Herbert Pardes is the president and chief executive officer of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.

Education:
Dr. Pardes graduated summa cum laude from Rutgers University in 1956 and received his medical degree from the State University of New York, College of Medicine (Brooklyn), in 1960. He did his internship and residency in psychiatry at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn. He completed his psychoanalytic training at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute.

Background:
He served as U.S. Assistant Surgeon General and Director of the National Institute of Mental Health during the Carter and Reagan Administrations (1978-84). Since 1989, he has served as Vice President for Health Sciences for Columbia University and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of Columbia's College of Physicians & Surgeons, positions that he has held concurrently with his position as Chairman of Columbia's Department of Psychiatry, which he assumed in 1984. While serving as Chairman of Psychiatry, he has also held the corresponding positions of Director of the Psychiatry Service at The Presbyterian Hospital (now the Columbia Presbyterian Center of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital) and Director of the New York State Psychiatric Institute.

As Dean of Columbia's Faculty of Medicine, Dr. Pardes has overseen major changes in the education of physicians, enhanced clinical and basic science research, and assumed a national role as an advocate for education, health care reimbursement reform, and support of biomedical research.

He served as Chairman of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) for 1995-96 and was Chairman of the AAMC's Council of Deans for 1994-95. He served two two-year terms as Chairman of the New York Association of Medical Schools. In 1997, he was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.

Dr. Pardes has had a distinguished career in the field of psychiatry. He has served as chairman of the psychiatry departments at the State University of New York, Downstate; the University of Colorado Medical Center; and Columbia. He served as President of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) for 1989-90 and as Chairman of the APA's Council on Research (1990-94). In 1986, he served as Chairman of the Association of Chairmen of Departments of Psychiatry.

Dr. Pardes is on the editorial boards of numerous medical and psychiatric journals and has written over one hundred articles and chapters on diverse topics in mental health. He has created, conducted and negotiated many international collaborations, working with governments in India, China, Egypt, Israel and the former Soviet Union.

Board member, Markle Foundation
Scientific Advisory Committee member, Research! America
Board member, Hereditary Disease Foundation

He has earned numerous awards and accolades, including election to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the Sarnat International Prize in Mental Health, and the U.S. Army Commendation Medal.

Pardes has been appointed to serve on commissions related to health policy by Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, including the Presidential Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Healthcare Industry and the Commission on Systemic Interoperability. Dr. Pardes also chaired the Intramural Research Program Planning Committee of the NIH from 1996 to 1997. He is the former chairman of the Greater New York Hospital Association, the Association of American Medical Colleges and the New York Association of Medical Schools.