About the author
Jacques J. Ohayon, Ph.D., was born in Queens and grew up in Middle Village, New York, only 30 minutes from Manhattan. He graduated from Newtown High School and spent summers at his family's county home in Upper Greenwood Lake, New Jersey. Dr. Ohayon received degrees from the State University of New York at Ulster County, A.A., and Stony Brook, B.A., graduating Phi Beta Kappa; he received his M.S. in Psychology and Ph.D. in Epidemiology from the University of Pittsburgh.
After graduate school, he worked in the fields of telecommunications and computer design, developing equipment in the field of bio-telemetry. He ran his own company in Pittsburgh for several years before moving to New Jersey and starting a new career in finance. During a reunion for the Graduate School of Public Health in 2014, his doctorate advisor, Louis Kuller, M.D., encouraged Dr. Ohayon to concentrate on Epidemiology. Dr. Katherine Detre, M.D., a recognized expert in Clinical Trials research at the time, served on his Doctorate committee, in 1983. After 20 years in finance, Dr. Ohayon turned his attention to solving the severe epidemic of Mass Killing, including pilot and bus driver suicide and train derailment. Given the severity of the epidemic, Dr. Ohayon placed his full attention into this research and made a unique medical discovery relating to the visual physiology of the perpetrators. During his independent research, he was granted a U.S. Patent entitled Pupil Distortion Measurement and Psychiatric Diagnosis Method. Dr. Ohayon also received a National Science Foundation I-Corp Grant, headquartered at Princeton University.
It should be noted that his work in this area was motivated by the faculty at Stony University. On February 7th, 2014, Dr. Ohayon met with three distinguished faculty members of Stony Brook: Professors Matt Lerner, Patricia Whitaker, and Daniel Klein. The director of alumni programs, Jane MacArthur, was also there. During this meeting, he was convinced to help solve the problem of Mass Shooting. Dr. Ohayon still receives Epidemiology assignments from the School of Public Health at Pitt, which inspired his Book "How to Prevent Mass Killing."
Dr. Ohayon enjoys working out, traveling, and visiting his family in Israel. He also enjoys participating in the vast cultural experiences available in New York. You can find Dr. Ohayon on Sunday evenings at the William Paterson University Jazz Room in his hometown of Wayne, New Jersey, listening to talented student and professional musicians performing together. Dr Ohayon is related to Eric Topol, Professor at the Scripps Institute and Editor of Medscape. Dr. Ohayon's grandmother, Rachel Topol, and Dr. Topol are were cousins, the Topol family lived in Argentina before coming to the United States. Although Dr. Ohayon and Dr. Topol live on opposite coasts, they worked with other scientists, mainly over Twitter, to solve the Pandemic.
Dr. Ohayon is the President Emeritus of the Phi Beta Kappa Association of New York and the Vice President of the Middle Atlantic District of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. He is also a member of the Ophthalmic Photographers Society.
Dr. Ohayon is affiliated with the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark, New Jersey, where he founded a technology company, Visual Intelligence, LLC. He also studies Global Warming and has found a surprising yet possible connection to Suicide, which he is studying. He is known for responding to critical Public Health emergencies during his career. Dr. Ohayon enjoys working with Capstone Students at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, where he has worked for 12 semesters, including six remotely during the Pandemic.
Dr. Ohayon lives in New Jersey and has a daughter, Jessica Rachel, and a son-in-law, Mario El Chami.