Dr. Rami Kaminski MD

Council Member Biography

Rami Kaminski, MD, is Director and Founder of the Institute for Integrative Psychiatry in New York, a not-for-profit organization aimed at evaluating current psychiatric services and how they integrate with medicine, such as the mutual effects between medical and psychiatric conditions. Prior to that, Dr. Kaminkski was the Commissioner's Liaison to Families and Community and Medical Director of Operations at the New York State Office of Mental Health. Dr. Kaminski also holds an academic position as Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University. He earned recognition in 1990 from Mt. Sinai Hospital as Physician of the Year, and received the Exemplary Psychiatrist Awards from the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill. Dr. Kaminski’s research explores neuropsychiatric aspects of brain disorders, such as Alzheimer and Parkinson's disease and movement disorders, as well as psychopharmacology of schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders. He was for many years Director of The Schizophrenia research Unit at Mount Sinai Hospital in NYC. Dr. Kaminiski also served as the Medical Director of the PMHP and consultant to the committee in charge of developing the Special Needs Program. Because of his experience as VP of the New York chapter of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, Dr. Kaminski can speak about patient advocacy. (This is me - Update Profile)

Employment History

2008 - Unspecified

Founder and Director, Institute for Integrative Psychiatry

1996 - 2008

Medical Director, New York State of the Office of Mental Health

1996 - Unspecified

Associate Professor of clinical Psychiatry, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS & SURGEONS

1986 - 1996

Unit Chief, MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER