Dr. Stephen Ross is Research Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Child & Adolescent Psychiatry at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Dr. Ross is a founding member of the NYU Psychedelic Research Group and is currently associate director of the NYU Langone Health (NYULH) Center for Psychedelic Medicine and director of the NYULH Psychedelic Medicine Research Training Program. In 21 years at NYU and Bellevue, Dr Ross has been involved in a variety of leadership roles in administration, teaching and research. He previously served as Director of the Division of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse in the Psychiatry Department at Bellevue Hospital Center for 12 years, Director of Addiction Psychiatry at NYULH/Tisch Hospital, Director of the NYU Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship, Director of the Bellevue Inpatient Dual Diagnosis Training Unit, and Director of the Bellevue Opioid Overdose Prevention Program. Dr Ross’s main research interests focus on developing novel pharmacologic-psychosocial approaches to treating: addictive disorders, including the intersection between pain and addiction; psychiatric and existential distress associated with advanced or terminal cancer; major depression; PTSD; and personality disorders. Dr Ross is principal investigator or co-principal investigator on several ongoing and completed psychedelic-focused studies at NYULH including: phase II RCT of psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy in patients with life-threatening cancer-related psychiatric and existential distress, phase I/II RCT of LSD-assisted psychotherapy in advanced cancer pain syndromes, phase II RCT of psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy in alcohol use disorder, phase I/II controlled trial administering psilocybin to religious professionals, and phase II RCT of psilocybin treatment for Major Depressive Disorder. Dr Ross also acts as a co-investigator and study therapist for phase II/III trials of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for PTSD, and is an expert in cannabinoid therapeutics and PI of a NIDA funded study of CBD administration in patients with chronic radicular pain on chronic opioid therapy.
