Suzanne Garfinkle-Crowell, MD

Suzanne Garfinkle-Crowell, MD, is a psychiatrist based in New York City who treats children, adolescents, and adults. In 2012 she founded the Academy for Medicine and the Humanities at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, which she directs, overseeing courses, funded lecture series, and student scholarly work across the medical arts and humanities. Through the Academy she has collaborated with figures and institutions including Bill Moyers, the New York Philharmonic, the Guggenheim Museum, and Jazz at Lincoln Center, and her students have gone on to publish in academic and creative journals and to create podcasts, performances, exhibitions, and programs of their own alongside their clinical work.

A dedicated teacher, Garfinkle-Crowell has lectured on child development to medical students and psychiatry residents at Mount Sinai and led seminars in clinical writing and narrative medicine at Columbia’s College of Physicians and Surgeons. She has been an invited speaker on narrative medicine, the medical humanities, psychotherapy, and psychiatry at hospitals and national conferences. She studied English at Amherst College, received a Master of Science in theoretical psychoanalysis from University College London, and completed her medical and residency training at Columbia University/New York State Psychiatric Institute and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

Garfinkle-Crowell’s new book is Girlhood, Translated: Understanding Young Women in the Age of Therapy Speak and Self-Diagnosis.