Dr. Steven Chao graduated magna cum laude from Brown University. He received an M.D. and a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University. As a graduate student at Columbia, he performed research on the sense of smell in the laboratory of Dr. Richard Axel, recipient of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Medicine. Dr. Chao began his postgraduate training as an Assistant Surgeon (Intern) and Resident in Neurological Surgery at New York Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical College and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. He completed his Residency in Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Hospital. After four years in private practice in the District of Columbia, he joined the faculty of the Payne Whitney Clinic as Assistant Attending Physician at New York Presbyterian Hospital and Instructor in Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College. He returned to Hopkins as a Fellow in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, where he served as Chief Resident. Dr. Chao is certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in General Psychiatry and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.