Aaron Pinkhasov, M.D., is founding Chair of Psychiatry at NYU Langone Hospital –Long Island and is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Medicine at NYU Grossman Long Island School of Medicine. He is a clinical investigator and a practicing clinician who completed a combined Internal Medicine and Psychiatry Residency program at SUNY-Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York. His expertise extends to general psychiatry, psychosomatic medicine and psychopharmacology. He has a specific interest in areas overlapping medical and psychiatric health. He has vast experience treating patients with a wide variety of psychopathology. The author of multiple publications and presentations, his clinical expertise and areas of research include neurocognitive disorders as well as the role of psychiatry services in optimizing health outcomes. Together with Dr. Allison B. Reiss and Dr. Irving H. Gomolin, he has established NYU Langone Hospital – Long Island as a center for Alzheimer’s treatment and research. He is currently an investigator on an Alzheimer’s Foundation of America-funded study of Alzheimer’s disease molecular pathways. Dr. Pinkhasov has received multiple professional honors. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a Fellow of the Academy of Consultation and Liaison Psychiatry.