Outside of his PHS/HHS work, Dr. Auerbach has had appointments as a guest investigator at the Rockefeller University, on the board of directors of the Public Health Association of NYC (PHANYC) and Physicians for a National Health Program-NY Metro Chapter (PNHP), and on the residency advisory committee of the NYC Dept. of Health and Mental Hygiene’s Preventive Medicine Residency program. He is a co-author on approximately 30 peer-review publications. He and his wife Dr. Karen Becker -- a family physician and associate professor at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center Department of Family and Social Medicine -- live in Manhattan with their two children.

Dr. Palyo is a board-certified, child and adolescent psychiatrist working in private practice and as the Medical Director at Safe Horizon Counseling Center. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at New York Medical College; Clinical Instructor in the Department of Psychiatry at Langone NYU School of Medicine; Immediate Past President of the New York Council on Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (NYCCAP); a member of AACAP’s Bylaws Committee; and Executive Board Member to the American Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Dr. Palyo served as AACAP’s second congressional fellow from 2010-2011 working with Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) and was the first Early Career Psychiatrist (ECP) Representative to the Assembly of Regional Organizations. Dr. Palyo trained at Emory University and University of Texas and completed his psychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry residencies at St. Vincent’s Hospital/New York Medical College.