Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry
Director of Obesity and Metabolic Disease Programs, Institute for Community Health
and Research, NYU School of Medicine
Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research
Antonio Convit, M.D., is an Associate Professor
of Psychiatry and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and is the
Director of Metabolic Disease and Obesity Programs at the Institute
for Community Health and Research. After an undergraduate degree
in Epidemiology and Environmental Health from George Washington
University he obtained a Medical Degree from the University
of Chicago and trained in Psychiatry at the New York University
School of Medicine. He has been involved in research and teaching
for nearly 25 years. For the last 8 years, Dr. Convit has focused
on understanding how the brain and cognition are affected in
pre-diabetes and type-2 diabetes. For the last two years Dr.
Convit has been working with overweight and obese adolescents,
with and without type-2 diabetes, to research diabetes' impact
on the adolescent brain. His current research also focuses
on prevention and intervention efforts, particularly for overweight
and obese children.