Paul Appelbaum, MD
Enriched profileElizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Psychiatry, Medicine and Law, and Director, Division of Law, Ethics and Psychiatry at Columbia · Columbia University
Paul Appelbaum is Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Psychiatry, Medicine and Law, and Director, Division of Law, Ethics and Psychiatry at Columbia at Columbia University. OpenAlex indexes 1,062 publications with 37,988 citations (h-index 82); ClinicalTrials.gov lists 1 registered study with this person as an investigator. By OpenAlex citation count, this profile ranks in the top 5% of Psychiatry profiles in the findmyKOL directory.
Data verified 24 Oct 2026
Overview
Updated 24 Oct 2026
Paul Appelbaum, M.D., is Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Psychiatry, Medicine and Law, and Director, Division of Law, Ethics and Psychiatry at Columbia at Columbia University. The public record shows 1,062 publications with 37,988 citations (h-index 82), centered on Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints, Ethics and bioethics in healthcare, Ethics in Clinical Research. It also documents an investigator role on 1 registered clinical trials, 10 NIH-funded awards (2010–2026).
- Most recent indexed publication: 2026 · BJPsych open
- Top research focus: Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints
- 1 registered trials on ClinicalTrials.gov
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Indications focus
from trials led + research topicsResearch focus
OpenAlex concept fingerprintWorks with
trial sponsors and companies reporting paymentsScholarship
indexed output and impact (OpenAlex)Distinct works indexed by OpenAlex, matched via ORCID; 32 in PubMed.
Total citations across indexed works.
Hirsch index (OpenAlex). i10-index 463.
Clinical & industry
trials, payments and federal fundingContact
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Practice address
Telephone
Practice address and telephone from the federal NPPES registry.
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Updated 24 Oct 2026
Listed as an investigator on 1 registered study on ClinicalTrials.gov. The most recent:
- Young Adults With Violent Behavior During Early Psychosis (Aim 2)
Sponsor: Columbia University
Industry payments
No payments involving this person were reported to CMS in program years 2021–2024. Why? →
Medicare prescribing footprint (2024)
The drugs this prescriber writes for Medicare patients, grouped by drug class and therapeutic area. Every percentage is a share of their total prescribing, so you can see what they prescribe most. These are proportions, not patient counts or dollar amounts. No condition is inferred: the claims record what was prescribed, never why.
Nervous system
100%SNRI100%Venlafaxine Hcl Er100%Part D<11 patients
Drug classes come from the WHO ATC and U.S. National Library of Medicine (RxClass) classifications; prescribing counts come from the CMS Medicare Part D Prescribers file. Each drug is counted once, under its primary class. Medicare fee-for-service only, so no Medicare Advantage, commercial, or pediatric prescribing is included. CMS publishes this data about 17 months after the fact.
NIH funding
Updated 24 Oct 2026
10 NIH research awards on record, funded 2010–2026 per NIH RePORTER. The latest:
- Genomics-Empowered AI for Personalized Cancer Risk Assessment, Monitoring, and Prevention
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
FY2026$1,547,918UG3AG105083 - Polygenic Prediction of Suicide: Clinical, Ethical and Psychosocial Impact
New York State Psychiatric Institute Dba Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene, Inc
FY2026$991,157RF1MH133213 - 1/5 Clinical Outcome Prediction of Psychosis from EHRs (COPPER)
Columbia University Health Sciences
FY2026$921,159R01MH137679
Congress activity
Updated 24 Oct 2026
1 congress contribution (2020) across AACR per OpenAlex. The most recent:
- Abstract P6-08-16: Evaluation of a decision aid on BRCA1/2 genetic testing in Orthodox Jewish women
AACR (meeting unresolved)
AACR2020Co-authorPoster
Published abstracts are attributed via the same ORCID-disambiguated authorship as publications, so each is DOI-verified. Podium roles (invited talks, session chairs) and oral/poster type are added as program data is confirmed.
Publications
Updated 24 Oct 2026
Their five most recent publications, matched to their ORCID record and linked to PubMed.
- Preferences of research participants with experience receiving individual results for future return of results.
Journal of clinical and translational science
Article2026 - Jailing People With Mental Illness While Awaiting Commitment Hearings.
Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.)
Article2026 - Return of results is important to heterogeneous research participants: A single-site survey.
Journal of clinical and translational science
Article2026 - Imputing Parental Genotypes Through Mendelian Imputation: Ethical and Legal Considerations.
Behavior genetics
Review2026
Most-cited works
by citation count (OpenAlex)- 01
- 02Assessment of Patients' Competence to Consent to TreatmentArticle1,423 citations2007
- 03Assessing Patients' Capacities to Consent to TreatmentArticle1,403 citations1988
- 04False Hopes and Best Data: Consent to Research and the Therapeutic MisconceptionArticle957 citations1987
Network
Updated 24 Oct 2026
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Online presence
Updated 24 Oct 2026
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Owned accounts
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doximity.com/pub/paul-appelbaum-md
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Mentions by others
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bigideasineatingdisorders.podbean.com/e/dr-paul-appelbaum
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columbiapsychiatry.org/profile/paul-s-appelbaum-md
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psychiatrictimes.com/psyched-paul-applebaum-md-transformation-ethics-psychiatry
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Background & recognition
Updated 24 Oct 2026
Credentials, appointments and honors, newest first, each linked to the public source it came from.
Education
degrees and training on record- M.D.
Harvard Medical School
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Psychiatry
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Forensic Psychiatry
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Editorial & leadership roles
journal and society appointments- verifiedCorroborated by findmyKOL. We matched this record across two or more independent public sources (or a verified ORCID / NPI identifier bridge) before attributing it to this person.How we verify →apaf.org ↗
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- Chair
DSM Steering Committee, American Psychiatric Association
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Division of Law, Ethics and Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University
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Awards & honors
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Secondary affiliations
appointments beyond the home institution- New York State Psychiatric Institute
Research Psychiatrist (per Columbia Public Health Sciences)
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Media & interviews
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