[4] Koplewicz partly credits his father, a Holocaust survivor, for inspiring his interest in medicine, saying "he was very clear that what you carry in your head means everything.
After graduating from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Dr. Koplewicz completed a pediatric internship at the Bronx Municipal Hospital Center.
He studied general psychiatry at Cornell University and completed a two-year research fellowship through the National Institute of Mental Health.
In 2011 Koplewicz was dismissed from this role following a dispute with Jeffrey A. Sachs, the newly installed advisor on health care issues to the Governor.
[10] In 2007, an advertising campaign for the Child Study Center raised objections over its use of simulated ransom notes, seemingly addressed to parents of autistic children.