Dr. Philip R. Szeszko, Jr. received his M.B.A. and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from St. John’s University and completed his postdoctoral training in neuroscience at the Zucker Hillside Hospital in Glen Oaks, NY. He is currently an Associate Investigator within the Feinstein Institute of Medical Research and Associate Professor in the Department of Molecular Medicine and the Department of Psychiatry at the Hofstra North Shore – LIJ School of Medicine. He is also the Director of the Psychiatry Research Neuroimaging Laboratory at the Zucker Hillside Hospital. Szeszko’s research combines multimodal neuroimaging, including diffusion tensor imaging and functional magnetic resonance imaging to map the neurobiology of brain abnormalities that play a role in vulnerability pathways in disorders such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder and their functional correlates. Another focus of his work is on imaging-genetics to characterize gene effects on brain structure and function. Szeszko has received funding from the Scottish Rite Schizophrenia Research Program, American Psychological Association, Brain and Behavior Foundation (Young Investigator and Independent Investigator Awards), DANA Foundation, International Obsessive-Compulsive Research Foundation and American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. He has also received a K01 (Mentored Research Scientist Development Award) and R01 funding from the National Institute of Mental Health. He is an active peer reviewer for 10 scientific journals and sits on the Editorial Boards of Progress in Neuro-psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry, Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging and Schizophrenia Research and Treatment. He has authored or co-authored over 75 peer-reviewed manuscripts and is a member of the North Shore – LIJ Institutional Review Board.