Author: Ragy R. Girgis

Ragy Girgis, MD, MS, is an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the Columbia University Department of Psychiatry and New York State Psychiatric Institute. He is an expert in severe mental illness, and in particular schizophrenia, with a focus on brain imaging as well as the development of experimental treatments. Dr. Girgis has published 80 peer-reviewed scientific papers in these fields and has also published, as first author, two book chapters pertaining to treatment and the neurobiology of schizophrenia, as well as a third as a co-author. Dr. Girgis is also a practicing Christian.