Dr. Alex Kolevzon is a child and adolescent psychiatrist and Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Since 2007, he has served as the Clinical Director of the Seaver Autism Center for Research and Treatment at Mount Sinai and, since 2014, as the Director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry for the Mount Sinai Health System. His research focuses on understanding the neurobiology of autism and related neurodevelopmental disorders, biomarker discovery, and developing novel therapeutics. For the past two decades, his group has been dedicated to studying specific rare genetic forms of autism in order to explore targets for pharmacological intervention. Dr. Kolevzon leads the Experimental Therapeutics Program at the Seaver Autism Center, which conducts studies that range from small pilot trials to multi-centered pivotal FDA studies. He is a frequently invited speaker regionally, nationally, and internationally and is also extremely committed to medical student and residency education as an active teacher, mentor, and clinical supervisor.
