Associate Chairman for Research, Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai Beth Israel; Founder and Director, Richard and Cynthia Zirinsky Family Center for Bipolar; Professor of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine, New York, New York
Mount Sinai Beth Israel
Dr. Igor Galynker, MD, PhD, is the head of the Suicide Research Prevention Laboratory at Mount Sinai Beth Israel. He is also the Associate Chairman for Research in the Department of Psychiatry at Mount Sinai Beth Israel and the Founder and Director of the Richard and Cynthia Zirinsky Family Center for Bipolar. He is a Professor of Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine. He received his PhD in Chemistry from Columbia University and his medical degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where he was elected into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society and completed his psychiatry residency at Mount Sinai Medical Center.
In 2006, Galynker founded the Family Center for Bipolar, which is part of the Zirinsky Mood Disorders Center and is a clinical and research center treating children, adolescents, and adults. The Center has become a Center of Excellence in the Mount Sinai Health System and has been profiled in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. His clinical and research interests include behavioral addictions, bipolar disorder, suicide prevention, and the role of family in psychiatric illness. He has published on these topics in professional journals and in the lay press and has authored a book on family involvement in psychiatric treatment.
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Tuesday, September 20, 2022
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