Leo Sher, MD is a psychiatrist with a background in internal medicine. His areas of research and clinical expertise include neurobiology, diagnosis, and treatment of mood, anxiety, and personality disorders, alcoholism, and suicidal behavior. He is Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Director of the Inpatient Psychiatry Service at the James J Peters VA Medical Center in New York. He has authored about 600 scientific publications, is a reviewer for numerous medical journals, the recipient of several awards and the first researcher in North America who introduced the use of the combined dexamethasone suppression/corticotropin-releasing hormone stimulation test for psychiatric purposes. Dr. Sher has experience as a forensic psychiatric expert and consultant.

Timothy Rice, M.D., is a clinical fellow in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He attained his B.S. in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology from Yale University and his M.D. from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University. He completed his residency in general psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He is a former fellow of the American Psychoanalytic Association. His research interests include the development and implementation of a brain-based psychotherapy program targeted to the psychobiology and developmental deficits of high risk male children, pre-adolescents, and adolescents.