Robert Michels, M.D.
Professor of Medicine, Cornell University, and Professor of Psychiatry, Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Robert Michels, M.D. is the Walsh McDermott University Professor of Medicine at Cornell University and a University Professor of Psychiatry at Cornell’s Weill Medical College of Cornell University.
He served as the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean of Cornell University Medical College and Provost for Medical Affairs of Cornell University from 1991 to 1996. He served as the Barklie McKee Henry Professor and Chairman of Cornell University Medical College’s Department of Psychiatry and Psychiatrist-in-Chief of The New York Hospital, Payne Whitney Clinic and Westchester Division from 1974 to 1991. He is a past President of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, past President of the American College of Psychiatrists, past President of the American Association of Chairmen of Departments of Psychiatry, and a former member of the Board on Mental Health and Behavioral Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine.
A graduate of the University of Chicago and the Northwestern University Medical School, Dr. Michels trained in Psychiatry at Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute and in Psychoanalysis at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research.