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Harold Alan Pincus, M.D.

Harold Alan Pincus, M.D., is Vice Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons; Director of Quality and Outcomes Research at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital; and Associate Director of Columbia’s Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research. Dr. Pincus also serves as a Senior Scientist at the RAND Corporation. Previously he was Director of the RAND-University of Pittsburgh Health Institute and Executive Vice Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh, where he still maintains an adjunct professorship. He is the National Director of the Health and Aging Policy Fellows Program (funded by Atlantic Philanthropies), the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s National Program on Depression in Primary Care: Linking Clinical and Systems Strategies and the John A. Hartford Foundation’s national program on Building Interdisciplinary Geriatric Research Centers. Dr. Pincus has also served as the Deputy Medical Director of the American Psychiatric Association, and the founding director of APA’s, Office of Research and Executive Director of the American Psychiatric Institute for Research and Education. Prior to joining the APA, he was the Special Assistant to the Director of the National Institute of Mental Health.

Dr. Pincus graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and received his medical degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Following completion of residency at George Washington Medical Center, Dr. Pincus was named a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar Program. As a Clinical Scholar, Dr. Pincus served as a professional staff member of the President’s Commission on Mental Health at the White House and, subsequently, as a congressional fellow in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Dr. Pincus was Vice Chair of the Task Force on DSM-IV, Co-Chair of the Work Group to Update the Text of DSM-IV (DSM-IV-TR) and has been appointed to the editorial boards of ten major scientific journals. He has edited or co-authored 23 books and over 300 scientific publications on health services research, science policy, research career development and the diagnosis, classification and treatment of mental disorders. Dr. Pincus has had a particular research interest in the practice of evidence-based medicine, improvement quality improvement, and the relationships among general medicine, mental health and substance abuse. He has led major health policy and services research and research training projects totaling over $100 million in external funding. Among other projects, he is currently leading the national evaluation of mental health services for veterans and the redesign of primary care/ behavioral health relationships in New Orleans.

He has also been a consultant to federal agencies and private organizations, including the U.S. Secret Service, John T. and Catherine D. MacArthur Foundation and the Hartford Foundation. Dr. Pincus chaired the NIH committee responsible for recommending medical journals to incorporate into the National Library of Medicine’s Index Medicus, and served on several Institute of Medicine/National Academy of Sciences Committees, including the Review of the Social Security Administration’s Disability Research Program and Crossing the Quality Chasm in Behavioral Health, as well as the World Health Organization’s International Classification of Disease Oversight Committee, the World Psychiatric Association Section on Economics, National Quality Forum Steering Committee on Standards for Substance Abuse Care and numerous other national and international committees. He is a member of the Behavioral Measurement Advisory Panel of the National Committee for Quality Assurance, Scientific Council of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Alliance_on_Mental_Illness National Alliance for the Mentally Ill]and currently chairs the NIH/NCRR Evaluation Key Function Committee for Clinical and Translational Science Awards.

Dr. Pincus received the William C. Menninger Memorial Award of the American College of Physicians for distinguished contributions to the science of mental health, the Health Services Research Senior Scholar Award of the American Psychiatric Association, and Columbia University’s Emily Mumford Medal. In 2005, he was awarded the Vestermark Award from the National Institute of Mental Health and the American Psychiatric Association for contributions to psychiatric education. For over 22 years, he worked one night a week treating the severely mentally ill at a community clinic and continues to conduct clinical consultations as part of the ColumbiaDoctors faculty practice plan.

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Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital

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