Post-Residency Career Plans – 2004-2016
2016
Michael Avissar, M.D., Ph.D.: T32 Schizophrenia Research Fellow – Columbia University Medical Center Department of Psychiatry / Private Practice
Mark D’Agostino, M.D., M.S.: Full time faculty, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital / Weill Cornell Medicine / Westchester Division
Andrew Edelstein, M.D.: Fellow in Psychosomatic Medicine and Psycho-Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Marta Galecki, M.D., M.Phil.: Fellow in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell and Columbia
Heather Goodman, M.D.: Fellow in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell and Columbia
Daniel Knoepflmacher, M.D.: Full time faculty, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital / Weill Cornell Medicine Outpatient Department / Faculty practice / PGY3 Class Coordinator Residency Education
David Nissan, M.D.: U.S. Navy Staff Psychiatrist, Naval Medical Center Portsmouth
Lauren Stossel, M.D.: Fellow in Forensic Psychiatry, New York University
Leah Susser, M.D.: Full time faculty, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital / Weill Cornell Medicine / Westchester Division and Specialty Center in Manhattan / Women’s Clinic Teaching Faculty
Aviva Teitelbaum, M.D.: Fellow in Addiction Psychiatry, New York University
2015
Cara Angelotta, M.D.: Fellowship, Forensic Psychiatry - New York Presbyterian Hosptial - Weill Cornell / Columbia University Medical Center
Liliya Gershengoren, M.D.: Fellowship, Psychosomatic Medicine -New York Presbyterian Hosptial - Columbia University Medical Center
Katherine Goettsche, M.D.: Fellowship, Geriatric Psychiarty - New York Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell, Westchester
Christen Kidd, M.D.: Private Practice
Seth Kleinerman, M.D.: ED Staff Psychiatrist - New York University, Langone Medical Center / Private Practice
Norman Lee, M.D.: Psychiatry Attending - New York Presbyterian Hospital - Columbia University Medical Center; Continued Training at New York Psychoanalytic Institute
Akshay Lohitsa, M.D.: ED Staff Psychiatrist - New York Presbyterian Hospital - Weill Cornell; Private Practice Physicians Organization
Cheryl McGibbon, M.D.: Fellowship, Women's Mental Health - New York-Presbyterian Hospital - Columbia University Medical Center
Caitlin Snow, M.D.: Fellowship, Geriatric Psychiatry - New York Presbyterian Hospital - Weill Cornell, Westchester; Executive MBA, Columbia University Business School
Samuel Weisblatt, M.D.: Fellowship, Psychosomatic Medicine - New York University, Langone Medical Center
2014
Andrene Campbell, M.D: Resident, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, NewYork- Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical College/Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Adam R. Demner, M.D: Resident, Addiction Psychiatry, New York University, Langone Medical Center
Emily Elliott, M.D: Staff Psychiatry, Parachute Program/Mobile Crisis Team, Visiting Nurse Service of New York
Elizabeth S. Niemiec, M.D: Psychiatry Attending, Adult Partial Hospitalization Program, Adult Outpatient Services, Newport Hospital, Newport, Rhode Island; Counseling Services, Salve Regina University.
Annaheta Salajegheh, M.D: Resident, Psychosomatic Psychiatry, New York University, Langone Medical Center
Jacqueline K. Sergie, M.D: Psychiatry Attending, Inpatient Services, Tisch Hospital, New York University, Langone Medical Center; Faculty, New York University School of Medicine
Lucas C. Van Dyke, M.D: Psychiatry Attending, Kaiser Permanente Medical Group, Oakland, California.
2013
Nancy Abdelmalak, M.D. Staff Psychiatrist, Oaklawn Community Mental Health Clinic, South Bend, Indiana
Jonathan Avery, M.D: Resident, Addiction Psychiatry, New York University Langone Medical Center
D. Harshad Bhatt, M.D. Ph.D., Private Practice/ Filmmaker, Man in a Hat Films
Shannon Casperson, M.D: Resident, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, New York
Presbyterian Hospital-Cornell/Columbia University
Anna Dickerman, M.D: Resident, Psychosomatic Psychiatry, New York-Presbyterian Hospital,Columbia University
Alexander Harris, M.D. Ph.D: Research Fellow ,York State Psychiatric Institute-Columbia University
Raymond Raad, M.D. M.P.H: Research Fellow, Forensic Psychiatry ,New York State Psychiatric Institute/Columbia University, Psychoanalytic Training
Sukumar Rao, M.D: Resident, Psychosomatic Psychiatry at the New York University- Langone Medical Center
Anna Rosen, M.D: Resident, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, New York Presbyterian Hospital-Cornell/Columbia University
Karthik Sivashanker, M.D: Resident, Psychosomatic Psychiatry, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Brendon Watson, M.D., Ph.D: Research Fellow, New York Langone Medical Center/Faculty, Cornell University Department of Psychiatry
2012
Jennifer Bernstein, M.D: Attending psychiatrist, Washington Heights Community Service, New York State Psychiatric/Columbia University/ Faculty, Columbia University Department of Psychiatry/Columbia University, Psychoanalytic Training
Elena Kamenkovich, M.D: Resident, Psychosomatic Psychiatry, Columbia University Department of Psychiatry
Martin Lan, M.D. Ph.D: Research Fellow, Affective Disorders, New York Psychiatric Institute/Columbia University Department of Psychiatry
Vivian Lee, M.D. Ph. D: Brooklyn Community Service/ Faculty, Weill Cornell Medical College, Private practice/ Psychoanalytic Institute of New York, Psychoanalytic Training
Conor Liston, M.D. PH.D: Research Fellow, Desiroth Laboratory, Stanford University
Sarah Schur McCarty, M.D: Project for Psychiatric Outreach for the Homeless/ Faculty, Weill Cornell Medical College/ Private practice
Alexandra Sacks, M.D: Fellow, Columbia University Women’s Mental Health program
Maya Stowe, M.D: Private group practice at the Therapy Center of New York/Faculty, Weill Cornell Medical College
Elhav Weinstein, M.D: Attending psychiatrist, Outpatient department, Payne Whitney Clinic-Manhattan/ Faculty, Weill Cornell Medical College/Columbia University, Psychoanalytic Training
Benjamin Zebley, M.D: Fellow, Emergency Psychiatry at New York Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia University/Private Practice
Matthew Zimmerman, M.D: Attending psychiatrist on the 9 Garden North Inpatient service of New York Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia Campus/Faculty, Columbia University,Psychoanalytic Training
2011
Alexandra Ackerman, M.D: Private Practice
Benjamin Brody, M.D: Full-time faculty, Weill-Cornell Department of
Psychiatry/Continued research with Dr. James Kocsis/Private Practice
Connie Cha, M.D: Fellow in Public Psychiatry at the Columbia University-New York
State Psychiatric Institute Program/ Faculty, Weill-Cornell Department of
Psychiatry/Attending, Second Chance Unit, Payne Whitney Westchester
Jana Colton, M.D: Private practice/Considering a variety of other options
Christin Drake, M.D: Psychiatric Project Outreach for the Homeless/Faculty, Cornell Department of Psychiatry/Private Practice
Jennifer Kraker, M.D: Private practice/Attending psychiatrist, Realization Center
John Nguyen, M.D: Resident in Addiction Psychiatry, University of California, San
Francisco/San Francisco Veterans Affairs Hospital
Vishal Patel, M.D: Attending psychiatrist at the Psychiatric Project Outreach for the
Homeless/Voluntary faculty at Weill-Cornell/Private Practice.
Xenia Protopopescu, M.D., Ph.D: Resident, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Cornell/Columbia University
Jennifer Velander, M.D: Resident in Addiction Psychiatry, Beth Israel Hospital, New York City
Genevieve Yuen, M.D., Ph.D: Resident in Geriatric Psychiatry, New York Presbyterian Hospital-Cornell University
2010
Vanessa Bobb, M.D. Ph.D: Resident, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Columbia-Cornell Program
Joseph Cousin, M.D: Full-time private practice; Faculty/ Weill Cornell Medical College
Janna Gordon-Elliott, M.D: Resident, Psychosomatic Psychiatry, New York Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia Campus/New York State Psychiatric Institute
Cary Gunther, M.D. Ph.D: Memory Disorders Group/ Weill Cornell Department of Neurology
Jennifer Halper, M.D.=: Full-time Attending/Bellevue Hospital/Emergency Psychiatry CPEP; Faculty/NYU Langone Medical Center School of Medicine
Sargam Jain, M.D: Fellow/Public Psychiatry/New York State Psychiatric
Institute/Columbia University Program/Project for Psychiatric Outreach for the Homeless
Aruna Khilanani, M.D: Resident/Forensic Psychiatry/Bellevue Hospital/NYU/Langone Medical Center School of Medicine
Andrew Kopelman, M.D: Research Fellow/ Forensic Psychiatry/Columbia University
Department of Psychiatry,/New York State Psychiatric Institute
Annie Lau, M.D: Resident, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Columbia-Cornell Program
Sarah Meyer, M.D: Full-time Attending/ 9 Garden North Inpatient Service/New-YorkPresbyterian Hospital/Columbia Campus; Faculty/ Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Wendy Moyal, M.D: Resident, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Columbia-Cornell Program
Malika Seth, M.D: Full-time private practice; Faculty/ Weill Cornell Medical College/Department of Psychiatry
2009
Kwame Akowuah, M.D: Resident, Forensic Psychiatry, New York University/Bellevue Hospital Program
David Brda, M.D: Psychiatry Attending, Schizophrenia Research unit, New York State Psychiatric Institute; Faculty, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Lina Fine, M.D: Fellow, Sleep Medicine, Department of Neurology, New York Presbyterian Hospital-Cornell Campus
Sireesha Jathavedam, M.D: Resident, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Columbia-Cornell Program
Laurie Kane, M.D: Part time Primary Care Medical Physician and Project Outreach for the Homeless, Part-time Private Practice, Women’s Reproductive Psychiatry
Julie Penzner, M.D: Psychiatric Attending, 9-Garden North Inpatient Service New York State Psychiatric Institute; Faculty, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Marisa Perez-Reisler, M.D: Resident, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Columbia-Cornell Program
Lorin Scher, M.D: Resident, Psychosomatic Medicine, University of California, Davis
Michael Walton, M.D: Psychiatric Attending, 11S Inpatient Service, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Cornell University/Payne Whitney Clinic; Faculty, Weill Cornell Medical College
2008
Dina Abell, M.D: Attending psychiatrist, Payne Whitney Clinic, Manhattan; Faculty, Weill Medical College of Cornell University; Candidate, Columbia University
Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research
Pradeep Atluri, M.D., Ph.D: Resident, Addiction Psychiatry, New York State Psychiatric Institute/Columbia University
Marina Benaur, M.D: Attending psychiatrist, Inpatient service, New York Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia campus; Faculty, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Ziv Cohen, M.D: Attending psychiatrist, Payne Whitney Clinic, Manhattan; Faculty, Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Marc Dubin, M.D., Ph. D: Research Fellow, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Columbia University/New York State Psychiatric Institute (laboratory of Dr. Bradley Peterson)
Zachary Freyberg, M.D. Ph. D: Research fellow in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University/New York State Psychiatric Institute (laboratory of Dr. Jonathan Javitch) Attending in psychiatry at New York Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia campus and Creedmoor Psychiatric Hospital.
Ronit Kedem, M.D: Resident in Psychosomatic Psychiatry, Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard University
Sonali Sharma, M.D: Part-time private practice; Part-time in CPEP, New York Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia campus; Faculty, Weill Medical College of Cornell University and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Laura Sirulnik M.D: Full-time attending, Inpatient service, North Central Bronx Hospital; Instructor of Psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
Jessica Zonana, M.D: Attending psychiatrist, Payne Whitney Clinic, Manhattan; Faculty, Weill Medical College of Cornell University
2007
Amir Afkhami, M.D., Ph.D: Instructor of Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Assistant Professor in the School of Public Health and Health Services/Global Health Division/ George Washington University
Ariela Berman, M.D: Attending psychiatrist, Inpatient service, New York Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia campus; Faculty, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons; Candidate, Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research.
Corey Carr, M.D: Attending psychiatrist, Inpatient service, New York Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia campus; Faculty, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Jessica Daniels, M.D: Resident, Psychosomatic psychiatry, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center-New York Presbyterian Hospital-Cornell program
Alexander Feller, M.D: Attending psychiatrist, Emergency Service, New York Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia campus; Faculty, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Paige Friedlander, M.D: Attending psychiatrist, Women’s Focus Unit, San Francisco General Hospital; Instructor in Psychiatry at University of California, San Francisco.
Anuj Gupta, M.D: Resident, Forensic Psychiatry, New York University
Steven Levine, M.D: Resident, Psychosomatic psychiatry, Memorial Sloan Kettering
Cancer Center-New York Presbyterian Hospital-Cornell program
Feyza Marouf, M.D: Resident, Geriatric Psychiatry, New York Presbyterian Hospital-Cornell program
Prapti Mehta, M.D: Director, Walk-in Clinic and Psychiatric Evaluation Service, Bellevue Hospital; Instructor in Psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine
Mallay Occhiogrosso, M.D: Attending psychiatrist, Payne Whitney Clinic, Manhattan; Faculty, Weill Medical College of Cornell University
James Wolak, M.D: Medical Director, Psychiatric Emergency Department, Maine Medical Center, Portland, Maine; Instructor in Psychiatry at the University of Vermont College of Medicine
2006
Natasha H. Chriss, M.D: Full-time private practice; Candidate, Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research; Faculty, Cornell University Department of Psychiatry
Christina C.Dziedzic, M.D: Faculty and full-time inpatient attending, Department of Psychiatry, Weill-Cornell Medical Center
Diana Feldman, M.D: Resident, Geriatric Psychiatry, New York Presbyterian Hospital-Cornell program
Kendall L. Genre, M.D: Attending psychiatrist, Ochsner Clinic, New Orleans, Louisiana; Faculty, Department of Psychiatry, Louisiana State University.
Bruce Leuchter, M.D: Faculty and Director, Neuropsychiatry clinical service, Department of Psychiatry, Weill-Cornell Medical Center
Mark J.Petrini, M.D, Ph.D.: Attending psychiatrist, Emergency Room of New-YorkPresbyterian Hospital-Columbia campus; Faculty, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Neala Rafizadeh, M.D: Attending psychiatrist, Inpatient service, New York Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia campus; Faculty, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Karen B. Rosenbaum, M.D: Resident, Forensic psychiatry, University of California, Los Angeles
Charles P. Stowell, M.D: Resident, Psychosomatic psychiatry, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center-New York Presbyterian Hospital-Cornell program
Christina A. Treece, M.D: Resident, Psychosomatic psychiatry, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center-New York Presbyterian Hospital-Cornell program
April J. Zhu, M.D: Attending psychiatrist, Kaiser Permanente, Santa Clara, California; Attending, Teen and Women’s Mood and Hormone Clinic and faculty, University of California, San Francisco
2005
Maha Ahmad, M.D: Resident, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, New York Presbyterian Hospital-Cornell campus
Justine Donovan, M.D: Fellow in Community Psychiatry, Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute.
David Galarneau, M.D: Faculty and full-time inpatient attending, Department of Psychiatry, Weill-Cornell Medical Center
Andrew Gerber, M.D. Ph.D: Research Fellow, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Columbia University/New York State Psychiatric Institute; Faculty of the University College in London Psychoanalytic Research Training Program; Candidate, Columbia University Center for Training and Research
Ritu Ghai, M.D: Resident, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital-Cornell campus
Judith Gold, M.D: Sackler Fellow in Mother-Infant psychiatry, Weill-Cornell Medical Center; Faculty and full-time attending, Cornell University Department of Psychiatry
Nikki Gordon-Skovby, M.D: Part-time private practice
Erika Marshall, M.D: Part-time private practice
Joseph Matta, M.D: Unit Chief, Adult Inpatient Psychiatry, St. Vincent’s Catholic
Medical Center; Faculty, New York Medical College.
Lori Spechler-Sidman, M.D: Faculty, Disaster Psychiatry Outreach , Mt. Sinai Hospital and Medical College; Candidate, Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research
2004
Samantha Boardman, M.D: Voluntary faculty, New York Presbyterian Hospital-Cornell
Anna Chapman, M.D: Study group in neuropsychoanalysis, Capetown, South Africa, (Dr. Mark Solms). Voluntary faculty, New York Presbyterian Hospital-Cornell; Candidate, Psychoanalytic training, Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research
Adam Estevez, M.D: Resident in Psychiatry and the Law, Cornell-Columbia
Peter Freed, M.D: Research fellow in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia
University/New York State Psychiatric Institute in the laboratory of Dr. John Mann studying the neurobiology of grief.
Tammy Gotlieb, M.D: Faculty, New York Presbyterian Hospital-Cornell, Outpatient C/L attending, Medical student mental health program, private practice.
Todd Loftus, M.D: Attending, Center for Special Services, HIV Related Disorders, NewYork Presbyterian Hospital-Cornell
Alison Lomonaco, M.D: Full-time Attending Payne Whitney Clinic Inpatient Services/Psychoanalytic Training, New York Psychoanalytic Institute
Oren Messeri, M.D: Fellow in Emergency Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center
Nicole Regent, M.D: Faculty, New York Presbyterian Hospital-Cornell, PWC Women’s Clinic; Medical Student Mental Health Program.
Julia Samton, M.D: Faculty, Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital-Cornell, Multiple Sclerosis clinic, Parkinson’s Disease research, Private practice
Christine Truman, M.D: Faculty of Brown University School of Medicine, Attending at Rhode Island Hospital in an inpatient unit and in an outpatient mood disorders program
