Julie Holland

Julie Holland, MD, is a fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine and was an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at the NYU School of Medicine from 1995 to 2012. She is a graduate of University of Pennsylvania, Temple University School of Medicine and completed her psychiatric residency at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City.

She is the editor of two non-profit books which help to fund clinical research: Ecstasy: The Complete Guide,A Comprehensive Look at the Risks and Benefits of MDMA and The Pot Book: A Complete Guide to Cannabis. She is the author of Weekends at Bellevue: Nine Years on the Night Shift at the Psych ER (Bantam/Random House, 2010) and Moody Bitches: The Truth About The Drugs You're Taking, the Sleep You're Missing, the Sex You're Not Having, and What's Really Making You Crazy (Penguin Press, 2015.)

Her most recent book, Good Chemistry: The Science of Connection, From Soul to Psychedelics was published in June 2020.

Dr. Holland runs a private practice in Manhattan and is the medical monitor for several clinical research studies on treating Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, one using MDMA-assisted psychotherapy, and another examining the effects of various strains of cannabis.