Dr. Omar M. Mahmood is an Assistant Professor of Psychology in Clinical Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College and is currently the Acting Clinical Director of Psychology at Sidra Medicine in Doha, Qatar. He completed a bachelor’s degree at UCLA where he double-majored in Arabic and Psychobiology. He then took a year off to study in a traditional seminary in Hadramawt, Yemen. He later completed a master’s and Ph.D. degree program in Clinical Psychology with a minor in Cognitive Neuroscience at Wayne State University. His post-doctoral training was at the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine where he worked on the Adolescent Brain Imaging Project. He is interested in the development of culturally and linguistically appropriate assessment tools for use in Arab and Muslim populations. He is a neuropsychologist with broad experiences as a clinician, a teacher, and a research scientist.