Christoph Correll, MD, is professor of Psychiatry at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell in New York, and Medical Director of the Recognition and Prevention (RAP) program at the Zucker Hillside Hospital in New York. He completed his medical studies at the Free University of Berlin in Germany, and Dundee University Medical School in Scotland. He is board certified in general psychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry, having completed both residencies at The Zucker Hillside Hospital in New York City.

Professor Correll’s research and clinical work focus on the identification, characterisation and treatment of adults and youths with severe psychiatric disorders, including the prodrome, first episode, multi-episode and refractory illness phase of psychotic and mood disorders. He further focuses on psychopharmacology and comparative effectiveness, as well as the risk–benefit evaluation of psychotropic medications.

Professor Correll has authored or co-authored over 450 journal articles. He has served on several expert consensus panels on the use of antipsychotics across a range of psychiatric disorders, is a reviewer for over 70 peer-reviewed journals and an editorial board member of 12 scientific journals. Professor Correll is the Principal Investigator or Steering Committee member of several large, federally funded grants. He has received over 30 national and international research awards and fellowships for his work. Since 2014, the year of inception of this metric, he has been listed each year by Thomson Reuters in as one of “the most influential scientific minds” and “top 1% cited scientists in the area of psychiatry”.