Joshua R Wortzel, MD, MPhil, MS

Dr. Wortzel completed his child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at Brown University and now serves young adults in an intensive outpatient program. He chairs the American Psychiatric Association’s Committee on Climate Change and Mental Health and co-chairs the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry's Committee on Climate Change. He is also a fellow of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry think tank’s Climate and Mental Health Committee, part of the Climate Psychiatry Alliance steering committee, and a 2024-25 National Institute of Mental Health Climate and Health Scholar. His research focuses on the effects of heat on affective disorders and suicide in young people, and the mental health impact of climate change distress