Adelphi Names New Dean Of Psychology School

GARDEN CITY, NY — Adelphi University has named J. Christopher Muran, the new dean of the Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology. He start the new role on August 7.

Muran joined the Derner School 14 years ago as associate dean and director of the PhD Program in Clinical Psychology. He also recently served as interim dean of Derner, leading the school through the COVID-19 pandemic.

"I feel very honored and privileged to be the seventh dean of our storied school," said Muran. "Derner is positioned more than ever to better realize our overall identity as an integrative, empirically informed school of psychology with a long psychoanalytic tradition and commitment to social justice."

Prior to joining Adelphi, Muran was chief psychologist in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Beth Israel Medical Center (now Mount Sinai) in New York City, a position he held for 15 years.

Muran has held academic appointments at the International Psychoanalytic University in Berlin, Germany, and Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City, and currently holds appointments at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis.

"[Muran] is an international leader in scholarship, dedicated to preparing Adelphi graduates for consequential roles in our changing world," Christopher Storm, Adelphi's provost and executive vice president.