Christoph U. Correll MD

Christoph U. Correll, MD, is a psychiatry professor at the Zucker School of Medicine, as well as professor and chair of the child and adolescent psychiatry department at Charité University Medicine in Berlin, Germany. He completed his medical studies at the Free University of Berlin in Germany and Dundee University Medical School in Scotland. He is board-certified in general psychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry. He completed both residencies at Zucker Hillside Hospital in New York. Since 1997, Dr. Correll has been working and conducting research in New York, and as of 2017, he has begun working in Germany again.

Dr. Correll focuses on early identification and treatment of youth and adults with severe mental illness, psychopharmacology, clinical trials, epidemiology, meta-analyses, and the interface between physical health and mental health. He has published more than 900 articles that have been cited more than 80,000 times, and has received more than 40 research awards. Since 2014, he has been listed annually by Clarivate/Web of Science as one of the most influential scientific minds and among the top 1% cited scientists in psychiatry.

Additionally, Dr. Correll has held numerous Expertscape rankings based on his number of publications and citations in the past 10 years. For 15 topics, he has been ranked “expert” (among the top 1% cited scientists), and for 24 topics, he has been ranked “world expert” (among the top 0.1% cited scientists). He has also been ranked as the No. 1 world expert in more than 10 areas, including central nervous system agents, psychotropic drugs, schizophrenia, schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders, antipsychotics, delayed action preparations, and weight gain.