Founder & CEO of the Singula Institute, with expertise in psychiatry, clinical research, leadership, and passion for healthcare innovation.

After completing a Bachelor of Arts in the Biological Basis of Behavior from the University of Pennsylvania, Lener began a career as a high school science teacher at Georgetown Day School in Washington, DC, where he remained to earn his MD the George Washington University School of Medicine. He then completed his residency in psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, where he was accepted into the Physician-Scientist Research Track, and was chosen as Chief Resident of Research. Prior to his role at Singula, Lener completed a three-year clinical research fellowship at the Experimental Therapeutics and Pathophysiology branch of the National Institutes of Mental Health, where he examined neural correlates of depression heterogeneity to identify biological markers of depression risk and treatment response.