Herb Pardes

Dr. Herbert Pardes is the CEO of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. He was previously president of Presbyterian Hospital; when the latter merged with New York Hospital he became CEO of the combined entity.

He is a former Dean of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Before becoming dean, Pardes was chair of Columbia's department of psychiatry, where he remains a professor. He is a national figure in psychiatry and academic medicine.

From 1978 to 1984, he was director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), where he strengthened the Institute's research program and emphasized the need to increase research support for psychiatry.

From 1989 he was president of American Psychiatric Association (APA).

He is also a member of Institute of Medicine, president of Scientific Board of the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD), a charter associate member of the National Depressive and Manic Depressive Association (NDMDA), and a regular advisor to National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI), the Anxiety Disorders Association of America, and Mental Health Association.

Pardes lives near the main Columbia campus in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan.