Cheryl Mary Corcoran, M.D.

2026 Alexander Gralnick Award Recipient

Lecture Title: Computational Phenotyping of Schizophrenia Risk Informed by Lived Experience

Cheryl Mary Corcoran, M.D. is Professor and Program Leader in Psychosis Risk in the Department of Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Research Psychiatrist at the Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center (MIRECC) at the James J. Peters VA Medical Center in the Bronx. Dr. Cheryl Corcoran is committed to early intervention in schizophrenia, specifically for young people at clinical high risk by virtue of attenuated psychotic symptoms. She has studied modifiable risk factors like stress and cannabis, helped identify risk biomarkers and conduct clinical trials, and considered stigma and barriers to care. Her focus is the phenomenology and lived experience of young people at clinical risk, elicited through open-ended interview. The resulting transcripts, audio and video provide a rich source of language and behavioral data that can be quantified and interpreted using qualitative research methods, natural language processing and computer vision, in collaboration with physicists, engineers and young people themselves.