Jonathan A. Slater, M.D., received his B.A. from Harvard University and his M.D. from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He completed a post-doctoral research fellowship, an adult psychiatric residency, and a child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at the New York State Psychiatric Institute/New York-Presbyterian Hospital. Dr. Slater was certified in psychoanalysis by the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, and is a member of the American Psychiatric Association and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. He is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center.

Dr. Slater is triple board certified in Psychiatry, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and Psychosomatic Medicine. Dr. Slater was the Chief of Pediatric Psychiatry Consultation-Liaison (“CL”) at the Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of New York (CHONY) from 1992 until 2014, and from 2011-2014 also directed the Pediatric Psychiatry Emergency Service. He has been the Child Psychiatry Attending for the Pediatric Cardiac Transplant Team and served on the Pediatric Bioethics Committee. Currently, Dr. Slater is a Senior Attending for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Consultation Liaison Services at the NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital. His publications are on topics involving consultation-liaison, transplant psychiatry and child development and he also writes for the general public.

"Tell Me Where It Hurts," co-authored by Dr. Slater and Mark Fuerst, is a concise guide for parents to decode their child's complex symptoms, exploring the interface between emotional and physical conditions. Dr. Slater has also contributed articles to the Op-Ed sections of the New York Daily News and The New York Times, as well as on MedPage Today. His expertise has also led him to be featured on MSNBC, the Patreon Talking Feds podcast, and the NBC Sunday Today Show. He has consistently been named a "Top Doctor" by both New York Magazine and Westchester Magazine since 2009. Dr. Slater is preparing an article for Columbia Magazine about Dr. Clarice Kestenbaum, which will be published sometime in 2024. In addition to his published works, he curates a digital newsletter on Substack and is currently penning a memoir.

Tell Me Where It Hurts: How to Decipher Your Child’s Emotional Aches and Physical Pains (Adams Media, October, 2002), teaches parents how to read their child’s physical symptoms and evaluate them from an emotional and medical standpoint. Dr. Slater draws from his vast clinical experience, plus the latest scientific data, and arms parents with information and advice that is written in easy-to-understand, layman’s terms. Having Tell Me Where It Hurts is like having a renowned expert beside you equipped with the most advanced diagnostic tools and solutions. Day to day, Slater is in contact with concerned parents whose child is in some kind of distress. For some parents, their children may have an inexplicable stomachache, headache or rash. For other parents, it may be that they are worried that their child is doing poorly in school, is depressed – or even suicidal. When there is no explanation for the child’s pain and no one, not doctors, nor parents, nor the experts, can define what is the matter, parents are left feeling anxious, confused, guilty, and concerned.