Institute for Mental
Health and Resilience Board of Advisors

Hakima Amri, PhD
Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular and Cellular Biology at Georgetown University and co-founder and co-director of Georgetown’s Complementary and Alternative Medicine Graduate Program
Desiree Azizoddin, PsyD
Assistant Professor, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine
Keren Bachi, PhD
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry Assistant Professor, Environmental Medicine and Public Health at the Mt. Sinai Icahn School of Medicine
Alsan Bellard, Jr., MD, MBA
Chief Medical Officer, Community of Hope community health centers, Washington, DC
Jen Bonamer, PhD, RN, NPD-BC, AHN-BC
Nursing Professional Development – Research Specialist and Education, Professional Development & Research Department at Sarasota Memorial Health Care System
Margaret Calarco, PhD, RN, NEA-BC
Director for Clinical Innovation, Adjunct Clinical Instructor at University of Michigan Medical School
Bradley Collins, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Warren Alpert School of Medicine, Brown University; President, Rhode Island Chapter of the Society of Hospital Medicine
Gary Deutsch, MD
Program Director, Northwell Complex General Surgical Oncology Fellowship; Associate Professor of Surgery, Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
Charles Elder, MD
Senior Investigator Internal Medicine and Primary Care Internist at Kaiser Permanente Northwest (KPNW); Executive Director of the Fellowship for Medical Professionals, Associate Professor of Physiology and Health
Cindy Feinberg, CPC, CAI
Founder, The Recovery Coach NY
Richard Friedman, MD
Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College; Director of the Psychopharmacology Clinic at the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic; New York, NY
James Galvin, MD
Founding Director of the Comprehensive Center for Brain Health and Professor of Neurology and Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Miami School of Medicine
Jan Gryczynski, PhD
Senior Research Scientist, Friends Research Institute
Kisha Holden, PhD, MCSR
Poussaint-Satcher Endowed Chair in Mental Health and Associate Director of the Satcher Health Leadership Institute at Morehouse School of Medicine
Gary Kaplan, DO, DABFP, DABPM, FAAMA
Founder and Medical Director of the Kaplan Center for Integrative Medicine
Alex Kolevzon, MD
Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics; Clinical Director, Seaver Autism Center; Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Director, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Mount Sinai Health System
George Kolodner, MD
Founder, Kolmac Integrated Behavioral Health Centers
Ana Krieger, MD
Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Departments of Medicine, Neurology and Genetic Medicine and Chief of the Sleep Neurology Division in the Department of Neurology at Weill Cornell Medicin; Medical Director of the Center for Sleep Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine
Patty Lee, MD
Senior Faculty, Medicine, Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine at Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai
Yolanda Lewis-Ragland
Double-board-certified physician in pediatrics and obesity medicine; Owner and CEO of Family Fitness and Wellness for Community Health; Founder of the Dr. Yolanda Cares Foundation
Yuval Neria, PhD
Professor of Clinical Medical Psychology at Columbia University, Departments of Psychiatry and Epidemiology and Director of Trauma and PTSD at the New York State Psychiatric Institute (NYSPI)
Eric J. Nestler, MD, PhD
Nash Family Professor of Neuroscience and Director of the Friedman Brain Institute; Dean for Academic and Scientific Affairs; Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
Mark Nestor, MD, PhD
Director, Center for Clinical and Cosmetic Research, Voluntary Professor, Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery, Department of Surgery, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Mandy O’Hara, MD
Child Abuse Pediatrician at Children’s Hospital at Montefiore and Associate Professor at Montefiore Einstein
Mark Rapaport, MD
Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and CEO of the Huntsman Mental Health Institute (HMHI) Mental Health Institute (HMHI) at the University of Utah
Norman Rosenthal, MD
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown University School of Medicine
William Stixrud, PhD
Clinical Neuropsychologist and founder of The Stixrud Group, Teaching Faculty at Children’s National Medical Center and an Assistant Professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at the George Washington Univ. School of Medicine
Peter Steel, MD
Vice Chair for Clinical Services and Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College
Shilpa Taufique, PhD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Director, Division of Psychology, Mount Sinai Health System; New York, NYAssistant Professor of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Director, Division of Psychology, Mount Sinai Health System; New York, NY
M. Pilar Trelles, MD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
Anna Yusim, MD
Director, Upper East Side Psychiatry, New York, NY; Lecturer, Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine