Since 2001, he has been listed every year as a Top Addiction Psychiatrist in New York Magazine's “"Best Doctors" issue, and is listed as a U.S. News Top Doctor in U.S. News and World Report. He has produced films for PBS and HBO to educate the public about medicine and psychiatry, for which he is the recipient of a George Foster Peabody Award and has been recognized by both the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.