Education for the VISN 3 MIRECC, Psychiatrist at the James J. Peters VA Medical Center, Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Director of MIRECC Fellowship Training in VISN 3. Prior to joining the MIRECC and Mount Sinai, Dr. Levine held positions of Associate Director of Residency training in Psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and subsequently at New York University School of Medicine, and was the Clinical Director at Manhattan Psychiatric Center. Dr. Levine has won numerous awards as a teacher and educator in his departments of psychiatry, and is an examiner for the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.
Associate Director, Evaluation and Health Services Research, R. Claire Henderson, M.D. Ph.D.: Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine; Adjunct Associate Research Scientist, Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University; Honorary Research Worker, Health Services Research Department, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London.
Associate Director, Clinical, Miklos Losonczy, M.D. Ph.D.: Associate Chief of Staff for Mental Health and Behavioral Sciences for the VA New Jersey Healthcare System, Co-chair of the VISN 3 Mental Health Advisory Group, Co-chair of the Under Secretary for Health’s Special Committee on the Seriously Mentally Ill Veterans, and Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Robert Wood Johnson School of Medicine. |