Amir Garakani, MD, DFAPA

Dr. Garakani served as Chair of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health at Greenwich Hospital in Greenwich, CT from 2021-2025. He was also a former Director of Education and an Attending Staff Psychiatrist in the Transitional Living Program at Silver Hill Hospital in New Canaan, CT. He is Board-Certified in Psychiatry, Forensic Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine. He received his B.A. in Classics (Latin), cum laude, with Distinction in All Subjects, from Cornell University, in Ithaca, NY, and his M.D. from the SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, NY, where he won the AMA Rock Sleyster Scholarship. He completed his psychiatry residency at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, NY, and a research fellowship at the Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Dr. Garakani also completed a fellowship in Forensic Psychiatry at New York University Medical Center. He has won several awards including the American Psychiatric Association (APA)/Lilly Resident Research Award, APA – NY County District Branch Resident Research Award, and travel awards from the Anxiety Disorders Association of America and Society of Biological Psychiatry. He also was an APA/GlaxoSmithKline Leadership Fellow and a Fellow of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry. He has participated in NIMH-funded research and is first or co-author on over 90 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters. He has taught classes to Mount Sinai medical students and residents on psychopharmacology, phenomenology, neuroscience and forensic psychiatry, and supervised psychiatry residents and medical students. He supervises Yale medical and physician associate students at Greenwich Hospital. He previously was elected to the Executive Council of the APA NY County District Branch. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a Member of the American College of Psychiatrists. He is also a member of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry. He is also on the editorial board as a Clinical Case Discussion Editor for the Journal of Psychiatric Practice, and an Associate Editor for the journals Psychiatric Research and Clinical Practice and Frontiers in Psychiatry - Psychopharmacology.