Jan Schuetz-‐Mueller, MD.
2012 Faculty Recruits
Dr. Schuetz-‐Mueller will serve as Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Unit Chief of an adult inpa;ent psychiatric unit where he specializes in working with pa;ents who have severe chronic mental illness. In his new role, Dr. Schuetz-‐Mueller will treat pa;ents and teach medical students and residents. As Associate Director of the Mount Sinai Program in Global Mental Health, he will coordinate several projects at interna;onal field sites that will improve psychiatric care in foreign countries. Such projects include developing child and adolescent psychiatry in Belize and crea;ng an Alcoholics Anonymous program in the Caribbean islands of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. He will also mentor medical students and residents in the global health track. Dr. Schuetz-‐Mueller completed his residency in psychiatry and a fellowship in psychiatric hospitalism and administra;on at Mount Sinai. He earned his doctorate in medicine from the Medical University of Vienna in Austria. Dr. Paul Slesinger, PhD Dr. Slesinger comes from Salk Ins;tute and has established a na;onal and interna;onal reputa;on for his cuLng-‐edge research on neural and synap;c plas;city within the brain’s reward circuitry that underlies natural reward and drug and alcohol addic;on. He is a widely recognized expert in using advanced electrophysiological recording techniques along with mouse mutagenesis, in conjunc;on with behavioral models of reward and addic;on, to bridge molecular, cellular, and behavioral inves;ga;ons.
Eli Stahl, PhD.
Dr. Stahl will serve as Assistant Professor and be engaged in full-‐;me academic ac;vi;es in the new Center for Sta;s;cal Gene;cs, which is jointly based in the Departments of Psychiatry, and Gene;cs and Genomic Sciences. Throughout his career, Dr. Stahl has established a na;onal reputa;on for developing and applying novel methods in studies of complex disease. Recently, his research on polygenic modeling to inform gene;c architecture was featured as part of a first-‐ author manuscript in Nature Gene;cs. In his new role, Dr. Stahl will help strengthen our exper;se in genomics and genomic medicine, par;cularly in the applica;on of gene;c methods to other non-‐psychiatric illness. He will work closely with the Ins;tute of Genomics and Mul;scale Biology, and the Ins;tute for Personalized Medicine, to foster collabora;on among Mount Sinai researchers.
Prior to joining Mount Sinai, Dr. Stahl was a research associate in the Division of Rheumatology, Immunology, and Allergy at Brigham and Women’s Hospital at Harvard Medical School and an Affiliated Researcher in the Medical and Popula;on Gene;cs Program at the Broad Ins;tute of Harvard and MIT. He received his doctorate in gene;cs from the University of Chicago and his bachelor degree from the University of California, Davis.