From 1981 to 1996 Fogel served on the faculty of the
Brown University School of Medicine, first as the founding director of the program in medical psychiatry at
Rhode Island Hospital, and then as the Associate Director of the Brown Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research. He directed medical student education in psychiatry at Brown and mentored several medical students who became prominent psychiatrists, including
Sally Satel and
Scott Haltzman. While at Brown University he served as an advisor on mental health policy to U.S. Senator
John Chafee (R-RI). While at Brown he began a long collaboration with the late Dr. Alan Stoudemire of
Emory University School of Medicine, co-editing five volumes on medical psychiatry, culminating in the publication in 1993 of
Psychiatric Care of the Medical Patient by Oxford University Press. The book's third edition was published in 2015. In 1988 Fogel co-founded the
American Neuropsychiatric Association (ANPA) with Randolph B. Schiffer, M.D., and served as its first president. In 1996 Fogel was a founder of the International Neuropsychiatric Association. Fogel is currently Professor of Psychiatry, Part-time at
Harvard Medical School and a physician at the
Brigham and Women’s Hospital based at its Center for Brain-Mind Medicine. He is also on the staff of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. His academic role at Harvard includes the mentoring of postdoctoral fellows and junior faculty, several of whom have become leaders in behavioral neurology and neuropsychiatry. In 1995, together with three other health service researchers, he co-founded PointRight Inc., a healthcare data analytics company focused on decision support for post-acute care. He was its principal scientist until December 2020, when the company was acquired. He was the Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Synchroneuron, Inc., a CNS pharmaceutical startup (2011 and 2016), formed to develop novel treatments for movement disorders, combat-related
post-traumatic stress disorder, and tinnitus. Since 2018 he has been on the Scientific Advisory Board of 4D Path, a digital pathology startup. He also is an inventor and holds numerous U.S. and international patents involving pharmaceuticals, medical devices and computer software. ==Selected honors==