Dr. Young is Thomas and Frances Gambino professor and chair of the department of psychiatry at the Zucker School of Medicine and chair and senior vice president for behavioral health at Northwell. He is also chair of the department of psychiatry at Zucker Hillside Hospital and the combined Department of Psychiatry at Long Island Jewish Medical Center and North Shore University Hospital. Previously, he served as vice chair for education in the Department of Psychiatry at the Zucker School of Medicine and the Zucker Hillside Hospital. He also directed the Psychiatry Residency Training Program at Zucker Hillside and chaired the Curriculum Committee, which oversees the four-year curriculum at the School of Medicine.

Prior to joining Northwell, Dr. Young served as associate professor of psychiatry at the UCSF School of Medicine. He held several roles including Associate Director of the Residency Training Program in the Department of Psychiatry (2005-2012), Director of the Medication Management Clinics at the Langley Porter Psychiatric Hospital and Clinics (2005-2012), and Chair for the Advanced Studies Committee at the School of Medicine (with oversight over the Med4 curriculum, 2008-2012). While based at the Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center (2012-2013), he was the Associate Director for the Kaiser-UCSF Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship and a physician investigator with the Behavioral Health Research Initiative at Kaiser's Northern California Division of Research. During this time, he also helped create a primary care consult service supporting over 120 primary care physicians.

Dr. Young's research has focused on improving quality and patient safety in the clinical learning workplace. In particular, he has made important contributions to multiple literatures, including cognitive load, handoffs and patient safety; the 'July Effect'; professional identity formation; and workplace-based assessment in psychiatry. He has published extensively in the leading medical education journals. He served as associate editor for AHRQ's WebM&M (2009-2013) and now serves as associate editor for Perspectives on Medical Education and as an invited member of the International Competency-Based Medical Education Collaborative. Throughout his career, he has participated in local patient safety committees and led efforts to incorporate quality improvement processes into ambulatory settings.

Dr. Young has held leadership roles in numerous medical education organizations. He has served as President, Immediate Past President, Past Past President, Program Chair and Secretary of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatry Residency Training (AADPRT). He has chaired AADPRT's Handoffs Task Force, EPA Task Force, and Assessment Committee and has served on the Steering Committee and/or the Executive Council for over a decade. He was a member of the National Board of Medical Examiner's (USMLE) inaugural Patient Safety Test Materials Development Committee and now serves on the Evidence Based Medicine Interdisciplinary Review Committee. From 2017 to 2023, he served on the ACGME Psychiatry Review Committee.

Prior to his career in medicine, he did human rights work in southern Africa and Asia, community development work in the South, and served as legislative director for an assemblywoman in the California State Legislature where he helped lead several important and high-profile health policy initiatives.

He received a B.A. (magna cum laude) from Harvard University with a double concentration in Social Studies and the Comparative Study of Religion. He earned a master's degree in Public Policy from the UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy and a PhD in Health Professional Education from Utrecht University in The Netherlands. He obtained his MD from the University of California at San Francisco School of Medicine where he also completed residency training in general adult psychiatry.