Larry Amsel

Dr. Amsel, a clinical and research psychiatrist, is on the faculty of Columbia University. Dr. Amsel has a mathematics background, and was an early proponent of using decision science, game theory and Behavioral Economics in psychiatric research. In 2003, he organized the first American Psychiatric Association (APA) symposium on the applications of Game Theory to psychiatry, and chaired an invited follow up symposium at the 2015 APA annual meeting. He was instrumental in designing an application of decision tasks for the largest, on-going epidemiology study to use these tasks in the field, in combination with traditional epidemiologic measures. In addition, Dr. Amsel continues to practice psychiatry at New York Presbyterian hospital, to teach psychiatry at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health, and, with the REACH organization, trains primary care physicians to recognize and mange psychiatric issues in their practices.