Damir Huremov, MD, MPP, FAPA, FACLP, is a Consultation-Liaison Psychiatrist, Director of Psychiatry at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, a division of Zucker-Hillside Hospital Department of Psychiatry. He is also an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. Originally from Bosnia, Damir joined Northwell Health from Nassau University Medical Center, where he established a C-L Fellowship Program and served as the Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs. He holds a degree in public policy from Johns Hopkins University and has been an active member of the APA since 2002 and ACLP since 2007, including committee service. Damir is the editor Psychiatry of Pandemics: A Mental Health Response to Infection Outbreak, a book published just before the COVID-19 outbreak. In an ironic twist of fate, he and his team found themselves amid the COVID-19 outbreak in in Metro New York in early 2020. Damir has worked internationally, from the Balkans to Brazil, helping mental health professionals mitigate psychiatric impact of the outbreak. He hopes C-L Psychiatry will permanently maintain its focus on infectious diseases. He is professionally committed to expanding the integrative role of our specialty to serve as 'the CLIP' (Consultation-Liaison-Integrative Psychiatry) between the realms of mental health and the rest of Medicine and is hoping to define and claim new domains for our profession in the near future.