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BIOGRAPHY   Richard Kogan, MD Co-Director Human Sexuality Program Weill-Cornell Medical College New York, New York Richard Kogan has a distinguished career both as a psychiatrist and as a concert pianist. He has been praised for his "exquisite, eloquent, and compelling playing" by the New York Times, and the Boston Globe wrote that "Kogan has somehow managed to excel at the world’s two most demanding professions.” He won first prize in the Chopin Competition of the Kosciuszko Foundation and has performed throughout the world as a recitalist and orchestral soloist. He has been a frequent chamber music collaborator with cellist Yo-yo Ma. Dr. Kogan is a graduate of Juilliard, Harvard College, and Harvard Medical School. He is a psychiatrist in private practice in New York City and is affiliated with Weill-Cornell Medical Center as Director of its Human Sexuality Program. He has done groundbreaking work on the connection between music and the mind in a series of lecture/performances that explore how the psychiatric illnesses of the great composers influenced their creative output.