PRE-MEDICAL EDUCATION:
1973 - 1977 Ramapo College of New Jersey, Mahwah, New Jersey, BS with Honors in Biology, 1977.
MEDICAL SCHOOL:
1978 - 1982 UMDNJ-Rutgers Medical School, Piscataway, New Jersey, MD, 1982
INTERNSHIP:
1987-1988 PGY I, Department of Psychiatry, Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York.
RESIDENCY:
1988 - 1990 PGY II and PGY III, Department of Psychiatry, Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York.
CHILD PSYCHIATRY FELLOWSHIP:
1990 - 1992 PGY IV and PGY V, Division of Child Psychiatry, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson ?Medical School, Piscataway, New Jersey.
EMPLOYMENT:
1992 - Present Attending Psychiatrist, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Bergen Pines County Hospital, Paramus, New Jersey.
1993 - Present Medical Director, Fair Lawn Mental Health Center, Fair Lawn, New Jersey.
CERTIFICATION:
1988 New York State
1989 New Jersey State
1990 New Jersey CDS
1990 US DEA
SPECIALTY BOARD CERTIFICATION:
1993 Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in Psychiatry
PRESENTATIONS:
1989 Psychotherapy: Out of the Primordial Sea Arises and Sensible Amalgam, Original Paper sessions, Brooklyn Psychiatric society.
1990 Hope in the Face of Psychic Determinism: Employing the Psychotherapeutic Amalgam, Grand Rounds, Department of Psychiatry, Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York.
1991 Approaches to the Treatment of aggression Associated with Prominent Borderline, Antisocial, and Histrionic Elements, clinical Integration Conference, Department of Psychiatry, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.
PUBLICATIONS:
1989 "Psychotherapy Described as a Sensible Amalgam," The Psychiatric Times, June, 1989.
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:
American Medical Association
American Psychiatric Association
OTHER EXPERIENCE:
1990 Clinical Assistant Instructor in Psychiatry, SUNY-Health Sciences Center at Brooklyn; moonlighting at the drug and alcohol unit.
1990 - 1991 Medical staff, Lenox Hill Hospital; moonlighting coverage for the Department for the Department of Psychiatry.
1991 - 1992 Part-time staff psychiatrist, Catholic Charities, Edison, New Jersey.
1991 - 1992 On-call physician, Carrier Foundation, Belle Mead, New Jersey.