Ralph Aquila

Dr. Aquila is the Medical Director, Fountain Hous, Sidney R. Baer Jr. Center. For over a quarter-century, Dr. Aquila has been running a service that treats people with serious mental illness, predominately, schizophrenia. He is the Medical Director of Fountain House. He has conducted numerous clinical trials. His team has been looking at other medical co-morbidities since the early nineties as a cause of premature death in persons with schizophrenia. Together with Fountain House is pushing forward the agenda about excess mortality in serious mental illness with the World Health Organization. He is an assistant professor of psychiatry at the Ichan school of medicine, Mt. Sinai.