Jonathan E. Alpert MD PhD is the Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and the Silverman Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences as well as Professor in the Departments of Neuroscience and Pediatrics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center. He is also Board Chair of University Behavioral Associates at Montefiore Medical Center. He is Vice Chair of the Future DSM Strategic Committee and immediate past Chair of the APA’s Council on Research. He also serves on the Scientific Council of the American Foundation of Suicide Prevention and the editorial boards of the Journal of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, Psychiatric Research and Clinical Practice, and Journal of Psychiatric Research.
He is author of over 250 publications. He has had research funding from the NIH, PCORI, and NARSAD and has received awards for excellence in teaching, mentorship, scholarship and patient care from Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Partners HealthCare, Montefiore Einstein, the American Psychiatric Association, Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance, Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Anxiety and Depression Association of America. His interests include pharmacological and psychotherapy treatments of mood disorders, ethical issues in research design, advancing mental health education and training, and promoting mental health equity in research and clinical care. He received his BA and MD from Yale and PhD from the University of Cambridge in Behavioral Pharmacology where he was a Marshall Scholar. He trained at Boston Children’s Hospital and McLean and held clinical, research and education roles at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School for 24 years before joining Montefiore and Einstein in 2017.
