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Current article-text: Following the completion of his medical residencies and fellowship in the 1980s,"
Replace with: After graduating, Koplewicz held positions as an intern in pediatrics at the Bronx Municipal Hospital Center, a psychiatry resident at Cornell University, and worked a two-year fellowship at the National Institute of Mental Health.[1]

Current article-text: Koplewicz became the chief of child and adolescent psychiatry at the Long Island Jewish Medical Center,
Replace with: In 1996, Koplewicz was appointed as the chief of child and adolescent psychiatry at New York University Langone Medical Center.[2]

Remove (poorly sourced): the primary teaching hospital for the medical school of Yeshiva University (YU) from which he had graduated in the Bronx.[3]

Current article-text: In 1997 he helped found and served as the first director of the NYU Child Study Center (CSC), a position he held until he left NYU in October 2009.[4]
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Add content (after the sentence starting "In 1997 Koplewicz . . . NYU Child Study Center): According to Koplewicz, while there, he and the chair of the board raised $142 million for the organization.[2] During Koplewicz's tenure at N.Y.U., it created a controversial advertising campaign depicting mental health diseases like Asperger Syndrome and autism as holding children for ransom.[5] The campaign led to protests from disability groups and the advertisements were eventually removed.[5]

Remove redundant text: In the mid 1990s he joined NYU Langone Medical Center where he was vice chair of department of psychiatry (1996-);

Remove unsourced text: director of division of child and adolescent psychiatry (1996-); senior vice president & vice dean for external affairs (1997-); and professor of clinical psychiatry at the School of Medicine (1996-).

Remove (private information of marginal significance to readers): He received a severance package in excess of $1.2 million.[6]

Current article-text: While Koplewicz worked at NYU Langone, he also served as the director of the Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, a psychiatric facility run by the state of New York. In 2011 Koplewicz was dismissed from this role following a dispute with Jeffrey A. Sachs, the newly installed advisor on health care issues to the Governor.[7]
Move to just after: In 1996, Koplewicz was appointed as the chief of child and adolescent psychiatry at the New York University Langone Medical Center.

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  1. ^ LINDA TAGLIAFERROPublished: June 16, 1996 (1996-06-16). "Long Island Q & A: Dr. Harold S. Koplewicz;Helping to Combat Child and Adolescent Mental Disorders - New York Times". Nytimes.com. Retrieved 2013-01-04.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference Ellin 2011 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "Castle Connolly Medical Ltd". Castleconnolly.com. Retrieved 2013-01-04.
  4. ^ Kaminer, Ariel (2013-03-03). "N.Y.U. Gives Lavish Parting Gifts to Some Star Officials". The New York Times.
  5. ^ a b Solomon, A. (2014). Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity. Scribner classics. Scribner. p. 277. ISBN 978-1-4767-7306-3. Retrieved March 4, 2017.
  6. ^ Kaminer, Ariel (2013-03-03). "N.Y.U. Gives Lavish Parting Gifts to Some Star Officials". The New York Times.
  7. ^ Confessore, Nicholas (February 23, 2011). "Jeffrey Sachs, Cuomo Adviser, Takes Health Industry Pay". The New York Times. Retrieved February 2, 2018.