Chairman
Jonathan E. Alpert, Ph.D., M.D.
Dorothy and Marty Silverman Chair in Psychiatry
Chair, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Deputy Chairman
Bruce Schwartz, M.D.
Deputy Chairman
Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
Clinical Director, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
In addition to his academic, administrative, and clinical leadership roles, Dr. Schwartz serves as the President of the Montefiore Behavioral Care Integrated Provider Association and is the President, Chief Executive Officer, Medical Director and founding member of University Behavioral Associates, a not for profit behavioral health management services organization. Dr. Schwartz is an expert in the treatment of affective disorders and psychopharmacology.
George Como MPA
Executive Unified Administrator
Vice Chairs
Kamran Khodakhah, Ph.D.
Professor & Vice Chair for Research in Psychiatry
Harold & Muriel Block Chair in Neuroscience
Professor & Chair, Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience
Professor, Saul R. Korey Department of Neurology
Dr. Khodakhah is an internationally recognized neuroscientist. His research interests include elucidation of the role of the cerebellum in cognition, and psychiatric and behavioral disorders.
Gary J. Kennedy, M.D.
Vice Chair for Education
Scott Wetzler, Ph.D.
Vice Chair for Population Health
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Dr. Wetzler received his doctorate in clinical psychology from Duke University and completed a psychology internship at New York Hospital-Westchester Division. He has served on the Einstein/Montefiore faculty since 1984. Dr. Wetzler's interests focus on mood and personality disorder and behavioral health services utilization. He has published five books and more than 100 articles, and frequently appears on television.
Division Chiefs
Simon A. Rego, Psy.D., ABPP, ACT
Chief, Division of Psychology
Audrey Walker, M.D.
Chief, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Director, Medical Student Education
Maryann J. Popiel, M.D.
Chief of Psychiatry, Jacobi Medical Center and North Central Bronx Hospital
Directors
Andrea Weiss, M.D.
Program Director, Psychiatry Residency Training
Sarah Church, Ph.D.
Executive Director, Division of Substance Abuse
Thomas F. Betzler, M.D.
Executive Clinical Director, East Campus
Clinical Director, Montefiore Behavioral Health Centers
Matthew Schneider, M.D.
Director of Quality Improvement
Clinical Director, Wakefield Campus
Joseph Battaglia, M.D.
Clinical Director, Bronx Psychiatric Center
Keith Ditkowsky, M.D.
Clinical Director, New York City Children’s Center – Bronx
T. Byram Karasu, M.D.
Distinguished University Chair Emeritus