Lisa B. Teh

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Lisa

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Teh

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Sharon R. Spitzer

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Sharon

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Spitzer

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<p>Dr. Spitzer is the Administrative Director of Inpatient Psychiatry at the Montefiore Medical Center's Moses Division. She is responsible for the development, implementation and supervision of the Klau-2 milieu treatment program and supervises behavioral management interventions for the milieu, including the management of crisis and individualized behavior plans for high-risk patients. Dr. Spitzer&nbsp;provides direct supervision of administrative staff, Social Workers, and the Creative Arts Therapy team. She conducts clinical supervision of Psychiatry Residents and Psychology Interns in individual and family therapy, and interpersonal group psychotherapy.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Dr. Spitzer has also developed the Montefiore Crisis Management (MCM) Program, a hospital-wide crisis intervention training protocol. She teaches this program to Dept of Psychiatry and MMC security staff, as well as hospital staff in&nbsp;med/surg, ED, ID Clinic, SATP &nbsp;and other clinical areas. She consults with medical units&nbsp;on the behavioral management of difficult patients utilizing MCM principles. Dr. Spitzer teaches didactic seminars&nbsp;in group psychotherapy, psychodynamic case presentations, inpatient behavioral treatment, behavioral management of crises&nbsp;and forensic psychology.</p>

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Tihomir Stefanec

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Tihomir

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Stefanec

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<p>I am interested in Internal Medicine, Critical Care Medicine and Pulmonary Medicine. &nbsp;My current interest is Critical Care Medicine. &nbsp;</p>

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Multidisciplinary Critical Care Medicine (Medical, Surgical, Neurologic, Cardiothoracic).<quillbot-extension-portal></quillbot-extension-portal>

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Role of the endothelium and its progenitors in the pathogenesis of disease.<quillbot-extension-portal></quillbot-extension-portal>

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<p>Tihomir Stefanec, MD, is Attending Physician, Critical Care Medicine, Assistant Professor, Medicine and Neurology at Montefiore Einstein. His clinical focus is multidisciplinary critical care medicine including medical, surgical, neurologic and cardiothoracic critical care.</p><p>After earning his Doctor of Medicine from the University of Zagreb Medical School in Zagreb, Croatia in 1992, Dr. Stefanec completed an internal medicine internship and residency at Long Island College Hospital in 1997. He then completed a critical care medicine fellowship at Saint Vincent&rsquo;s Hospital and Medical Center in 1999. Following this, Dr. Stefanec completed a pulmonary medicine fellowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in 2001.</p><p>Dr. Stefanec&rsquo;s past research focuses on the role of the endothelium and its progenitors in the pathogenesis of disease. His work has been published in peer-reviewed original publications, reviews, editorials and abstracts, and he has presented nationally.</p><p>Dr. Stefanec is board certified in Internal Medicine, Critical Care Medicine and Pulmonary Medicine by the American Board of Internal Medicine, as well as in Neurocritical Care by the United Council for Neurologic Subspecialties. He has been a Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians since 2003, and is a member of the American Thoracic Society, the American College of Chest Physicians and the European Respiratory Society.</p>

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Daniel J. Smuckler

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Daniel

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Smuckler

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Scott H. Shaffer

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Scott

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Shaffer

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<p><span>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.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p>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.&nbsp;</p>

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Dr. Shaffer&rsquo;s clinical focus is around the evaluation and treatment of somatic symptom disorders, autism spectrum disorder, and medical education. His research focus is on somatic symptom disorders and medical education.

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<p>Samuels A, Tuvia T, Patterson D, Briklin O, <strong>Shaffer S</strong>, Walker A.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31267759/">Characteristics of Conversion Disorder in an Urban Academic Children's Medical Center.&nbsp;</a>Clin Pediatr (Phila).&nbsp;2019 Jul 3; [Epub ahead of print]&nbsp;PubMed PMID: 31267759.</p>
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<p>Denysenko L, Sica N, Penders T, Philbrick K, Walker A, <strong>Shaffer S, </strong>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.</p>
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<p><strong>Shaffer S</strong>., Fuentes J. On or off the &ldquo;Spectrum&rdquo;? The complexity of screening and diagnosing autism &nbsp;spectrum disorder (ASD). JAACAP Connect. Volume 1 Issue 2, Fall 2014.</p>
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<p>Philip NS, <strong>Shaffer S</strong>, Banik D, Johnson B: Supportive Psychotherapy- a Crash Course for Medical Students. Academic Psychiatry 2010: 34:1, 57-60.</p>

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<p>Scott Shaffer, MD, is Director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Consult-Liaison Service and Deputy Director of Training, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. He is also an Assistant Professor at our Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
</p><p>After receiving his Bachelor of Arts degree in Biological Sciences from Rutgers University in 2003, Dr. Shaffer continued his education at Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School where he earned his Doctor of Medicine degree in 2006. He earned his first residency in General Psychiatry from Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University in 2010 and his second residency in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry from the New York University School of Medicine in 2012.
</p><p>Dr. Shaffer&rsquo;s clinical focus is around the evaluation and treatment of somatic symptom disorders, autism spectrum disorder, and medical education. His research focus is on somatic symptom disorders and medical education.
</p><p>Dr. Shaffer is board certified and involved in a number of committees. He is Chair of the Nominating Committee and on the Advisory Council for the Gold Humanism Honor Society, a program of the Arnold P. Gold Foundation. Along with being a Board Member for the New York Council of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry he is also Co-Chair of their Medical Student Subcommittee. At the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Dr. Shaffer serves as a co-chair for the Committee on Admissions, and is a member of the Clinical Skills Assessment Subcommittee, and the Child Psychiatry Executive Training Committee.
</p><p>He is an active member of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, New York Council of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and Gold Humanism Honor Society.
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Merryl A. Schechtman

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Merryl

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Schechtman

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Alessandra Scalmati

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<p>Dr. Alessandra Scalmati is Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, NY, where she is Associate Director of the Fellowship in Geriatric Psychiatry, and Associate Director of the Division of Geriatric Psychiatry. She is board certified in General and Geriatric Psychiatry and in Psychosomatic Medicine.&nbsp;</p>
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<p>Dr Scalmati received an MD, PhD from the University of Modena, Italy and completed her training in general and geriatric psychiatry at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, NY. Dr Scalmati's areas of interests include: medical educatio, the provision of trauma informed care in social service agencies and the medical care system, the long term effects of trauma, the improvement in delivery of mental health services to trauma survivors, elder mistreatment, intervention to address staff burnout, and the development of training models to improve delivery of care. Dr Scalmati has worked to develop a curriculum to integrate the knowledge of the field of trauma studies and the field of geriatrics, and to adapt the concept of trauma informed care to geriatrics. She is committed to establish models of collaborative care between academic institutions and community agencies; and to enhance the collaboration between providers of geriatric medicine and mental health professionals. She has been the recipient of grants from UJA Federation, and the Butler Foundation.</p>

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Dr. Scalmati&rsquo;s clinical focus is on geriatric psychiatry, general psychiatry with special focus on medically complex patients, and the clinical management of long-term effects of psychological trauma in older adults.

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Dr. Scalmati&rsquo;s research interests focus on trauma-informed care principles and implementation. She has an added focus on the development of curricula for education of different constituencies from medical students to staff of community agencies in the delivery of trauma-informed care.

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<p>Alessandra Scalmati, MD, PhD, is Associate Director, Geriatric Psychiatry, Associate Director, Fellowship in Geriatric Psychiatry, and Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Montefiore-Einstein. Dr. Scalmati&rsquo;s clinical focus is on geriatric psychiatry, general psychiatry with special focus on medically complex patients, and the clinical management of long-term effects of psychological trauma in older adults.
</p><p>After receiving her Doctor of Medicine from University of Modena in Italy in 1987, Dr. Scalmati started her postdoctoral training with a yearlong internship in medicine at Clinica Medica in Modena, Italy. In 1988, she returned to University of Modena to pursue her Doctor of Philosophy in cancer pathology, earning the degree in 1992. She then came to the United States to continue her postdoctoral training with a residency in general psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine from 1992 to 1997, acting as Senior Chief Resident in her final year. She followed this with a yearlong fellowship in geriatric psychiatry at Einstein, completing it in 1998.
</p><p>Dr. Scalmati&rsquo;s research interests focus on trauma-informed care principles and implementation. She has an added focus on the development of curricula for education of different constituencies from medical students to staff of community agencies in the delivery of trauma-informed care. She has shared her research through publication in peer-reviewed journals, book chapters and review articles as well as invited presentations.
</p><p>Dr. Scalmati is board certified in psychiatry, geriatric psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine. She is a member of several professional societies including the American Psychiatric Association, the American Association of Geriatrics Psychiatry and the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. Since 2006, she has been listed as one of The Best Doctors in America.
</p><p>Dr. Scalmati&rsquo;s work has been supported by philanthropic organizations, and she has been the recipient of an award for Excellence in Medical Education by the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
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Melissa H. Rooney

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Melissa

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Rooney

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Caryn R.R. Rodgers

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<p>Dr. Rodgers focuses on adolescent health promotion in low-income urban communities. Her research examines protective and risk factors for adolescent problem behaviors (i.e., sexual risk behaviors and substance use). Through the employment of community-based participatory research (CBPR) as a research approach, Dr. Rodgers works with communities, families and youth to further understand protective factors that promote resiliency, strength and adaptive functioning among economically disadvantaged urban youth of color. Through the identification and promotion of resilience within communities, she intends to develop and promote effective prevention and intervention programming to increase adaptive and successful outcomes for low-income urban youth and families of color.</p><p>Dr. Caryn Rodgers earned her doctorate in clinical psychology from St. John's University in Jamaica, NY. Following completion of her doctorate, Dr. Rodgers completed the Leadership in Education and Adolescent Health (LEAH) psychology fellowship in adolescent medicine through Harvard Medical School. Subsequently, she completed a fellowship in Community-Based Participatory Research as a W. K. Kellogg Community Health Scholar in the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD. <br /></p>

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Erin Rivelis

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Erin

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Rivelis

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<p>Psychoeducational assessment, trauma, child maltreatment.</p>

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<p>Erin Rivelis, PhD, is an attending psychologist at the Children&rsquo;s Hospital at Montefiore Einstein and Assistant Professor, Pediatrics at our Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Rivelis&rsquo;s clinical focus centers on the assessment and treatment of children and adolescents with neurodevelopmental disabilities.</p><p>After obtaining her Bachelor of Science in psychology from the University of Michigan in 2002, Dr. Rivelis earned her Master of Education in school psychology at Teachers College, Columbia University in 2006. She remained at Columbia University and completed her Master of Philosophy and Doctor of Philosophy in applied educational psychology in 2008. The same year, Dr. Rivelis completed a psychology internship at the Jewish Care Association&rsquo;s Pleasantville Cottage School, Edenwald Center, Diagnostic Center.</p><p>Dr. Rivelis&rsquo;s research focuses on the intersection of mental health conditions and neurodevelopmental disabilities. Her work has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals, books, chapters and review articles, and she has shared her work at many invited presentations, conferences and symposia.</p><p>Dr. Rivelis is a member of several professional organizations, including the American Psychological Association, the Anxiety and Depression Association of America and the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies.</p>

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