Rami Kaminski, MD

By Appointment Only. 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. Kaminski 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 Clinical 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. Kaminski also served as the Medical Director of the PMHP and consultant to the committee in charge of developing the Special Needs Program. Recently, Dr. Kaminski has been the recipient of the "Patient's Choice Award" for 2009, 2010, and 2011 as well as the "Best Doctors in America Award" for 2011.