Liam Butchart, MD, MA

Clinical Instructor, Family, Population and Preventive Medicine

Liam.Butchart@stonybrookmedicine.edu

Expertise

• Medical Humanities
• Bioethics
• Narrative Medicine
• Philosophy of Science

Profile

Liam Butchart, MD, MA, is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center and Clinical Instructor at the Stony Brook University Renaissance School of Medicine. 

Dr. Butchart's scholarly work focuses on the intersection of mental health and the human aspects of illness, and how patient stories can inform treatment. He publishes regularly on literature, psychoanalysis, bioethics and narrative medicine.

Prior to his appointment at NYP/Columbia, Dr. Butchart completed his psychiatry residency at the Icahn School of Medicine-Mount Sinai Morningside/West, where was Chief Resident. He earned his medical degree from the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, and his undergraduate degree from the Colby College was in music. He also completed the Psychoanalytic Fellowship from Columbia University's Center for Psychoanalytic Teaching and Research.