David H. Strauss, M.D., is Deputy Director for Research, New York State Psychiatric Institute as well as Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Vice Chairman for Research Administration, Department of Psychiatry. He is also Co-Director of the HIV Center's Ethics and Policy Core.

Dr. Strauss has spent his academic career in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia. In 1989, Dr. Strauss became an attending research psychiatrist and soon after Chief of the Schizophrenia Research Unit at NYSPI. From 1994 to 2000, he served at the Clinical Director of the New York State Psychiatric Institute and Chair of the NYSPI Ethics Committee.

In 2000, Dr. Strauss was appointed Chair of the the department's Institutional Review Board. In 2004, he was named Director of the Office of Human Subject's Research. In 2010, Dr. Strauss was appointed Vice Chairman for Research Administration, Ethics, and Policy and Deputy Director for Research at NYSPI. Dr. Strauss is also currently a member of the executive committee of the administrative council for the CU Center for Bioethics; a member of the CU Conflict of Interest Committee; and Chair of Columbia's Standing Committee on the Conduct of Science. Since 2007 Dr. Strauss has been a member of the U.S. Department of Health Secretary's Advisory Committee on Human Subjects Protection.

Dr. Strauss teaches research and professional ethics at NYSPI and Columbia. He lectures widely on research ethics. In his office-based practice of general psychiatry, Dr. Strauss' expertise is in the combined psychotherapy and medication management of depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia spectrum disorders and in psychopharmacology consultation.

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