Team |

Keren Bachi, Ph.D., LCSW, Principal Investigator

A rich clinical background set the stage for Dr. Bachi’s scientific path. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with more than a decade of psychotherapy experience treating adults with substance use disorders and individuals with early adversity with other diagnoses (e.g., PTSD; psychosis), and providing mentorship to graduate students and clinicians in a range of clinical and managerial roles. Following the receipt of her doctoral degree in 2014 at the Silberman School of Social Work, the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, Dr. Bachi was the first Social Work Postdoctoral Fellow at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS). She completed a National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) T32 postdoctoral fellowship in an interdisciplinary training linking neuroscience and systems therapeutics in drug abuse research, training with the Neuroimaging of Addiction and Related Conditions Research Program. In 2018 Dr. Bachi was appointed Assistant Professor at the Departments of Psychiatry (primary) and Environmental Medicine and Public Health (secondary) at ISMMS to facilitate the bridging between research and the clinic at the Addiction Institute of Mount Sinai (AIMS), with emphasis on psychosocial determinants in psychiatric disorders. She received a NIDA K23 Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award (5K23DA045928-02, Project Period: 03/15/2018 – 02/28/2023, IRB Approved Protocol: 18-00820) to examine the behavioral and neural correlates of mentalizing deficits in cocaine addiction, associations with immune dysregulation and childhood maltreatment.