A LITTLE BIT ABOUT ME
I graduated University of Maryland Medical School. I did an internship at Downstate Medical School and residency and chief residency at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. I continued as a faculty member and attending at Bronx Municipal Hospital Center (Jacobi Hospital) and at Montefiore/North Central Bronx in Crisis and Emergency Services teaching psychiatry residents, medical students, social workers, medical ER residents, attendings and nurses.
I moved to Rockland County in 1982 and worked at the Crisis Service (Robert L Yeager) until 1985.
In 1996 I started the psychiatry and medical clinic at Jawonio and worked there providing clinical services, supervision, teaching and research until 2004. I have been involved in continuing psychiatric, psychoanalytic, and medical education in order to stay current with the latest psychological and biological treatments. I am a distinguished lifetime member of the American Psychiatric Association and a past President of the West Hudson Psychiatric Society.
WHO COMES TO SEE ME?
I see adolescents (14 or older), adults, families and couples. Most people come on the recommendation of another physician or therapist or when they experience depression, anxiety or problems at work or in their relationships. As a psychiatrist with over 35 years of experience doing psychotherapy, evaluations, and psychopharmacology I am equipped to treat all the major psychiatric disorders such as depression, anxiety, and bipolar disorder as well as work or career problems, marital and relational problems, family crises, grief, and posttraumatic stress.
I have special training and interest in individual and family crisis therapy, psychoanalytic psychotherapy, postpartum depression, treatment of individuals with developmental disabilities, and integrative and complementary medicine.