After completing his Psychiatry residency training, Dr. Lawrence Amsel completed research fellowships at Columbia University in Mental Health Statistics and in Child Psychiatry Research. He then joined the faculty of Columbia University in 1992 as a clinical and research psychiatrist, where he worked on suicide risk factors, the long-term effects of childhood trauma, such as exposure to 9/11 or involvement with the Criminal Justice System, and on decision theory and game theory models in psychiatry.
Dr. Amsel recently coedited a book entitled, An International Perspective on Disasters and Children's Mental Health (Springer, 2019). At the REACH Institute Dr. Amsel helped develop a training program for Primary Care Physicians (PCP) on how to integrate mental health into primary care practice, and has been involved in disseminating the program for 20 years. He also co-developed the Reach communications course with Marjorie Heyman, PhD.
