Scott Shaffer, MD is assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and pediatrics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He is director of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Consult/Liaison Service at the Children's Hospital at Montefiore, and is the deputy training director of the child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He completed his residency in psychiatry at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University, and his fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry at the New York University School of Medicine. 

Dr. Shaffer is a board member of the New York Council on Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. He is also chair of the Advisory Council for the Gold Humanism Honor Society and is a member of the Arnold P Gold Foundation Board of Trustees. 

Samuels A, Tuvia T, Patterson D, Briklin O, Shaffer S, Walker A. Characteristics of Conversion Disorder in an Urban Academic Children's Medical Center. Clin Pediatr (Phila). 2019 Jul 3; [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 31267759.

Denysenko L, Sica N, Penders T, Philbrick K, Walker A, Shaffer S, Zimbrean P, Freudenreich O, Rex N, Carroll B, Francis A. Catatonia in the medically ill: Etiology, Diagnosis, and treatment. The Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Evidence-based Medicine Subcommittee Monograph. Annals of Clinical Psychiatry 2018:30(2), 140-155.

Shaffer S., Fuentes J. On or off the “Spectrum”? The complexity of screening and diagnosing autism  spectrum disorder (ASD). JAACAP Connect. Volume 1 Issue 2, Fall 2014.

Philip NS, Shaffer S, Banik D, Johnson B: Supportive Psychotherapy- a Crash Course for Medical Students. Academic Psychiatry 2010: 34:1, 57-60.