Dr. RAMI KAMINSKI, MD is a renowned psychiatrist with more than forty years of experience working with thousands of people from all walks of life, including top professionals and world leaders, as well as people with severe and persistent mental illnesses. With a deeply humanistic approach, a rare healing gift, and a unique perspective on the human condition, Dr. Kaminski is a true pioneer in the psychiatric field.
Following years of serving in every facet of psychiatry—from academic and research work, through clinical, government, and public service—Dr. Kaminski founded and is the director of the Institute for Integrative Psychiatry in New York City. TIIPS is a groundbreaking institute dedicated to optimizing available treatments in medicine and psychiatry.
At the Institute of Integrative Psychiatry, Dr. Kaminski has increasingly dedicated a substantial part of his clinical work to devising and implementing innovative methods to healing those with serious addictions. In 2018, Dr Kaminski developed the F.A.M.E protocol (Forecast, Assess, Manage, Empower) in response to the need for early detection of and intervention in the unique mental health problems of those who are catapulted into fame. He has successfully worked behind the scenes with many celebrities who are in the constant public eye, helping them to overcome their predicament.
In 2023, Dr. Kaminski founded The Otherness Institute to research and raise awareness about how otroverts see the world. . Working with biostatisticians and researchers, Dr. Kaminski has developed a proprietary method called the Otherness Scale, which allows for a scientifically controlled and measurable way to identify traits of otherness and otroversion.
While working at the Mount Sinai Medical center in New York. Dr. Kaminski made several discoveries in the role of histamine in degenerative brain disorders such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases, multiple sclerosis, and schizophrenia. Dr. Kaminski was awarded eleven international patents in recognition of his scientific work. He has given numerous lectures and talks in public and academic forums both in the United States and around the world. His topics of expertise range from schizophrenia, depression, and degenerative brain disorders to addiction disorders, obsessive compulsive disorders, autism and spectrum conditions, neurocognitive disorders and the understanding of integrative approaches to psychiatric issues.
Throughout his career Dr. Kaminski has been a leader in advocacy groups for people with mental illness. In the early 1990’s he was offered the position of medical director for operations and commissioner liaison to families at the New York State Office of Mental Health. In this capacity, Dr. Kaminski served as a special adviser to the New York State Government. He advised the commissioner and legislature on wide-ranging topics involving mental health issues. He also created and promoted award-winning community programs including the famed Second Chance Program. This program, the recipient of many awards, is now in effect not only in New York State and other US states but also internationally in South America and Asia. Dr. Kaminski was awarded the Outstanding Treatment Initiative Award in recognition of the Second Chance Program’s success. During the 9/11 attack on New York City, Dr. Kaminski, through his New York State government position, was one of the major organizers of the mental health response to the disaster.
A recipient of many awards, Dr. Kaminski was awarded the Exemplary Psychiatrist Award from the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, the Physician of the Year award from the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, and the Charles E. Colt Excellence in Service award. In recognition of his excellence in teaching as the director of medical students’ education in psychiatry at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Dr. Kaminski was inducted into the Medical Honor Society Alpha Omega Alpha.
