Why Psychiatry?

Medical Degree

SUNY At Downstate 1981- 85

Psychiatry

Residency Training

Johns Hopkins Hospital

Baltimore, Maryland 2001- 04

Internal Medicine

Residency Training

Cabrini Medical Center

New York City, New York

1986 - 89

Professional Interests:

Neurologic Basis of Psychiatric Disorders & Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

Type of Practice

Solo. Fee-for-Service.

Personal Philosophy

Raised in New York City, I thrive on ethnic and cultural diversity.  It is for similar  reasons that I enjoy travel.  Openness to individual and ethnic differences, varied religious and philosophical viewpoints, and even alternate technological directions challenge one’s homegrown perspective and deepen understanding of the positive potential of being human.

“After 13 years of Emergency Department work, I came to realize that many patients were presenting with medical issues which, to various degrees, resulted from concurrent psychiatric issues recognizable as maladaptive lifestyles, often non-compliant with medications or a sensible diets, frequently with chronic pain.  I came to believe that if I could positively influence a patient to rethink their ways of coping with stress, it might have a more profound and enduring impact on their health and well-being than simply prescribing a pill or setting a cast.”

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