page_title: Richard Kogan (physician)
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: Richard Kogan (physician) / Life
caption_attribution_description: English: Richard Kogan, American psychiatrist and concert pianist
context_page_description: Richard Kogan is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical Center, in New York City; Co-Director of the Medical Center's Human Sexuality Program; and Artistic Director of the Weill Cornell Music and Medicine Program.
  In addition to his medical calling, Kogan is a concert pianist. This combination of accomplishments led him to develop a series of lecture-recitals that explore the role of music in healing, and the influence of psychological factors and medical conditions on the creative work of composers.
context_section_description: Richard Kogan is the son of a gastroenterologist from Elizabeth, New Jersey, and the second of five children.  He began piano performances in 1961 at age 6.  But the medical world was never far from the family life; his father took the boy on medical rounds.  His mother, for her part, enrolled him at the Juilliard School of Music Pre-college, where he studied piano with Nadia Reisenberg.
  At Harvard University, where he studied music (his major) and completed a pre-medical curriculum, Kogan formed a trio with his Juilliard friend Yo-Yo Ma and with violinist Lynn Chang. After earning a bachelor's degree at Harvard in 1977, he went  to Harvard Medical School under a special five-year plan that enabled him to travel and perform concerts.
  Kogan received his M.D. degree from Harvard Medical School in 1982.  He completed a psychiatry residency and an academic fellowship at New York University.
  In 2001 Kogan presented a symposium at the American Psychiatric Association on mental illness and musical creativity.  The experience launched him on a new career.  It convinced him that exploring the psyches of composers made him a better interpreter of their scores, and that understanding the role of creativity in people's lives made him a better psychiatrist.
  Kogan's role as artistic director of the Weill Cornell Music and Medicine Program has given him the opportunity to enable medical students and physicians to pursue, as he has done, both occupations, medicine and music, without having to leave either behind.
caption: Richard Kogan
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