ABOUT

Psychiatry is the ideal synthesis of my interests in neuroscience, individual history & narrative, and the biological & psychological treatment of conditions affecting thought, perception, emotion, and behavior.

I completed my undergraduate and medical education at the accelerated BA/MD program at The George Washington University. I pursued an education that encompassed both scientific study and the humanities. During medical school, I spent a year as a researcher in a laboratory, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, that was devoted to the discovery of vaccines for tropical disease.

I completed residency training in Adult Psychiatry at the Payne Whitney Clinic at New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Medical Center. As a resident, I helped establish psychiatric treatment for victims of the Asian Tsunami in Sri Lanka in 2005 and worked as a chief resident of the inpatient psychiatric unit during my final year. Following residency training, I pursued advanced fellowship training in Forensic Psychiatry at NYU Medical Center.

In 2014, I received the Nancy C.A. Roeske Teaching Award, a national award given each year to a small number of psychiatrists who have made outstanding and sustaining contributions to medical student education.

Over the course of my career, I have presented at national conferences and psychiatric training programs on numerous topics in Psychiatry and Mental Health.  I have been a faculty member at New York University School of Medicine and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and am currently devoting my time fully to private practice and patient care.