About Me
My Background
After graduating with a degree in Biology from Northwestern University in the suburbs of Chicago, I moved back to the east coast (where I am originally from) and attended medical school at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in The Bronx. My general psychiatry training was at Beth Israel Medical Center on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, following which I completed the Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship Program at Cedars-Sinai Medcial Center in Los Angeles. My first job out of training was as the Unit Chief of the Dual-Diagnosis Inpatient Unit at Bellevue Hospital. While at Bellevue, I started a private practice in NYC, which in 2012 expanded to the current location in Wayne, NJ. Since 2012, I have also served as a staff psychiatrist at the University Behavioral Health Partial-Hospitalization Program (PHP) at what was then UMDNJ (now Rutgers-Newark), as staff psychiatrist at the Couseling, Health & Wellness Center at William Paterson University, and as staff psychiatrist at a substance-abuse/mental health Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) in Florham Park, NJ (Treatment Dynamics/Summit Behavioral Health).
In addition to clinical care, I have also been engaged in teaching as well as research thoughout my training and early career. While on faculty at the NYU School of Medicine, I won the Teacher of the Year Award teaching trainees in the NYU Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship Program. I also won the Cynthia Horner, M.D. Award for Outstanding Achievement in Research while in my residency when I was published in the Psychiatric Services journal.
At the Present...
...I work only out my solo-practioner, private practice in Wayne, NJ and maintain a faculty appointment at Rutgers-New Jersey Medical School teaching Addiction Medicine fellows. I am board certified by the ABPN in both General Adult as well as Addiction Psychiatry.
Philosophy of Treatment
Simply put...to meet someone where they are at and offer personalized treatment. I respect that there are a number of reasons and varying levels of motivation when it comes to engaging in mental health and/or substance abuse treatment. I feel it is important to match the treatment to these circumstances. I also feel it is important to do such in a non-judgmental manner as otherwise it wold breed avoidance of discussing the very matters that led to one seeking treatment.