Jonathan E. Alpert, M.D. ’86, Ph.D, has been named Professor and University Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Montefiore Health System and Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. He will also have academic appointments in the Departments of Neuroscience and Pediatrics. Alpert, who will hold the Dorothy and Marty Silverman Chair in Psychiatry at Einstein, will assume his position on April 1, 2017. Alpert will be succeeding T. Byram Karasu, M.D., who completed his residency training in Psychiatry at Yale in 1969. Alpert is currently Associate Chief of Psychiatry and Director of the Depression Clinical and Research Program at the Massachusetts General Hospital and the first incumbent of the Joyce R. Tedlow Chair in the field of depression studies at Harvard Medical School. He was also formerly Director of Medical Student Education in Psychiatry at HMS. Alpert has authored over 200 publications, serves on the board of the National Network of Depression Centers, is a member of the Harvard Medical School Academy, and is a distinguished fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.
Alpert received his B.A. summa cum laude in Philosophy and Psychology from Yale University, his M.D. from Yale School of Medicine, and his Ph.D. in behavioral pharmacology from the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, where he was a Marshall Scholar. He completed residencies at Boston Children’s Hospital (Pediatrics) and McLean Hospital (Psychiatry) before joining the MGH Psychiatry faculty in 1992.