Full public curriculum vitae
Ryan S. Sultan, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
Columbia University Irving Medical Center
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Education
2011 - Doctor of Medicine (MD)
Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
2006 - Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science
Trinity College, Hartford, CT
Human Relations Award
Post-Doctoral Training
2021-2026 - NIDA Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Program (K12)
Columbia Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Department of Psychiatry
Focus: Bioinformatics and Substance Use
Mentors: Frances Levin, MD and Tim Wilens, MD (Mass General/Harvard)
New York, NY
NIMH Translational Research Fellowship (T32)
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, Department of Psychiatry
Focus: Child Mental Health Epidemiology and Psychopharmacology
Mentors: Mark Olfson, MD MPH, and Jeremy Veenstra-VanderWeele, MD
New York, NY
2014-2016 - Fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia and Cornell
Department of Psychiatry
New York, NY
2011-2014 - Residency Training in General Psychiatry
Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry
Atlanta, GA
PGY-2 & PGY-3 VA rotations: Department of Veterans Affairs, with Erica Duncan, MD. Research included an evaluation of changes to clozapine monitoring guidelines; see the published analysis.
2014 - Certificate in Psychoanalytic Studies
Emory School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Psychoanalytic Institute
Atlanta, GA
Professional Positions
Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY
Current institutional appointment
2016 - Present
Attending Psychiatrist
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
New York, NY
2015 - Present
Medical Director
Integrative Psych - Learn about our integrative approach
New York, NY
2016 - 2018
Inpatient Attending Physician
Mount Sinai Hospital - Adult Psychiatry Units (Clark 8 & 7G)
New York, NY
2013 - 2014
Psychiatric Emergency Room Physician
Georgia Regional Hospital
Atlanta, GA
Honors & Awards
2019 - Excellence in Teaching, Columbia and Creedmoor Residents
2018 - Chief Fellow, Columbia University Irving Medical Center
2006 - Human Relations Award, Trinity College
Board Certifications
2016 - American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology - Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
2015 - American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology - General Psychiatry
Additional Certifications & Training
Massachusetts General Hospital at Harvard Medical School - Positivity And Relaxing Training (PART) Program
EMDR Institute - EMDR Therapy Training
DELE Spanish Language Certification - B2 Intermediate Level
Medical Licensure
New York — Medical license #275559
Virginia — Medical license #0101269261
Montana — Medical license #MED-PHYS-LIC-156069
Florida — Out-of-State Telehealth Provider Registration #TPME5432
Credential types and verification sources
Research support
Research support has included the NIDA institutional career development program (K12), NIMH research training (T32), an AACAP pilot research award, and Columbia institutional support.
See the research support overview and publications for context.
Selected Publications
Cannabis Use Among US Adolescents.
Sultan RS, Zhang AW, Becker TD, Sethaputra P, Simon KM, Huang Y, Levin FR, Levy S, Olfson M. Pediatrics. 2026;157(1):e2024070509. doi:10.1542/peds.2024-070509
Protective Effects of ADHD Medication on Real-World Outcomes. Invited editorial.
Sultan RS, Saunders DC, Veenstra-VanderWeele J. JAMA Psychiatry. 2025;82(8):757–758. doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2025.0918
Nondisordered Cannabis Use Among US Adolescents.
Sultan RS, Zhang AW, Olfson M, Kwizera MH, Levin FR. JAMA Network Open. 2023;6(5):e2311294. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.11294
Selected publications · PubMed author search · Google Scholar profile
Sultan RS, Wang S, Crystal S, Olfson M. "Antipsychotic Treatment Among Youths With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder." JAMA Network Open. 2019;2(7):e197850.
Clinical Education & Presentations
Selected Teaching Materials:
Tantrums & Emotional Dysregulation in School-Aged Children - Clinical Grand Rounds
Catatonia in Children and Adolescents - Pediatric Neuropsychiatry Case Conference
Neuroscience-Based Nomenclature for ADHD Medications - JAACAP Letter
View all presentations | Teaching experience
Professional Organizations & Committees
Memberships & Leadership Positions
2023 - Present
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP)
Pharmacology and Neurotherapeutics Committee
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP), member
Journal Reviewer
2025
American Journal of Psychiatry
The British Journal of Psychiatry (BJPsych)
BMJ Group
JAACAP Open
JAMA Network Open
09/2025
Springer Nature Reviewer Communities (BMC Psychiatry)
Consultative Positions
2020 - 2023
Avenues The World School, Chelsea Campus
Consultation On Youth Mental Health During The COVID-19 Pandemic
New York, NY
2017 - 2018
New York Center for Autism Charter School
Behavioral & Psychopharmacological Consultation
New York, NY
Advisory and Media Roles
Recovered.org - Medical Advisor
Shortlister - Medical Advisory Board
Qwoted - Expert Platform for Media
Media & Public Engagement
Selected interviews and public commentary
Research Interests
Psychopharmacoepidemiology
ADHD treatment patterns and outcomes
Cannabis use disorders and psychosis
Digital therapeutics and AI/LLM interventions
Digital mental health and social media impacts
Health services research and treatment access
Administrative Leadership & Academic Service
Academic Service
2023 - Present - American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Pharmacology and Neurotherapeutics Committee
Sept 2013 - Oct 2014 - Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Issues, AACAP Committee
July 2011 - June 2014 - Residency Education Committee, Department of Psychiatry, Emory SOM
February 2012 - June 2014 - Department of Psychiatry Education Committee, Emory SOM
December 2011 - June 2013 - Ethics Committee, Grady Memorial Hospital, Emory SOM
September 2011 - Quality Academy: Leadership for Healthcare Improvement, Emory SOM
Administrative Leadership at CUIMC and NYP
Sept 2015 - June 2016 - Tricampus Committee on Child Psychiatry Training Outpatient Services, NYP Hospital
Educational Contributions
Direct Teaching/Precepting/Supervising
2021 - Present - Integrative Psych Lecture Series
Lead instructor for 10 licensed clinicians, weekly throughout the year
2023 - Seminar in Psychotherapy
Co-Lecturer, Columbia University undergraduate students, 1 semester
July 2016 - June 2018 - Columbia Psychiatry Residency
Supervisor, weekly clinic at I6
2014 - 2019 - Advanced Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Lecturer, 10 Creedmoor/Columbia residents, 3 hours/week
2014 - 2016 - Medical Student and Resident Teaching, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Resident teacher, Weill Cornell and Columbia, 1 hour/week
2011 - 2014 - Medical Student Teaching, General Psychiatric Principles
Resident teacher, Emory School of Medicine, 1 hour/week
2015 - Pediatric Teaching Rounds: Emotional Dysregulation
Course Lecturer, 30 residents and attending at Cornell Medical College
2016 - Pediatric Teaching Rounds: Catatonia
Course Lecturer, 15 residents and attending at Cornell Medical College
Educational Administration & Leadership
January 2021 - Present - Director of Sultan Lab at Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Team of 7 researchers
2014 - Present - Director of Integrative Psych
Team of 10 clinicians
Book/Textbook Chapters
Sultan, R. S., Zhang, A., & Levin, F. R. "Adult Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Patients with Substance Use Disorders." 2021.
Poster Presentations
Sultan, R. S., & Zhang, A. (2024). "Impact of Cannabis on ADHD and Comorbid Conditions." AACAP, Orlando, FL.
Sultan, R. S., Zhang, A., Levin, F. R., Wilens, T., & Olfson, M. (2024). K12 Retreat. AACAP, New York, NY.
Sultan, R. S., Zhang, A., & Levin, F. R. (2023). "Patterns and Associations of Cannabis Use Among US Adolescents." American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry, San Diego, CA.
Sultan, R. S., Zhang, A., & Levin, F. R. (2023). "Patterns and Associations of Substance Use Among US Adolescents." AACAP, New York, NY.
Sultan, R. S., Zhang, A., & Levin, F. R. (2022). "Mental Health and Life Events in Adolescents with Substance Use Disorders in the United States." College on Problems of Drug Dependence, Minneapolis, MN.
Sultan, R. S. (2022). K12 Mini-Retreat. AACAP, New York, NY.
Sultan, R. S., Mohatt, J. M., & Walkup, J. T. (2019). "ADHD Outcomes and Impairments: Beyond a Childhood Disorder." APA, San Francisco, CA.
Sultan, R. S., & Olfson, M. (2016). "National Rates of Psychotropic Medication Prescribing in Pediatric Populations." AACAP, New York, NY.
Sultan, R. S., & Olfson, M. (2016). "Rates of Psychotropic Prescribing Among Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults." Congress of AEPNYA/AACAP, San Sebastian, Spain.
Sultan, R. S., Duncan, E., & Olfson, M. (2016). "Changes in FDA Guidelines for Clozapine Monitoring System in the Veteran Affairs Medical System." APA, Atlanta, GA.
Sultan, R. S., Carroll, C. L., Smith, S. R., & Zucker, A. R. (2007). "Obesity Increases ICU Asthma Admission in Children." Pediatric Academic Societies, Toronto, Canada.
Walkup, J. T., & Sultan, R. S. (2018). "ADHD and Comorbidity." IACAPAP, Prague, Czech Republic.
Sultan, R. S., Olfson, M., & Posner, J. (2018). "Antipsychotics and ADHD: Clinical Factors Associated with Antipsychotic Prescribing in Youth with ADHD." IACAPAP, Prague, Czech Republic.
Environmental Science Publications
Geiss, C. E., Abrams, J. L., & Sultan, R. S. (2005). "Multi-Proxy Analysis of Lake Sediments from Western Connecticut Reveals Changes in Past Environments and Land Use." EOS Transactions AGU, 86(18).
Geiss, C. E., Abrams, J. L., Sultan, R. S., & Rodriguez, E. A. (2005). "Multi-Proxy Analysis of Lake Sediments Reveals Paleo-Environmental Change in Western Connecticut Throughout the Holocene." Geological Society of America Abstracts, 37(5), 72.
Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications
Sultan, R. S. (2020). "Coping with the Crisis: How to Help Our Children." Shelter Island Reporter.
Sultan, R. S. (2020). "Coping with the Crisis: What We Know." Shelter Island Reporter.
Sultan, R. S. (2020). "Re-Entry Anxiety." Shelter Island Reporter.
Sultan, R. S. (2020). "Settling into a New Life." Shelter Island Reporter.
Sultan, R. S. (2020). "Past Fear, Masks, and Back to an Island Tradition." Shelter Island Reporter.
Invited & Peer-Selected Presentations
March 27, 2026 - Columbia Data Science Institute, AI Companion Workshop: AI Companions & the Future of Care
October 10, 2024 - U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) — Invited Presenter, Cannabis Access and Safety in New York (CASNY) Study: Phase I (Youth Advertising & Access), Phase II (Packaging and Labeling Analysis), Phase III (Chemical Accuracy and Safety)
January 17, 2026 - The American Professional Society of ADHD and Related Disorders (APSARD), Saturday Morning Plenary: Do Stimulant Medications Prevent Substance Use?
December 4, 2025 - Invited Talk on Emerging Issues on Addiction & CASNY Pilot Phase I, II, and III - A Multi-dimensional analysis of cannabis in the NYC area (with Dr. Becker)
Invited Grand Rounds and Case Conference at Creedmoor Psychiatric on Clozapine Treatment
Additional publication records
Sultan RS, Zhang AW, Becker TD, Sethaputra P, Simon KM, Huang Y, Levin FR, Levy S, Olfson M.
Pediatrics. 2026;157(1):e2024070509.
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2024-070509 | [PDF]
Sultan RS, Saunders DC, Veenstra-VanderWeele J.
JAMA Psychiatry. 2025;82(8):757–758. Invited editorial.
DOI: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2025.0918 | [PDF]
Labeling of Cannabis Products from Licensed and Unlicensed Retailers in New York City
Becker TD, Menzi P, Sultan RS.
American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2025.
Part of the CASNY Study
MIND: Empowering Mental Health Clinicians with Multimodal Data Insights through a Narrative Dashboard
Zou R, Xu S, Morris ME, Ryu J, Becker TD, Allen N, Albano AM, Auerbach R, Adler D, Mishra V, Padilla L, Wang D, Sultan R, Xu X.
Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
ACM publication · Author manuscript
Antipsychotic Treatment Among Youths With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
Sultan RS, Wang S, Crystal S, Olfson M.
JAMA Network Open. 2019;2(7):e197850.
DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2019.7850 | [PDF]
Becker T, Olfson M, Menzi P, Levin F, Hasin D, Nuckolls C, Sultan RS.
Pediatrics. 2025.
Part of the CASNY Study | [PDF]
Sultan RS, Zhang AW, Olfson M, Kwizera MH, Levin FR.
JAMA Network Open. 2023;6(5):e2311294.
DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.11294 | [PDF]
Evaluating the Effect of Changes in FDA Guidelines for Clozapine Monitoring
Sultan RS, Olfson M, Correll CU, Duncan EJ.
Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. 2017;78(8):e933-e939.
DOI: 10.4088/JCP.16m11152 | [PDF]
Adolescents with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Adverse Behaviors and Comorbidity
Sultan RS, Liu SM, Hacker KA, Olfson M.
Journal of Adolescent Health. 2021;68(2):284-291. | [PDF]
What's in a Name? Moving to Neuroscience-Based Nomenclature in Pediatric Psychopharmacology
Sultan RS, Correll CU, Zohar J, Zalsman G, Veenstra-VanderWeele J.
Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. 2018;57(10). DOI: 10.1016/j.jaac.2018.05.024 | [PDF]
Beneficial Pre-ECT Ketamine Infusion in a Patient with Treatment-Resistant Depression
Sultan R, Riva-Posse P, Garlow SJ, Schwartz AC.
Psychosomatics. 2014;55(4):396-399.
DOI: 10.1016/j.psym.2013.12.002 | PMID: 24735865
Sultan RS, Correll CU, Schoenbaum M, King M, Walkup JT, Olfson M.
Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology. 2018;28(3):158-165. | [PDF]
Publication summaries and source records · PubMed author search