Donald C. Goff

Donald C. Goff, MD, is the fourth Director in the 60+ year history of NKI, having assumed this position on February 13, 2012. Dr. Goff is also Professor and Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Psychiatry at the New York University Grossman School of Medicine.

Donald Goff came to NKI from Boston where he had been Director of the Schizophrenia Program at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He is a native Californian who earned his undergraduate degree at the University of California, Berkeley, and his medical degree at UCLA. He completed his internship in internal medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, and his residency in Psychiatry at MGH. Following his medical residency, Dr. Goff completed a research fellowship in psychopharmacology at Tufts-New England Medical Center.