Board Member

Dr. Ran Barzilay is a Child and Adolescent Psychiatry specialist and Neuroscientist that brings a multidisciplinary experience and unique insight as a practicing physician, psychiatrist and researcher. He is currently the Research Associate at the Lifespan Brain Institute of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and UPenn Medicine, and psychiatry consultant for Preschool Day Care of children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD). He was previously the resident psychiatrist at Geha Mental Health Center and a fellow researcher in the Felsenstein Medical Research Center Neuroscience Laboratory at Tel Aviv University. He brings strong expertise in basic and translational neuroscience research in the fields of developmental psychopathology and stress related disorders. Dr. Barzilay received his medical degree, PhD and BSc at Sackler Faculty of Medicine in Tel-Aviv University, Israel. He has also published numerous, highly-cited papers in leading peer-reviewed medical journals, written a book chapter, presented many abstracts at international conferences and has received several honors and awards during his studies.