Rubiahna L. Vaughn

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Rubiahna

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Vaughn

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Jamie T. Twaite

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Jamie

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Twaite

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Dr. Twaite&rsquo;s clinical focus is on the neuropsychological evaluation and rehabilitation of individuals with cognitive and emotional concerns related to neurologic, medical, and psychiatric illness. She has a particular interest in the diagnosis and management of dementias and acquired brain injury(ABI), as well as in the rehabilitation of of spinal cord injury (both with and without concurrent ABI).<quillbot-extension-portal></quillbot-extension-portal>

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Dr. Twaite&rsquo;s research interests include cognitive and emotional functioning following stroke, TBI, and other acquired brain injury, as well as in individuals with Parkinson&rsquo;s disease and in healthy populations, such as musicians.<quillbot-extension-portal></quillbot-extension-portal>

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<p>Jamie Twaite, PhD, is a Neuropsychologist, Co-Director, Burke Rehabilitation Hospital&rsquo;s Concussion Management Program, Director, Neuropsychology Externship and Assistant Professor, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Montefiore Einstein. Her clinical focus is on the neuropsychological evaluation and rehabilitation of individuals with cognitive and emotional concerns related to neurologic, medical and psychiatric illnesses. She has a particular interest in the diagnosis and management of dementia and acquired brain injury (ABI), as well as in the rehabilitation of spinal cord injury (both with and without concurrent ABI).</p><p>After completing her Master of Psychology at Columbia University in 2008, Dr. Twaite pursued her Doctor of Philosophy in psychology at City University of New York (CUNY), earning the degree in 2016. That same year, she completed an APA-accredited predoctoral internship in clinical psychology-adult neuropsychology track with the Henry Ford Health System. She then went on to complete her postdoctoral fellowship in clinical neuropsychology with the Institute of Living, Hartford Hospital, with focused training in the assessment of memory disorders/dementias, acquired brain injuries, and severe and persistent mental illness.</p><p>Dr. Twaite&rsquo;s research interests include cognitive and emotional functioning following stroke, traumatic brain injury (TBI) and other acquired brain injury in individuals with Parkinson&rsquo;s disease as well as in healthy populations, such as in musicians. Her work has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals and she has given paper and poster presentations at scientific meetings nationally and internationally. Dr. Twaite is a reviewer for the <em>Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology</em> and the <em>Journal of Psycholinguistic Research</em>.</p><p>Dr. Twaite is a member of several professional associations, including the American Psychological Association (APA), the Society for Clinical Neuropsychology and the International Neuropsychological Society. In 2013, Dr. Twaite received the Graduate Center Doctoral Student Research Grant from CUNY.</p>

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Lisa B. Teh

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Lisa

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Teh

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Asli S. Sucu

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Asli

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Sucu

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Brian D. Spund

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Brian

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Matthew D. Shaines

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Matthew

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Shaines

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<p>Dr. Matthew Shaines completed a medical degree at SUNY Downstate Medical Center - Brooklyn and an internal medicine residency at Montefiore/Einstein. He was then recruited to the Einstein faculty at Montefiore and became one of the initial group of hospitalists who founded the Teaching Hospitalist Program at Montefiore in 2004.</p>
<p>Dr. Shaines has served as Assistant Director of the Hospitalist Service, managing the Moses Teaching Hospitalist Program; founding Director of the Medicine Consult Service, creating a dedicated medicine consult rotation for the housestaff, with a mission of high quality service and education on topics pertaining to consultative and perioperative medicine; Associate Program Director for the Internal Medicine Residency Program, serving as a liaison between the program and the Division of Hospital Medicine. In 2018 he was appointed as the Associate Chief of Hospital Medicine for Education.</p>
<p>His teaching and academic interests are in clinical reasoning, quality improvement and faculty development. He serves as the lead vignette reviewer for Montefiore&rsquo;s annual Division of General Internal Medicine/Division of Hospital Medicine SGIM/SHM scholarly review process, which helps to review and critique abstracts, posters and oral presentations prior to submission.</p>

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Scott H. 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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Adarsha Selvachandran

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Hart W. Risdell

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Raminder K. Parihar

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Dr. Parihar is focused on expanding the DBS to improve the quality of life of patients with tremors, Parkinson's disease, and dystonia.

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Dr. Parihar is interested in studying gait disorders and working to find advanced therapies to improve them.&nbsp;

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<p><span id="docs-internal-guid-7b0a3849-df15-2ae7-5b01-dfa6f02928ba">1. Parihar, R; Mahoney, JR; Verghese, J. Relationship of Gait and Cognition in the Elderly. Curr Transl Geriatr Exp Gerontol Rep. 2013 Sep 1;2(3)</span></p>
<p>2. Bakshi K,&nbsp;Parihar R, Goswami SK, Walsh M, Friedman E, Wang HY. Prenatal cocaine exposure uncouples mGluR1 from Homer1 and Gq proteins. PLoS One. 2014 Mar 13;9(3):e91671. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0091671. eCollection 2014</p>
<p>3.&nbsp;<span id="docs-internal-guid-7b0a3849-df16-5152-5f73-3dd4cf8c18ee">Parihar R, Alterman R, Papavassiliou E, Tarsy D, Shih LC. Comparison of VIM and STN DBS for Parkinsonian Resting and Postural/Action Tremor. Tremor Other Hyperkinetic Mov. 2015 July 6;5: 321</span></p>
<p>4.&nbsp;<span id="docs-internal-guid-7b0a3849-df16-989c-b0c2-e768f5de3e9a">Tarsy, Daniel, and Raminder K. Parihar. Medication-Induced Movement Disorders. Cambridge, 2015. Print.</span></p>

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<p>Raminder Parihar, MD, is Director, Neuromodulation at Montefiore Einstein and Assistant Professor, Neurology at our Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Parihar evaluates and treats patients with different movement disorders. She is also largely involved in evaluating patients for candidacy for deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgery for the treatment of different movement disorders and initiating and following up stimulation programming.</p><p>After obtaining her Bachelor of Science in biomedical sciences from the City College of New York in 2007, Dr. Parihar completed her Doctor of Medicine at Stony Brook University School of Medicine in 2009. She then came to Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where she completed an internship in medicine in 2010 and her residency in adult neurology in 2013, where she was Chief Resident in her final year. Dr. Parihar completed a fellowship in movement disorders at Harvard/Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in 2014.</p><p>Dr. Parihar&rsquo;s research focuses on gait disorders and how they can predict cognitive impairment in patients with Parkinson's disease. She also studies the impact of deep brain stimulation in improving the quality of life in patients with movement disorders. Her work has been published in peer-reviewed book chapters and publications, and she has shared her work through lectures and platform and abstract presentations.</p><p>Dr. Parihar is a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. She is a member of the American Academy of Neurology, the Movement Disorders Society and the American Medical Association (AMA). In 2023, Dr. Parihar was a recipient of the Marquis Who's Who in America Award.</p>

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