Division Chief
Program Director
Associate/Assistant Director
Dr. Mirnova Ceïde is an Associate Professor of Geriatric Psychiatry and Geriatrics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center and the Assistant Program Director of the Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship. She completed her Adult Psychiatry Training at John Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, MD where she was Chief Resident. She went on to complete a HRSA Fellowship at SUNY Downstate in Geriatric Psychiatry where she also participated in health disparities research at the Brooklyn Health Disparities Center. Dr. Ceïde is an NHLIBI PRIDE Scholar in Behavioral Medicine and Sleep Disorders. She joined the Geriatric Psychiatry Division at Montefiore Medical Center in 2013 where she is the psychiatry consultant for the Montefiore Home Care Geriatric Psychiatry Program, and the Associate Director of Center for the Aging Brain. She is a co-investigator on several pilot programs to serve depressed and homebound older adults including the Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Montefiore Home Care Psychotherapy Program for Depressed, Cognitively Impaired Patients (MHCPP-DCI) and the NYS Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Grant Decreasing Depression and Increasing Social Connectedness Among NYC's Older Adults. She was awarded an Albert Einstein College of Medicine KL2 scholar's award (mentored research development) in 2017 entitled "The Biological and Structural Correlates of Apathy in Dementia Pathogenesis” and completed the Einstein Clinical Research Training Program Master's in Science Program. She most recently received a pilot grant entitled, “SEED: Strengthening, Engaging, and Empowering Dyads Through Nutrition & Wellness,” from New York Regional Center for Diabetes Translation Research to develop and tailor a culinary workshop for older adults with diabetes and their care partners to promote brain health. Her research interests include apathy as dementia risk factor and non-pharmacological interventions to decrease cognitive and functional decline.
