Awards

Bicentennial Medal - 2021

About Sylvia Karasu

Sylvia Karasu received a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and her M.D. from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She completed her adult psychiatric residency and fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at New York Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medicine and is board certified in both Adult and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Throughout her career, Karasu has collaborated with Indiana University’s School of Public Health, on a variety of relevant medical issues.

Karasu is a clinical professor of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medicine and has a private practice in Manhattan. She is the senior author of both The Gravity of Weight: A Clinical Guide to Weight Loss and Maintenance (2010) and The Art of Marriage Maintenance (2005.)

Karasu is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, a graduate of The New York Psychoanalytic Institute, an elected member of the Vidonian Club, a member of the prestigious Institutional Review Board of The Rockefeller University and an elected fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine. Karasu is on the board and a contributor to the online medical humanities journal Hektoen International. In 2021, she was awarded Indiana University’s Bicentennial Medal, in honor and recognition of her distinguished contributions in the field of medicine.