Petros Levounis, MD, MA, serves as professor and chair of the Department of Psychiatry at Rutgers NJ Medical School. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Stanford University, he studied chemistry and biophysics before receiving his medical education at Stanford and the Medical College of Pennsylvania. He trained in Psychiatry at Columbia University and further specialized in Addiction Psychiatry at NYU. Dr. Levounis served as director of the Addiction Institute of New York from 2002 to 2013 and, in 2017, was elected as an honorary member of the World Psychiatric Association. Dr. Levounis has published 13 books including the textbook of “Substance Dependence and Co-Occurring Psychiatric Disorders” and the “Pocket Guide to LGBTQ Mental Health: Understanding the Spectrum of Gender and Sexuality.” His books have been translated into French, German, Hungarian, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish. Dr. Levounis is married to actor Lukas Hassel and lives in New York.
