New York Gov. George Pataki and Sharon Carpinello, R.N., Ph.D.,
commissioner of the New York State Office of Mental Health (OMH), have
announced the appointment of Harold S. Koplewicz, M.D., as executive director
of OMH's Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research (NKI) in
Orangeburg, N.Y.
Koplewicz, an internationally known child and adolescent psychiatrist, is
also director of the New York University (NYU) Child Study Center and the
Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the NYU-Bellevue Hospital
Center and vice chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the NYU School of
Medicine.
"Harold Koplewicz is a relentless psychiatric pioneer," Pataki
said in a press release. "This appointment signals our firm intent to
aggressively address public health issues that are so pervasive and have such
an impact on public welfare."
NKI, located in Orangeburg, N.Y., on the grounds of Rockland Psychiatric
Center, is known for its pioneering contributions to psychiatric research in
the study of the etiology, treatment, prevention, and rehabilitation of severe
and persistent mental illnesses. ▪