Alan Ravitz, MD, MS
Alan Ravitz, MD, MS, is the former Director of Forensic Psychiatry and Senior Psychopharmacologist at the Child Mind Institute. He’s also a clinical and forensic family psychiatrist with over 30 years of experience.
Dr. Ravitz graduated from the University of Michigan with a bachelor’s degree in English literature, and later received his medical degree from Michigan State University College of Human Medicine. After completing both his general psychiatry residency and child & adolescent psychiatry fellowship at the University of Chicago, he held several academic positions at the same institution. He went on to become the medical director of the Chicago Lakeshore Hospital, Director of Inpatient Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Chicago, and Director of Forensic Psychiatry at the NYU Child Study Center.
Dr. Ravitz now runs his own private practice in New York City and has opened a gallery with his wife.
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