Lloyd Sederer

Lloyd Sederer, MD, is an adjunct professor at the Columbia University School of Public Health.In 2013, Dr. Sederer was given the Irma Bland Award for Excellence in Teaching Residents by the American Psychiatric Association, which in 2009 had recognized him as the Psychiatric Administrator of the Year. He has been awarded a Scholar-in-Residence grant by the Rockefeller Foundation and an Exemplary Psychiatrist Award from the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). In 2019, he received the Doctor of the Year award from The National Council on Behavioral Healthcare (representing over 3,000 mental health, addiction, and social service organizations serving over 10 million patients).He has published seven books for professional audiences and, with this book, six for lay audiences, as well as 500 articles in medical journals, non-medical publications, and book, film, TV, and theatre reviews. His writings have appeared in The New York Times / International Herald Tribune, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, The NY Daily News, The Washington Post, The Boston Business Journal, Commonweal Magazine, and Psychology Today, among other publications. He was, for 7 years, the medical editor for Mental Health for the HuffPost, where over 250 of his posts and videos appeared. He also wrote a regular opinion column on mental health and the addictions for US News & World Report. He has taught medical writing for the lay public at Columbia Medical School for 18 sequential semesters.