Dr. Igor Galynker is the Director of Research and the Director of Suicide Research and Prevention Laboratory in the Department of Psychiatry at Mount Sinai Beth Israel. He is a Professor of Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine in New York City and the Founder and Director of the Richard and Cynthia Zirinsky Center for Bipolar Disorder. His research interests lie in diagnosis and treatment of acute pre-suicidal mental state, the Suicide Crisis Syndrome as well as the development and implementation of the Modular Assessment of Risk for Imminent Suicide (MARIS). More recently Galynker has been working on creating scalable web-based methods to train clinicians in emotional self-awareness and empathic communication when working with suicidal patients. He has published extensively on these topics in professional journals and in the lay press, and has authored a book “The Suicidal Crisis” published by the Oxford University Press.
Igor Galynker received his PhD in Chemistry from Columbia University in 1982 where he received a Hammett Award for Outstanding Research. He received his medical degree in 1988 from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where he was elected into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. Galynker completed his psychiatry residency at Mount Sinai Medical Center. He has since worked at Mount Sinai Beth Israel in Manhattan.
