Cancro, Robert

Robert Cancro, M.D., Med. D.Sc.  Chairman Emeritus, Dept. of Psychiatry, New York University School of Med., New York.

Dr. Cancro, a preeminent psychiatrist, is Professor and Chairman Emeritus of Psychiatry at New York University Medical Center. Dr. Cancro was responsible for building the NYU Department of Psychiatry into one of the finest in America. He has served a diverse range of mental health subspecialties, from psychosocial rehabilitation to psychopharmacology to schizophrenia to neuropsychiatry and orthopsychiatry.

Always the innovator, Dr. Cancro was Director of the famed Nathan Kline Research Institute. He developed and directed the first chronic alcoholism rehabilitation unit in New York City, which would become both a prototype and a standard of care for future treatment facilities across the nation. A longtime consultant to the U.S. Secret Service, he is developing a U.S.-Russian research consortium on terrorism and posttraumatic stress disorder.

Dr. Cancro’s research endeavors include over 85 publications. He has published extensively on the epidemiology, diagnosis, and especially the treatment of schizophrenia, and has been on the editorial boards of many journals including Academic Psychiatry, Psychiatric Annals, and the American Journal of Social Psychiatry.

Dr. Cancro is the recipient of numerous awards for clinical achievement and leadership, including the award from the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry that was renamed in his honor, the New York State Office of Mental Health Award, the Irving Blumberg Human Rights Award, and the Progress in Psychiatry Award.