Dr. Harold S. Koplewicz, Senior Vice President and Vice Dean for External Affairs, is one of America’s leading child and adolescent psychiatrists, and is the founder of the New York University Child Study Center and the first Chairman of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Founded in 1998, under Dr. Koplewicz’s direction the Child Study Center has experienced extraordinary growth and now has 200 faculty members and staff, an annual operating budget of over $20 million and a research grants portfolio in excess of $46 million.
Dr. Koplewicz is also the Arnold and Debbie Simon Professor and Chairman, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; as well as Professor of Pediatrics. In addition, he is the Director of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Bellevue Hospital. In May of 2006, Dr. Koplewicz was appointed the Executive Director of the Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research (NKI) and is responsible for designing and staffing a new $35 million Rockland Children’s Psychiatric Center as a state-of-the-art children’s psychiatric inpatient hospital, in affiliation with the Child Study Center and Nathan Kline.
In the process of building the Child Study Center, Dr. Koplewicz has been a frequent spokesman for the Child Study Center, NYU, and the field as a whole, and has extensive experience with the national media. Dr. Koplewicz also established a Board of Directors at the Child Study Center with concerned parents, child advocates and philanthropists from across the United States. Today the Child Study Center board includes some of the most prominent business leaders in America, and with their enthusiasm and support Dr. Koplewicz has raised over $110 million since 1997. Dr. Koplewicz is a graduate of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, completed a year in pediatrics at Jacobi Hospital, was a general psychiatry resident at Cornell, trained in child and adolescent psychiatry and child psychopharmacology research at Columbia, and was the chief of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Long Island Jewish before his arrival at NYU.
Dr. Koplewicz is the author of more than 65 peer-reviewed articles and chapters on child and adolescent psychiatry, and several books, including the textbook Depression in Children and Adolescents (Hardwood, 1993); It’s Nobody’s Fault: New Hope and Help for Difficult Children and their Parents (Times Books/Random House, 1996), which received the Parent’s Choice Award and was a “Books for a Better Life” finalist; Childhood Revealed: Art Expressing Pain, Discovery & Hope (Harry Abrams, Inc., 1999); and his most recent work on adolescent depression, More Than Moody: Recognizing and Treating Adolescent Depression (Putnam, 2002). Since 1997, Dr. Koplewicz has been the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology.
