Dr. Young is professor and chair of the department of psychiatry at the Zucker School of Medicine and chair and senior vice president for behavioral health at Northwell. He is also chair of the department of psychiatry at the Zucker Hillside Hospital. Previously, he served as vice chair for education in the Department of Psychiatry at the Zucker School of Medicine and the Zucker Hillside Hospital. He also directed the Psychiatry Residency Training Program at ZHH and chaired the Curriculum Committee, which oversees the four-year curriculum at the ZSOM.

Prior to joining Northwell, Dr. Young served as associate professor of psychiatry at UCSF School of Medicine. He held several roles including Associate Director of Residency Training (2005-2012), Director of the Medication Management Clinics (2005-2012), and Chair for the Advanced Studies Committee at the School of Medicine. While at Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center (2012-2013), he was Associate Director for their Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship and an investigator with Kaiser’s Behavioral Health Research Initiative.

Dr. Young’s research has focused on improving quality and patient safety in the clinical learning workplace. He has made important contributions including regarding: cognitive load, handoffs and patient safety; the ‘July Effect’; professional identity formation; and workplace-based assessment in psychiatry.

Dr. Young has held leadership roles in numerous medical education organizations. He is the current President and former Program Chair of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatry Residency Training (AADPRT). He was a member of the National Board of Medical Examiner’s (USMLE’s) inaugural Patient Safety Test Materials Development Committee and now serves on the Evidence-Based Medicine Interdisciplinary Review Committee.

He received a B.A. (magna cum laude) from Harvard University with a double concentration in Social Studies and the Comparative Study of Religion. He earned a master's degree in Public Policy from the UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy and a PhD in Health Professional Education from Utrecht University in The Netherlands. He obtained his MD from the University of California at San Francisco School of Medicine where he also completed residency training in general adult psychiatry.