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Michael T. Compton, M.D., M.P.H. is Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University and a Research Psychiatrist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute.

After medical school at the University of Virginia, Dr. Compton trained in general psychiatry, preventive medicine, public health, and community psychiatry, all at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. He served on faculty as an Assistant Professor, and then tenured Associate Professor, at Emory from 2003 to 2010. He then served as Professor and Director of Research Initiatives in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at The George Washington University School of Medicine, from 2011 to 2013. Upon relocating to New York, he was Chairman of Psychiatry at Lenox Hill Hospital in the Upper East Side-and Professor of Psychiatry at Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine-from 2013 until the fall of 2016 when he joined Columbia and New York State.

Dr. Compton has maintained continuous NIMH research funding for 20 years, conducting research on first-episode psychosis, the CIT model of collaboration between law enforcement and mental health, and community-based mental health services. His research has led to more than 275 publications. His primary area of research relates to criminal justice over-involvement among individuals with serious mental illnesses, most usually for minor misdemeanor charges. He is also very interested in incorporating public health and prevention into psychiatry, one means of which is by addressing the social determinants of health. His books include a manual for police officers responding to persons with mental illnesses, a guide for patients with first-episode psychosis and their family members, a textbook on the complex connection between marijuana and schizophrenia, and seven American Psychiatric Association books, including The Social Determinants of Mental Health (2015) and Food, Nutrition, and Mental Health (2025).