Dr. Michael R. Liebowitz is a Columbia University psychiatrist and founder of the Anxiety Disorders Clinic, the first of its kind, at the New York State Psychiatric Institute.
He created the Liebowitz social anxiety scale, now a widely used primary outcome measure in clinical research on SAD.
In 1997 he established the Medical Research Network in New York City which performs studies on medicines.
[3] In 2007, Liebowitz retired as Director of the Anxiety Disorders Clinic at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, a position which he had held since 1982.
[3] Since 1977, he has been an instructor and professor of Medicine (Clinical Psychiatry) at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.