Director of the Autism and Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Program
Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center
Principal Investigator
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Dr.
Hollander is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Director of the Autism
and Obsessive Compulsive Spectrum Program at Montefiore Medical Center
and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Previously he served as the
Esther and Joseph Klingenstein Professor and Chair of Psychiatry at the
Mount Sinai School of Medicine and was Director of the Seaver and NY
Autism Center of Excellence in New York City. Before then he served as
Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the Columbia University
College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York.
Dr.
Hollander received his B.A. from Brandeis University (1978), and his
M.D. from SUNY Downstate Medical College, Brooklyn (1982). He completed
his internship in Internal Medicine at Mt. Sinai Hospital (1983),
residency and chief resident in psychiatry at Mt Sinai School of
Medicine (1986), and his NIMH research fellowship at Columbia University
College of Physicians and Surgeons (1988). He has served as an
Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia University
College of Physicians and Surgeons, and as the Esther and Joseph
Klingenstein Professor and Chair of Psychiatry at the Mount Sinai School
of Medicine.
Dr.
Hollander has served as the principal investigator for a number of
federal grants, including the NIH Greater New York Autism Center of
Excellence, the NIMH Research Training Grant in Psychopharmacology and
Outcomes Research, and an FDA funded multicenter treatment trial of
pediatric body dysmorphic disorder. He was the principal investigator of
the autism Clinical Trials Network, and Chair of the eight centers NIH
STAART Autism Steering Committee. He is involved in research on the
neuropharmacology, neuropsychiatry, functional imaging, and treatment of
obsessive-compulsive disorder, impulsive/aggressive personality
disorders, obsessive-compulsive-related disorders such as body
dysmorphic disorder, pathological gambling, and autism. Dr. Hollander
served as Chair of the DSM-V Research Planning Agenda for Obsessive
Compulsive Behavior Spectrum Disorders, and member of the DSM-V Anxiety,
Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum, Post-Traumatic and Dissociative
Disorders Workgroup, and the Behavioral and Substance Addictions
Workgroup.
Dr.
Hollander has received a Research Scientist Development Award from the
National Institute of Mental health to investigate the psychobiology of
obsessive-compulsive and related disorders. He has received orphan drug
grants from the Food and Drug Administration to study new treatments for
body dysmorphic disorder, child/adolescent autism, and adult autism,
and a grant from the National Institute of Drug Abuse for a study on the
neurobiology of pathological gambling. He has received several grants
from the National Institute of Mental Health, and the National Institute
of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, to develop treatments for
borderline personality disorder, adolescent body dysmorphic disorder,
and autism. Dr. Hollander has received two national research awards from
the American Psychiatric Association and a Distinguished Investigator
Award from the National Alliance for Research in Schizophrenia and
Depression.
During
his career, Dr. Hollander has published more than 500 scientific
publications in the professional literature. He has edited 20 books,
including the Textbook of Autism Spectrum Disorders (American
Psychiatric Publishing, 2011), the Textbook of Anxiety Disorders
(American Psychiatric Publishing, 2002 and 2009 editions), and the
Clinical Manual of Impulse Control Disorders (2006).
Dr.
Hollander is listed for the past ten years in NY Magazine’s and Castle
Connolly’s “Best Doctors”, and “Best Doctors in America”. He has made
frequent media appearances on the Today Show and Dateline NBC and has
had interviews in People Magazine and the New York Times. He is
co-author of a book with Marc Summers, Everything In Its Place: My
Trials and Triumphs with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (Penguin Putnam,
1999) and coauthored with Nick Bakalar, Coping with Social Anxiety: The
Definitive Guide to Effective Treatment Options (Henry Holt and Company,
2005).