Juan Gallego, MD, MS Specialties: Psychiatry

Dr. Gallego received his medical degree from Universidad CES in Medellín, Colombia, completed his residency training in psychiatry at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY, completed a research fellowship at The Zucker Hillside Hospital, the psychiatric hospital for the North Shore LIJ Health System in Glen Oaks, NY and completed a master’s degree in clinical research methods at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, New York. He worked at The Zucker Hillside Hospital from 2008 to April 2016 and was subsequently recruited as service Chief of the Psychotic Disorders Program at the NewYork-Presbyterian/Westchester Division. His current research interests are: (1) studying microRNAs and other biomarkers in cerebrospinal fluid and peripheral blood of patients with schizophrenia, and (2) conducting randomized controlled trials with first episode schizophrenia patients. For this work, he received funding from the National institute of Mental Health (K23 award) and the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation.