Dr. Gordon has served as Director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) since 2016. Dr. Gordon earned his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, San Francisco, and completed a Psychiatry residency at Columbia University, where he served on the faculty from 2004 until he left to join NIMH. Dr. Gordon’s research employs an integrative systems approach towards understanding the neurobiology underlying working memory and its disruption by genes of relevance to schizophrenia, demonstrating the role of neural dynamics in neural communication and describing how genetic variance confers risk for disease by altering these dynamics. Dr. Gordon is a member of the National Academy of Medicine. His work has been recognized by the Rising Star Award from the International Mental Health Research Organization, the A.E. Bennett Award from the Society of Biological Psychiatry, and the Daniel H. Efron Research Award from the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology.