Dr. Steven Lamberti is Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Severe Mental Disorders Program at the University of Rochester Medical Center & Family Institute Principal Investigator. He received his MD from the University of Missouri, and completed his psychiatry residency and a neuropsychiatry fellowship at the University of Rochester where he currently oversees schizophrenia treatment and research. Dr. Lamberti’s career is dedicated to developing new treatment and rehabilitation approaches for adults with schizophrenia and other severe mental disorders, especially those at risk for repeated hospitalization, arrest and incarceration. An investigator in the NIMH Clinical Antipsychotic Trials of Intervention Effectiveness (CATIE) study, he has conducted numerous clinical drug trials evaluating both FDA-approved and novel medications. Dr. Lamberti has also received funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to develop and evaluate Project Link, a novel approach for preventing jail recidivism among high-risk adults with severe mental disorders. For their work with Project Link, Dr. Lamberti and his colleagues received the 1999 American Psychiatric Association’s Gold Award. Dr. Lamberti is also a recipient of the 2004 APA Van Ameringen Award for Psychiatric Rehabilitation, and he is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.