Joshua A. Gordon, M.D., Ph.D., a psychiatrist and neuroscientist, is Chair of the Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. He also serves as Executive Director of the New York State Psychiatric Institute (NYSPI) and Psychiatrist-in-Chief at New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC).

Prior to this, Dr. Gordon served for eight-years as the Director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), the lead federal agency for research on mental illnesses, where he was at the forefront of mental health research and policy.

Dr. Gordon earned his undergraduate degree in biology from Washington University and M.D./Ph.D. from the University of California, San Francisco. He completed his residency in psychiatry and a research fellowship with Dr. Rene Hen at Columbia /NYSPI.

His early research focused on understanding how genetic mutations influence neural activity in mouse models of schizophrenia, anxiety disorders, and depression, using advanced imaging techniques to unravel the complex interactions within the brain that contribute to these conditions.

Read more about Dr. Gordon from the March 2017 issue of Brain & Behavior Magazine.

In 2018, Dr. Gordon presented the Child Mind Institute Change Maker Award for Outstanding Organization to the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation. Read more about that.