Talk:Harold S. Koplewicz/draft2

Professional career section
Current article-text: Following the completion of his medical residencies and fellowship in the 1980s," Replace with: After graduating, Koplewicz held positions as an intern in pediatrics at the Bronx Municipal Hospital Center, a psychiatry resident at Cornell University, and worked a two-year fellowship at the National Institute of Mental Health.

Current article-text: Koplewicz became the chief of child and adolescent psychiatry at the Long Island Jewish Medical Center, Replace with: In 1996, Koplewicz was appointed as the chief of child and adolescent psychiatry at New York University Langone Medical Center.

Remove (poorly sourced): the primary teaching hospital for the medical school of Yeshiva University (YU) from which he had graduated in the Bronx.

Current article-text: In 1997 he helped found and served as the first director of the NYU Child Study Center (CSC), a position he held until he left NYU in October 2009. Add citation

Add content (after the sentence starting "In 1997 Koplewicz . . . NYU Child Study Center): According to Koplewicz, while there, he and the chair of the board raised $142 million for the organization. During Koplewicz's tenure at N.Y.U., it created a controversial advertising campaign depicting mental health diseases like Asperger Syndrome and autism as holding children for ransom. The campaign led to protests from disability groups and the advertisements were eventually removed.

Remove redundant text: In the mid 1990s he joined NYU Langone Medical Center where he was vice chair of department of psychiatry (1996-);

Remove unsourced text: director of division of child and adolescent psychiatry (1996-); senior vice president & vice dean for external affairs (1997-); and professor of clinical psychiatry at the School of Medicine (1996-).

Remove (private information of marginal significance to readers): He received a severance package in excess of $1.2 million.

Current article-text: While Koplewicz worked at NYU Langone, he also served as the director of the Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, a psychiatric facility run by the state of New York. In 2011 Koplewicz was dismissed from this role following a dispute with Jeffrey A. Sachs, the newly installed advisor on health care issues to the Governor. Move to just after: In 1996, Koplewicz was appointed as the chief of child and adolescent psychiatry at the New York University Langone Medical Center.