Dr Marzuk received his Sc.B. in physical chemistry from Brown University, his M.D. from Columbia University, and completed his residency training in medicine and psychiatry at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and The New York Hospital-Payne Whitney Clinic. Dr. Marzuk's research interests center on suicide, homicide, violence, substance abuse and mood disorders. His research is directed at identifying epidemiological, clinical, neuropsychological and neurobiological predictors of suicidal behavior and violence with a goal toward prevention at both the individual and population-based levels. Previously, he served as Vice Chair of the Scientific Council of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and chaired the Foundation's Research Grants Committee. In addition, he conducts research in medical education. Prior to becoming Associate Dean for Education, he served as the Gertrude Feil Associate Dean of Curricular Affairs. Before becoming Associate Dean, Dr Marzuk ran an in-patient mood disorders unit and the psychopharmacology clinic at Payne Whitney Clinic, was Associate Editor of the Archives of General Psychiatry (now JAMA Psychiatry) and was director of medical student education in the Department of Psychiatry. He currently teaches Weill-Cornell students psychopathology and neuropsychopharmacology in Brain and Behavior, an integrated learning unit in neuroscience in the Health, Illness and Disease course and suicide risk assessment in the psychiatry clerkship.