Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Veena R. Muthusamy
Audrey M. Walker
<p>Audrey Walker M.D. is a child and adolescent psychiatrist with an interest in pediatric psychosomatic medicine, pediatric integrated behavioral care and medical student education in psychiatry. Dr Walker is the division chief and program director in child and adolescent psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center. Dr Walker is also director of medical student education in psychiatry at Einstein/Montefiore.Dr Walker triple boarded in neurology and psychiatry , child and adolescent psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine and is a fellow in the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine. Dr Walker completed her psychiatric residency and fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry at the New York Hospital/Cornell University Medical Center after receiving her M.D.degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and her B.A. with honors from Harvard University. Dr Walker has published and presented at national meetings in the areas of pediatric psychosomatic medicine and medical student education in psychiatry.</p>
Pediatric Psychosomatic Medicine
<p>Freudenreich O, Huffman J, Sharpe M, Walker A, et.al. Updates in Psychosomatic Medicine: 2014. <em>Psychosomatics</em> 2015; 56(5): 445-459. PMID: 26032045.</p>
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<p>Walker AM, Pao M, Nguyen N. Pediatric Psychosomatic Medicine: Creating a Template for Training. <em>Psychosomatics</em>. 2012; 53(6): 532-540. PMID: 22658325.</p>
Carmencita C. Vicencio
<p><span>Carmencita C. Vicencio, MD is a board certified adult psychiatrist, with additional board certification in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Her clinical practice in the community, includes comprehensive psychiatric evaluation and treatment of adults, adolescents and children, and providing psychotherapeutic intervention to the family, whenever indicated. She has special interests in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Childhood Anxiety and Mood Disorders and Integrated Treatment of Mental Illness and Primary Care. She enjoys teaching and is actively involve in the clinical rotation of medical students at Montefiore Behavioral Health Center. </span></p>
<p>Dr. Vicencio completed her residency training in Psychiatry at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. She is a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.</p>
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Dr. Vicencio's clinical focuses are on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, autism spectrum disorder, childhood anxiety and mood disorder and the integrated treatment of mental health and primary care.
Dr. Vicencio's research focus is on the area of pharmacogenomics and its role in the treatment of psychiatric disorders.
<p>Carmencita Vicencio, MD, is Attending Psychiatrist at Montefiore and Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at our Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Her clinical focuses are on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, autism spectrum disorder, childhood anxiety and mood disorder and the integrated treatment of mental health and primary care.</p><p>In 1987, Dr. Vicencio received her Bachelor of Science at the University of the East in Manila, Philippines. She then attended the Angeles University Foundation College of Medicine in the Philippines, where she received her Doctor of Medicine in 1992. Dr. Vicencio began her postgraduate training in Memphis, Tennessee, at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. There, she completed the Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program in 2004. She continued to train at the institution and completed the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship Program in 2005. Following this, she completed the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship Program at Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center in 2008.</p><p>Her research focus is in the area of pharmacogenomics and its role in the treatment of psychiatric disorders.<span> </span></p><p>Dr. Vicencio is board certified by the American Board of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Neurology.</p>
Scott H. Shaffer
<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. </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. </p>
Dr. Shaffer’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>Samuels A, Tuvia T, Patterson D, Briklin O, <strong>Shaffer S</strong>, Walker A. <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31267759/">Characteristics of Conversion Disorder in an Urban Academic Children's Medical Center. </a>Clin Pediatr (Phila). 2019 Jul 3; [Epub ahead of print] 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 “Spectrum”? The complexity of screening and diagnosing autism 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>
<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’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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Kashmira Rustomji
Melissa H. Rooney
Samira Rabbanifar
Myreille Polycarpe
<p>Myreille Polycarpe, MD is a psychiatrist with interests in Child and Adolescen Mental Health, Outpatient Psychiatry, Integrated Treatment of Mental Illness & Primary Care, Addiction Psychiatry, and International Health. </p>
<p>Dr. Myreille Polycarpe is a graduate of Milan University, Italy , completed her general psychiatry and Child & Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Missouri- Columbia and her Addiction psychiatry fellowship at Albert Einstein/ Montefiore. </p>
Adele T. Munsayac
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Dr. Adele T. Munsayac is a board-certified psychiatrist with over 28 years of experience treating adults, adolescents and children in a variety of settings. While she primarily focuses on emergency room assessment, diagnosis and crisis intervention, she is also a provider in the Adult Outpatient Department of Psychiatry at the Moses campus. She provides lectures to first-year psychiatry residents centered on emergency evaluations and crisis intervention for children and adolescents, and supervises residents, Child fellows, medical students, Psychology Interns, and Social Workers</span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Dr. Munsayac completed her residency in General Psychiatry at Nassau University Medical Center in Long Island, NY, and her Child and Adolescent Psychiatry fellowship at Montefiore Medical Center/AECOM. She is also a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. </span></span></p>
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