About

Experience and training

I received my medical degree from the University of California, San Francisco (M.D. 1983), then spent a year of medical internship in the Department of Medicine at Mt Zion Medical Center, San Francisco.  I served as a resident in psychiatry at the Payne Whitney Clinic, New York Hospital (1984-1987), followed by fellowship in Behavioral Medicine and Consultation Psychiatry at Mount Sinai School of Medicine (1987-89).

I served as Director of the Psychiatric Consultation Service at Mount Sinai Medical Center from 1990-2000. During this time, I taught residents and medical students; served as the psychiatrist to Mount Sinai’s organ transplantation programs; and collaborated with medical and psychiatric colleagues on clinical research in a variety of areas including panic disorder, emotional adjustment to medical illness, psychiatric aspects of organ transplantation, and psychogenic seizures. I also studied and trained in psychoanalysis at the New York University Psychoanalytic Institute; and maintained a busy private practice of psychiatry and psychotherapy.

In 2000, I opened my office on Central Park West, and since then have devoted myself full-time to clinical practice. This has given me the opportunity to see many more patients, and to build relationships with a wider network of medical and mental health colleagues. Building on my earlier training in both classical psychoanalysis and more interactive therapies, I have worked to develop integrated approaches to treating people with emotional concerns. I have also continued on the faculty as Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Mount Sinai School of Medicine.