Lloyd is a psychiatrist, public health doctor and non-fiction writer.  He is currently an Adjunct Professor at the Columbia University School of Public Health, and has previously served as Chief Medical Officer and EVP of McLean Hospital, a Harvard teaching hospital; Mental Health Commissioner of NYC (in the Bloomberg administration); and Chief Medical Officer of the NYS Office of Mental Health, the nation’s largest state MH Agency. Graduated with a BS from City College of New York and received his MD from the State University of New York, Upstate Medical Center.  He completed his Residency in Psychiatry at SUNY, Upstate Medical Center.

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Lloyd has delivered numerous “named” lectures. His awards include the Rockefeller Scholar in Residence, Doctor of the Year from the National Council on Behavioral Health, both Administrator and Teacher of the Year from the American Psychiatric Association, the Dutch Psychiatric Association’s Certificate of Honor, and The Courage To Change from the NYS Association of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services.

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His interest in writing has led him to publish 13 books, the first seven for medical professionals (two with multiple editions) and, more recently, six for a general audience. He has published ~500 articles for print and on-line publications, including the NYT, the WSJ, Scientific American, Lancet, Medscape, The Atlantic, The Tennessean, Commonweal and US News and World Report (where he wrote an Opinion column for 2 years). He was Medical Editor for Mental Health at the HuffPost, where >200 of his articles, audios and videos appeared. He currently is a Contributing Writer for Psychology Today, Psychiatric Times and The NY Journal of Books.

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For 18 sequential semesters he provided a Workshop on Medical Writing for the General Public at the Columbia Department of Psychiatry, where he also founded and directed Columbia Psychiatry Media, which produced, for national distribution, interviews, podcasts and articles by experts on mental health and the addictions, including a Resident/Fellow column for a popular psychiatry publication, and Resident/Fellow Podcast . He has convened conferences, in partnership with the Columbia School of Journalism, on mental health the addictions and social justice.