Harold Pincus, MD

Harold Alan Pincus, M.D. is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, Co-Director of the Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research at Columbia University, and Director of Quality and Outcomes Research at New York Presbyterian Hospital. Dr. Pincus also serves as a Senior Scientist at the RAND Corporation an adjunct professor at Weill-Cornell, UCLA and USUHS. Previously, he was Director of the RAND-University of Pittsburgh Health Institute and Executive Vice Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh. 

He is the National Director of the Health and Aging Policy Fellowship (supported by the Atlantic Philanthropies and John A. Hartford Foundation) and previously directed the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s national program Depression in Primary Care: Linking Clinical and Systems Strategies and the Hartford Foundation’s national program Building Interdisciplinary Geriatric Research Centers. Dr. Pincus has also served as the Deputy Medical Director of the American Psychiatric Association and the founding director of APA’s Office of Research. Prior to joining the APA, he was the Special Assistant to the Director of the National Institute of Mental Health.