Luca Pauselli

Luca was born and raised in Italy, where he completed medical school and a psychiatry residency at the University of Perugia. During his fourth year of residency, he came to New York as a Visiting Scholar at Lenox Hill Hospital. After graduating from residency, he returned to New York as a research coordinator first and then as an Associate Research Scientist at Columbia University. Luca went back into training and completed residency at Mount Sinai Morning Side and West, where he continued to cultivate his interests in public psychiatry, social determinants of mental health, LGBTQ+ mental health, and global mental health. His research has focused on trajectories of recovery, social determinants of mental health, psycholinguistic of schizophrenia, and diversion from jail for people with serious mental illness.