Dr. Velazquez was born and raised in New York City. He has lived in Maine, New Mexico, and most recently in Massachusetts. He recently moved to Stuart, Florida where he practices psychiatry at Treasure Coast Psychiatry. He attended Yale College in New Haven, Connecticut and then the University of Michigan Medical School at Ann Arbor, Michigan. He completed residency at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, NY and fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry at Columbia University / New York State Psychiatric Institute.