Mentors & collaborators
The Sultan Lab's program has been shaped by formal training mentors, senior scientific advisors, and active research collaborators. Sigmund stands on the work they have built over decades.
K12 & T32 mentors
The mentors of record on Dr. Sultan's NIH NIDA K12 award and his prior T32 research fellowship — the relationships that built the lab.
K12 Primary Mentor · 2021–present
Kennedy-Leavy Professor of Psychiatry
Chief, Division on Substance Use Disorders · Columbia University Irving Medical Center / NYSPI
Primary mentor on the NIDA K12 Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Program. Supervises career development in substance use disorders research; co-author on Pediatrics 2026 cannabis paper.
K12 Co-Mentor
Chief, Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry · MGH Trustees Chair in Addiction Medicine
Massachusetts General Hospital · Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
K12 co-mentor providing expertise on ADHD across the lifespan and substance use disorders. Co-author on the Pediatrics 2026 cannabis paper. h-index 124; ~54,000 citations.
T32 Senior Research Mentor · 2016–2019
Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Psychiatry, Medicine, and Law · Professor of Epidemiology
Columbia University Irving Medical Center · Mailman School of Public Health
T32 senior mentor; co-author on the landmark 2019 JAMA Network Open paper on antipsychotic prescribing in ADHD youth (440+ citations). h-index ~125; 66,000+ citations. Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher. MPI on the MarketScan R01 underpinning Sigmund's Generation 2.
T32 Fellowship Program Director
Jeremy M. Veenstra-VanderWeele, MD
Ruane Professor for the Implementation of Science · Director, Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Columbia University · NYSPI · NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital
T32 fellowship program director overseeing research training. Co-author on the JAMA Psychiatry 2025 paper on protective effects of ADHD medication. ~23,500 citations.
Senior scientific advisors
Senior figures providing scientific oversight across the Sigmund program.
Chair · Columbia Psychiatry
Chair, Department of Psychiatry · Executive Director, NYSPI · Former Director, NIMH (2016–2024)
Columbia University Irving Medical Center · New York State Psychiatric Institute
Former NIMH Director; architect of the IMPACT-MH framework that informs Sigmund's precision-psychiatry approach. Chairs the department at Columbia where Sigmund is being developed and validated.
Director · Computational Psychiatry Program
Director, Computational Psychiatry Program · Florence Irving Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Columbia University Irving Medical Center · New York State Psychiatric Institute
Leads the Computational Psychiatry Program — the institutional home for clinically actionable ML and AI in psychiatric decision-making at Columbia. Methodological collaborator on the multi-vector RAG architecture underlying Sigmund.
Senior Scientific Advisor · PAWS
Anne & Joel Ehrenkranz Dean · Nash Family Professor of Neuroscience · Director, Friedman Brain Institute
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Provides neurobiological validity review for the PAWS digital therapeutic project. h-index 216; 186,953+ citations. National Academy of Sciences (2025) and National Academy of Medicine. Trained under Nobel Laureate Paul Greengard.
Senior Scientific Advisor
Robert L. McNiel Jr. Professor of Translational Research · Chair, Department of Psychiatry · Editor-in-Chief, Biological Psychiatry
Yale University School of Medicine · Yale-New Haven Health System
Endorsed the PAWS project. h-index 200+; 86,158+ citations. National Academy of Medicine. Pioneer in ketamine research for depression.
Research collaborators
Co-investigators and authors on ongoing studies tied to the lab.
PAWS Co-Investigator
Ward-Coleman Chair in Translational Neuroscience · Director, Addiction Institute
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
PAWS study co-investigator. Cannabis and psychosis prevention research. h-index 69–73; 26,000+ citations. National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Medicine. $30M+ NIH funding.
Research Collaborator
Professor of Psychiatry and Molecular Medicine
Zucker Hillside Hospital · Hofstra Northwell
Co-author on psychopharmacoepidemiology studies and neuroscience-based nomenclature (JAACAP 2018). h-index 145; 100,000+ citations. Ranked #1 world expert in antipsychotics (Clarivate, annually since 2014).
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