Gerald Hurowitz

Gerald Hurowitz is Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and on faculty for the past 30 years at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons. He has a full-time clinical practice in psychopharmacology and neuropsychiatry in New York City. Dr. Hurowitz is a founder and Chief Medical Officer at M3 Information, an information technology company that focuses on mental health integration into primary care. He has co-authored the chapter Psychopharmacology and Electro-convulsive Therapy in the American Psychiatric Press’s Textbook in Psychiatry (2nd ed.) and is the author of several articles in the fields of psychopharmacology and neuropsychiatry. He has presented in a wide range of venues, including at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, at Columbia’s Comprehensive Review of Current Neuro-psychiatry, at the New York State Psychiatric Institute’s Arden House Conference, and at Open Minds. He has co-directed since 1992 the course in Clinical Neuropsychiatry for Columbia’s 4th year Psychiatry residents and ran a weekly clinical psychopharmacology conference on Columbia’s inpatient teaching unit for much of the 1990s and 2000s. Dr. Hurowitz received a Master’s Degree in Philosophy from NYU, an MD from Jefferson Medical College, and a Bachelor of Arts (Physics & Philosophy) from Yale University in 1979. He attended the NYU/Bellevue residency in psychiatry in New York City, where he served as Chief Resident in 1987-8.