Jason Gandelman, MD

Dr. Jason Gandelman graduated cum laude from Harvard with an undergraduate degree in Neurobiology and Anthropology. At Harvard, he studied with the fathers of Medical Anthropology Dr. Arthur Kleinman and Dr. Paul Farmer to conduct ethnographic research on elder care throughout China. He was then selected for a merit scholarship to attend Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, where he received a grant for an additional year to conduct clinical research in Late-life Depression. This work was published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.

He completed psychiatry residency at UCSF (University of California, San Francisco: recently ranked 4th among all US Psychiatry Residencies). At UCSF, he received a grant from the National Institutes on Aging (NIA) for further Late-life Depression research using machine learning to predict which patients benefit most from talk psychotherapy. This work was chosen for presentation at the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry (AAGP) Annual Meeting in 2024. Also in San Francisco, Dr. Gandelman was selected for a special 2 year training program in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis.

Dr. Gandelman then moved back to the NYC area where he grew up and was selected for a Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship at Columbia University Medical Center and New York State Psychiatric Institute. Dr. Gandelman has published clinical research in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, Biological Psychiatry, Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging and has over 50 citations from this work.

Dr. Gandelman also has extensive clinical experience working with patients of all ages and in emergency psychiatry settings, inpatient psychiatric and medical hospitals, and in the outpatient setting with long term medication management and psychotherapy.