After leaving NYU in 2009 Koplewicz started the Child Mind Institute.
(meta data) TITLE: Harold S. Koplewicz, MD | Child Mind Institute (meta data) PUBLISHER: http://www.facebook.com/ChildMindInstitute Child Mind Institute Child Mind Institute Donate # Harold S. Koplewicz, MD ## President; Medical Director ## Child Mind Institute # Contact # Contact Blythe Gillespie, Executive Assistant (646) 625- 4330 Harold S. Koplewicz, MD, is the founding president and Medical Director of the Child Mind Institute. One of the nation's leading child and adolescent psychiatrists, he is known as an innovator in the field, a strong advocate for child mental health and a master clinician. The mission of the Child Mind Institute, founded in 2009 by Dr. Koplewicz, Brooke Garber Neidich and Debra Perelman, is to: Offer best-in-class evidence-based clinical careEngage the global scientific community in visionary research to discover more effective treatmentsEducate and empower parents by providing trustworthy information and resourcesUse passionate advocacy to remove the stigma associated with psychiatric disorders Dr. Koplewicz continues to guide the Institute towards accomplishing this mission. He has been repeatedly recognized in America's Top Doctors, Best Doctors in America and New York Magazine's "Best Doctors in New York," and was named one of WebMD's 2014 Health Heroes for his advocacy on behalf of children with psychiatric or learning disorders. He has been the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology since 1997. Follow Dr. Koplewicz on Twitter. ## Experience Executive Director, Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research (NKI)Vice Dean and Senior Vice President, NYU Langone Medical CenterChairman, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, NYU School of MedicineArnold and Debbie Simon Professor of Child and Adolescent PsychiatryFounding director, NYU Child Study CenterMember, working group organized by the U.S. Assistant Surgeon General and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to address the effects of terrorism on children's mental healthChief, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Long Island Jewish Medical CenterMember, National Board of Medical ExaminersCommissioner, New York State Commission on Youth, Crime and Violence and Reform of the Juvenile Justice System ## Training NIMH Research Fellow, Child Psychiatry, New York State Psychiatric InstituteChild Psychiatry Fellow, Columbia University College of Physicians and SurgeonsPsychiatric Resident, New York Hospital Westchester DivisionIntern, Pediatrics, Bronx Municipal Hospital Center ## Education MD, Albert Einstein College of MedicineBS, Psychology, University of Maryland ## Board Certification American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in PsychiatryAmerican Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry # More from Harold S. 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Harold S. Koplewicz
Professional career.
After graduating from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Dr. Koplewicz completed a pediatric internship at the Bronx Municipal Hospital Center. He studied general psychiatry at Cornell University and completed a two-year research fellowship through the National Institute of Mental Health." In 1997 he helped found and served as the first director of the NYU Child Study Center (CSC), a position he held until he left NYU in October 2009. He received a severance package in excess of $1.2 million. Koplewicz served as the chairman of the board of a medical devices company called Delcath from 2007 to 2011. While Koplewicz worked at NYU Langone, he also served as the director of the Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, a psychiatric facility run by the state of New York. In 2011 Koplewicz was dismissed from this role following a dispute with Jeffrey A. Sachs, the newly installed advisor on health care issues to the Governor. 
 In 2007, an advertising campaign for the Child Study Center raised objections over its use of simulated ransom notes, seemingly addressed to parents of autistic children. The campaign was abandoned.