Richard Mayer, M.D., M.S.W.

Richard Mayer was born, raised, and educated in New York City. He received his BA in Sociology from Fordham University in 1972 and his Master’s in Social Service from Fordham University in 1978. He graduated from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University in 1989. He completed his internship and residence in psychiatry at the Mt. Sinai Medical Center in New York City in 1992. He completed his child and adolescence psychiatry fellowship at the St. Vincent’s Hospital in 1994. He is board certified in both Psychiatry and in Child and Adolescence Psychiatry.

After completing training, he worked at the Mental Health Services Clinic at the Family Courts from 1994 to 1995. He also worked as a psychiatrist in the Manhattan House of Detention. Since then he has divided his time between work with children, the chronically mentally ill, and the developmentally disabled in his clinical practice and forensic work in Family Courts and Supreme Courts.

Dr. Mayer serves on the Mental Health Committee to screen mental health professional applicants for the 18-B panel in New York State. He also serves as a statewide consultant to the New York State Office of Mental Health regarding cases involving the developmentally disabled who are also mentally ill.

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