Highlights

• Senior Medical Director of Columbia University's Psychiatry Faculty Practice Organization

• Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at CUMC

• Specializes in interventional psychiatry for treatment resistant mood disorders

Experience

Jacques Ambrose, MD, MPH, FAPA, is a Psychiatrist at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. He serves as the Senior Medical Director of Columbia University's Psychiatry Faculty Practice Organization. He offers procedures for treatment-resistant mood disorders, including transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), esketamine, ketamine, and electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). He has served as a subspecialist consultant through the Mass General Brigham Connected Health in operations management and design thinking, as well as a private consultant in user engagement, market entry, diversity/equity/inclusion (DEI) program development, wellness promotion, and burnout prevention for mid-to-large companies, executives, and management leaders.

Education

Dr. Ambrose received his medical degree from Dartmouth's Geisel School of Medicine and Massachusetts General Hospital. He also received public health training at the National Center for Primary Care, and value-based healthcare training at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice. He received a master’s in Healthcare Management and Public Policy from Harvard University. He completed research and clinical fellowships at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), McLean Hospital, the American Psychiatric Association, the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), and was a Commonwealth Minority Health Fellow at Harvard Medical School.