Kenneth Tardiff, MD was trained at the Massachusetts General Hospital and the Harvard School of Public Health. He has been funded to do research for decades and has published over 130 papers in peer-reviewed journals and over 75 books and book chapters on violence, suicide, psychopharmacology and other topics in psychiatry.As a full time Professor of Psychiatry and Attending Psychiatrist, he has worked in the Payne Whitney Clinic Outpatient and Inpatient Services, taught Cornell medical students and residents and has been the Clinical Director for the Department of Psychiatry.