NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center
Fellowship completed: 2011

Brookdale Hospital Medical Center
Residency completed: 2010

Ross University School of Medicine
Medical School completed: 2006

Medical Doctor - MD

English

Aetna - NYP

Aetna - Weill Cornell

Jimmy N Avari, M.D., is currently an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medicine and an Assistant Attending Psychiatrist in the Department of Psychiatry at Payne Whitney Westchester of New York Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Medical College of Cornell University. Dr. Avari is the Training Director of the Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Program and the Associate Residency Training Director of the Adult Psychiatry Residency.Dr. Avari completed his psychiatry residency at Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center, where he was selected as Chief Resident. He then completed his Geriatric Psychiatry fellowship at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center.Dr. Avari is a well-recognized educator having served as the Training Director of the Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Program and the Assistant Residency Training Director of the Adult Psychiatry Residency since 2014-2020. From 2020- 2021, Dr. Avari served as the Interim Residency Training Director of the Adult Psychiatry Residency, while continuing his role as the Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Program Director. Since 2014, Dr. Avari has also been involved in individual and group mentoring programs of residents, fellows and junior faculty members.Dr. Avari’s clinical practice is primarily as an inpatient psychiatrist on the Addiction Recovery Service and the “Haven,” a general psychiatry unit that treats patients from an affluent socioeconomic background with a variety of psychiatric disorders. Dr. Avari was a leader in the planning and development of the NewYork Presbyterian - Westchester Behavioral Health Center Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit- an inpatient psychiatry unit designed to provide intensive assessment and comprehensive treatment to individuals during the most acute phase of a serious mental illnessDr. Avari’s clinical research focusses on the development of novel treatments of late-life psychiatric disorders. He has worked with the Weill Cornell Institute of Geriatric Psychiatry since 2010.Dr. Avari has written extensively and published in many journals, including the International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Academic Psychiatry. He has also written many book chapters and presented his work at many domestic and   international conferences.Dr. Avari is actively involved in many national psychiatric societies, including the American Psychiatric Association, the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry and the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training.