Robert Remien is a Professor of Clinical Medical Psychology in Psychiatry at Columbia University, Division Chief of the Division of Gender, Sexuality, and Health, and Director of the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies at the New York State Psychiatric Institute and the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University. He has also served as a Research Scientist at the HIV Center in Columbia Psychiatry since 1987, leading research programs focused on HIV prevention, care, and treatment in clinical and community-based settings.
Dr. Remien is also the Clinical Director of Behavioral Health for the Northeast Caribbean AIDS Education and Training Center (AETC), and a member of the NY State AIDS Advisory Council Ending the Epidemic Committee. He routinely provides clinical and research mentoring to Fellows, Trainees, and Junior Faculty.
Throughout his career, Dr. Remien has developed a large and diverse portfolio of domestic and international research projects focused on the intersection of prevention and care, including the role of mental health, substance use, and other social determinants of health. Specifically, he has led interdisciplinary research teams that included local community partners in NYC and NYS Departments of Health (DOHs), City and Provincial DOHs in the Western Cape of South Africa, and clinical providers in the US and in South Africa. These have led to innovative combination prevention and treatment interventions that are clinically relevant and being translated into practice in the US and South Africa.