About

Dr. Charles Perkel has over 25 years of experience as a general and addiction psychiatrist. He maintains a private outpatient practice in Manhattan and is Clinical Director of Chemical Dependency at Coney Island Hospital in Brooklyn.

After training in general medicine in South Africa (where he is from), Dr. Perkel completed his psychiatric training and Addiction Fellowship at Beth Israel Medical Center in Manhattan (now Mount Sinai Beth Israel). Back in South Africa he ran a private practice and a rehabilitation clinic and became a national expert on drugs and addiction. 

He returned to Beth Israel as an assistant professor and for a decade served as Director of the Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship as well as chief of the Dual Addiction Psychiatry Inpatient Unit. He moved to New York Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital and served as inpatient director in the department of psychiatry. He then joined Urban Recovery for the treatment of addictive disorders in Brooklyn as chief psychiatrist until December 2019. He took on the position of Clinical Director Chemical Dependency at Coney Island Hospital in March 2020.

Dr. Perkel is curious about the relationships between mind, brain and body. He has an interest in concepts of self-medication and the connection between addictive and psychiatric disorders as well as the evolving understanding of the addicted brain. He keeps abreast of the current scientific literature, which helps inform his approach to his patients. 

He is a member of the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry and the American Psychiatric Association. He has published and co-published scientific articles on various aspects of addiction. He particularly values his role as mentor and teacher and in 2015 won The Max Needleman Award for Excellence in Teaching for his mentorship of psychiatrists in training at Beth Israel.