Post Residency First-year Career Plans 2001-2012
2012
Jennifer Bernstein, M.D.: Attending psychiatrist, Washington Heights Community
Service, New York State Psychiatric/Columbia University/ Faculty, Columbia University
Department of Psychiatry/Psychoanalytic training
Elena Kamenkovich, M.D.: Resident, Psychosomatic Psychiatry, Columbia University
Department of Psychiatry
Martin Lan, M.D. Ph.D,:Research Fellow, Affective Disorders, New York Psychiatric
Institute/Columbia University Department of Psychiatry
Vivian Lee, M.D. Ph. D.: Brooklyn Community Service/ Faculty, Weill Cornell Medical
College, Private practice/ Psychoanalytic training
Conor Liston, M.D. PH. D.: Research Fellow, Desiroth Laboratory, Stanford University
Sarah Schur McCarty, M.D.: Project for Psychiatric Outreach for the Homeless/ Faculty,
Weill Cornell Medical College/ Private practice
Alexandra Sacks, M.D,: Fellow, Columbia University Women’s Mental Health program.
Maya Stowe, M.D.: Private group practice at the Therapy Center of New York/Faculty,
Weill Cornell Medical College
Elhav Weinstein, M.D.: Attending psychiatrist, Outpatient department, Payne Whitney
Clinic-Manhattan/ Faculty, Weill Cornell Medical College/Psychoanalytic training.
Benjamin Zebley, M.D.: Fellow, Emergency Psychiatry at New York Presbyterian
Hospital-Columbia University/Private Practice
Matthew Zimmerman, M.D.: Attending psychiatrist on the 9 Garden North Inpatient
service of New York Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia Campus/Faculty, Columbia
University Department of Psychiatry/Psychoanalytic training
2011
Alexandra Ackerman, M.D: Private Practice
Benjamin Brody, M.D: Full time faculty, Weill-Cornell Department of
Psychiatry/Continued research with Dr. James Kocsis/Private Practice
Connie Cha, M.D: Fellow in Public Psychiatry at the Columbia University-New York
State Psychiatric Institute Program/ Faculty, Weill-Cornell Department of
Psychiatry/Attending, Second Chance Unit, Payne Whitney Westchester
Jana Colton, M.D: Private practice/Considering a variety of other options
Christin Drake, M.D: Psychiatric Project Outreach for the Homeless/Voluntary faculty of
the Cornell Department of Psychiatry/Private Practice
Jennifer Kraker, M.D: Private practice/Attending psychiatrist, Realization Center
John Nguyen, M.D: Resident in Addiction Psychiatry, University of California, San
Francisco/San Francisco Veterans Affairs Hospital
Vishal Patel, M.D: Attending psychiatrist at the Psychiatric Project Outreach for the
Homeless/Voluntary faculty at Weill-Cornell/Private Practice.
Xenia Protopopescu, M.D., Ph.D: Resident, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, New York
Presbyterian Hospital-Cornell/Columbia University
Jennifer Velander, M.D: Resident in Addiction Psychiatry, Beth Israel Hospital, New
York City
Genevieve Yuen, M.D., Ph.D: Resident in Geriatric Psychiatry, New York Presbyterian
Hospital-Cornell University
2010
Vanessa Bobb, M.D. Ph.D: Resident, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, ColumbiaCornell Program
Joseph Cousin, M.D: Full-time private practice; Faculty/ Weill Cornell Medical College
Janna Gordon-Elliott, M.D: Resident, Psychosomatic Psychiatry, New York Presbyterian
Hospital-Columbia Campus/New York State Psychiatric Institute.
Cary Gunther, M.D. Ph.D: Memory Disorders Group/ Weill Cornell Department of
Neurology.
Jennifer Halper, M.D. Full-time Attending/Bellevue Hospital/Emergency Psychiatry
CPEP; Faculty/NYU Langone Medical Center School of Medicine.
Sargam Jain, M.D: Fellow/Public Psychiatry/New York State Psychiatric
Institute/Columbia University Program/Project for Psychiatric Outreach for the
Homeless.
Aruna Khilanani, M.D: Resident/Forensic Psychiatry/Bellevue Hospital/NYU/Langone
Medical Center School of Medicine.
Andrew Kopelman, M.D: Research Fellow/ Forensic Psychiatry/Columbia University
Department of Psychiatry,/New York State Psychiatric Institute
Annie Lau, M.D: Resident, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Columbia-Cornell Program
Sarah Meyer, M.D: Full-time Attending/ 9 Garden North Inpatient Service/New York
Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia Campus; Faculty/ Columbia University College of
Physicians and Surgeons
Wendy Moyal, M.D: Resident, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Columbia-Cornell
Program
Malika Seth, M.D: Full-time private practice; Faculty/ Weill Cornell Medical College/
Department of Psychiatry
2009
Kwame Akowuah, M.D: Resident, Forensic Psychiatry, New York University/Bellevue
Hospital Program
David Brda, M.D: Psychiatry Attending, Schizophrenia Research unit, New York State
Psychiatric Institute; Faculty, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Lina Fine, M.D: Fellow, Sleep Medicine, Department of Neurology, New York
Presbyterian Hospital-Cornell Campus
Sireesha Jathavedam, M.D: Resident, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, ColumbiaCornell Program
Laurie Kane, M.D: Part time Primary Care Medical Physician and Project Outreach for
the Homeless, Part-time Private Practice, Women’s Reproductive Psychiatry
Julie Penzner, M.D: Psychiatric Attending, 9-Garden North Inpatient Service New York
State Psychiatric Institute; Faculty, Columbia University College of Physicians and
Surgeons
Marisa Perez-Reisler, M.D: Resident, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, ColumbiaCornell Program
Lorin Scher, M.D: Resident, Psychosomatic Medicine, University of California, Davis
Michael Walton, M.D: Psychiatric Attending, 11S Inpatient Service, New York
Presbyterian Hospital/Cornell University/Payne Whitney Clinic; Faculty, Weill Cornell
Medical College
2008
Dina Abell, M.D: Attending psychiatrist, Payne Whitney Clinic, Manhattan;
Faculty, Weill Medical College of Cornell University; Candidate, Columbia University
Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research
Pradeep Atluri, M.D. Ph.D: Resident, Addiction Psychiatry, New York State Psychiatric
Institute/Columbia University
Marina Benaur, M.D: Attending psychiatrist, Inpatient service, New York Presbyterian
Hospital-Columbia campus; Faculty, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Ziv Cohen, M.D: Attending psychiatrist, Payne Whitney Clinic, Manhattan;
Faculty, Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Marc Dubin, M.D., Ph. D: Research Fellow, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry,
Columbia University/New York State Psychiatric Institute (laboratory of Dr. Bradley
Peterson)
Zachary Freyberg, M.D. Ph. D: Research fellow in the Department of Psychiatry at
Columbia University/New York State Psychiatric Institute (laboratory of Dr. Jonathan
Javitch) Attending in psychiatry at New York Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia campus
and Creedmoor Psychiatric Hospital.
Ronit Kedem, M.D: Resident in Psychosomatic Psychiatry, Brigham and Women’s
Hospital/Harvard University
Sonali Sharma, M.D: Part-time private practice; Part-time in CPEP, New York
Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia campus; Faculty, Weill Medical College of Cornell
University and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Laura Sirulnik M.D: Full-time attending, Inpatient service, North Central Bronx Hospital;
Instructor of Psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
Jessica Zonana, M.D: Attending psychiatrist, Payne Whitney Clinic, Manhattan;
Faculty, Weill Medical College of Cornell University
2007
Amir Afkhami, M.D., Ph.D: Instructor of Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry and
Behavioral Sciences and Assistant Professor in the School of Public Health and Health
Services/Global Health Division/ George Washington University
Ariela Berman, M.D: Attending psychiatrist, Inpatient service, New York Presbyterian
Hospital-Columbia campus; Faculty, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University
College of Physicians and Surgeons; Candidate, Columbia University Center for
Psychoanalytic Training and Research.
Corey Carr, M.D: Attending psychiatrist, Inpatient service, New York Presbyterian
Hospital-Columbia campus; Faculty, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Jessica Daniels, M.D: Resident, Psychosomatic psychiatry, Memorial Sloan Kettering
Cancer Center-New York Presbyterian Hospital-Cornell program
Alexander Feller, M.D: Attending psychiatrist, Emergency Service, New York
Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia campus; Faculty, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia
University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Paige Friedlander, M.D: Attending psychiatrist, Women’s Focus Unit, San Francisco
General Hospital; Instructor in Psychiatry at University of California, San Francisco.
Anuj Gupta, M.D: Resident, Forensic Psychiatry, New York University
Steven Levine, M.D: Resident, Psychosomatic psychiatry, Memorial Sloan Kettering
Cancer Center-New York Presbyterian Hospital-Cornell program
Feyza Marouf, M.D: Resident, Geriatric Psychiatry, New York Presbyterian HospitalCornell program
Prapti Mehta, M.D: Director, Walk-in Clinic and Psychiatric Evaluation Service,
Bellevue Hospital; Instructor in Psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine
Mallay Occhiogrosso, M.D: Attending psychiatrist, Payne Whitney Clinic, Manhattan;
Faculty, Weill Medical College of Cornell University
James Wolak, M.D: Medical Director, Psychiatric Emergency Department, Maine
Medical Center, Portland, Maine; Instructor in Psychiatry at the University of Vermont
College of Medicine.
2006
Natasha H. Chriss, M.D: Full-time private practice; Candidate, Columbia University
Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research; Faculty, Cornell University
Department of Psychiatry
Christina C.Dziedzic, M.D: Faculty and full-time inpatient attending, Department of
Psychiatry, Weill-Cornell Medical Center
Diana Feldman, M.D: Resident, Geriatric Psychiatry, New York Presbyterian HospitalCornell program
Kendall L. Genre, M.D: Attending psychiatrist, Ochsner Clinic, New Orleans, Louisiana;
Faculty, Department of Psychiatry, Louisiana State University.
Bruce Leuchter, M.D: Faculty and Director, Neuropsychiatry clinical service,
Department of Psychiatry, Weill-Cornell Medical Center
Mark J.Petrini, M.D, Ph.D.: Attending psychiatrist, Emergency Room of New York
Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia campus; Faculty, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia
University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Neala Rafizadeh, M.D: Attending psychiatrist, Inpatient service, New York Presbyterian
Hospital-Columbia campus; Faculty, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Karen B. Rosenbaum, M.D: Resident, Forensic psychiatry, University of California, Los
Angeles
Charles P. Stowell, M.D: Resident, Psychosomatic psychiatry, Memorial Sloan Kettering
Cancer Center-New York Presbyterian Hospital-Cornell program
Christina A. Treece, M.D: Resident, Psychosomatic psychiatry, Memorial Sloan
Kettering Cancer Center-New York Presbyterian Hospital-Cornell program
April J. Zhu, M.D: Attending psychiatrist, Kaiser Permanente, Santa Clara, California;
Attending, Teen and Women’s Mood and Hormone Clinic and faculty, University of
California, San Francisco
2005
Maha Ahmad, M.D: Resident, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, New York Presbyterian
Hospital-Cornell campus
Justine Donovan, M.D: Fellow in Community Psychiatry, Columbia University and New
York State Psychiatric Institute.
David Galarneau, M.D: Faculty and full-time inpatient attending, Department of
Psychiatry, Weill-Cornell Medical Center
Andrew Gerber, M.D. Ph.D: Research Fellow, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry,
Columbia University/New York State Psychiatric Institute; Faculty of the University
College in London Psychoanalytic Research Training Program; Candidate, Columbia
University Center for Training and Research
Ritu Ghai, M.D: Resident, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, New York Presbyterian
Hospital-Cornell campus
Judith Gold, M.D: Sackler Fellow in Mother-Infant psychiatry, Weill-Cornell Medical
Center; Faculty and full-time attending, Cornell University Department of Psychiatry
Nikki Gordon-Skovby, M.D: Part-time private practice
Erika Marshall, M.D: Part-time private practice
Joseph Matta, M.D: Unit Chief, Adult Inpatient Psychiatry, St. Vincent’s Catholic
Medical Center; Faculty, New York Medical College.
Lori Spechler-Sidman, M.D: Faculty, Disaster Psychiatry Outreach , Mt. Sinai Hospital
and Medical College; Candidate, Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic
Training and Research
2004
Samantha Boardman, M.D: Voluntary faculty, New York Presbyterian Hospital-Cornell
Anna Chapman, M.D: Study group in neuropsychoanalysis, Capetown, South Africa,
(Dr. Mark Solms.) Voluntary faculty, New York Presbyterian Hospital-Cornell;
Candidate, Psychoanalytic training, Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic
Training and Research
Adam Estevez, M.D: Resident in Psychiatry and the Law, Cornell-Columbia
Peter Freed, M.D: Research fellow in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia
University/New York State Psychiatric Institute in the laboratory of Dr. John Mann
studying the neurobiology of grief.
Tammy Gotlieb, M.D: Faculty, New York Presbyterian Hospital-Cornell, Outpatient C/L
attending, Medical student mental health program, private practice.
Todd Loftus, M.D: Attending, Center for Special Services, HIV Related Disorders, New
York Presbyterian Hospital-Cornell
Alison Lomonaco, M.D: Full-time Attending Payne Whitney Clinic Inpatient Services/
Psychoanalytic Training, New York Psychoanalytic Institute
Oren Messeri, M.D: Fellow in Emergency Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical
Center
Nicole Regent, M.D: Faculty, New York Presbyterian Hospital-Cornell, PWC Women’s
Clinic; Medical Student Mental Health Program.
Julia Samton, M.D: Faculty, Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry, New York
Presbyterian Hospital-Cornell, Multiple Sclerosis clinic, Parkinson’s Disease research
Private practice
Christine Truman, M.D: Faculty of Brown University School of Medicine, Attending at
Rhode Island Hospital in an inpatient unit and in an outpatient mood disorders program.
2003
Osman Ali, M.D: Public Psychiatry Fellowship, New York State Psychiatric Institute,
Columbia
Tuna Burgut, M.D: Research Assistant, Department of Psychiatry, Mt. Sinai Medical
Center
Jennifer Cooper, M.D: Resident in Addiction Psychiatry, Departments of Psychiatry and
Public Health, Cornell
Beth Judge, M.D.: Resident in Psychiatry and the Law, Cornell-Columbia
Doonam Kim, M.D: Resident in Forensic Psychiatry, New York University
Charles Lilly, M.D: Clinical Research Associate, Laboratory for the Biology of Addictive
Diseases, Rockefeller University
Laurie Malkoff, M.D: Attending Psychiatry Disaster Psychiatry Outreach/
Psychopharmacology Associate/Klein-Liebowitz Psychiatric Associates
Rory Marraccini, M.D: Private Practice with Hidden Valley Neuropsychiatry
Clinic.Pittsburgh, PA/Medical Staff, Monongahela Balley Hospital, Monongahela, PA.
Sandra Park, M.D: Part-Time Attending Payne Whitney Clinic Inpatient Services/
Psychoanalytic Training, Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research
A. Valentine Raiteri, M.D: Part-Time Attending Payne Whitney Clinic Inpatient
Services; Candidate, Psychoanalytic Training, Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic
Training and Research
Regan Stanger, M.D: Resident in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, New York
Presbyterian Hospital-Cornell
2002
Rebecca Adams, MD: Resident in Psychiatry and the Law, Cornell-Columbia
Gary Brendel, MD: Research Fellowship, Neuroimaging Laboratory, De-Witt Wallace
Reader’s Digest Foundation, Weill-Medical College of Cornell University
Greg Dillon, MD: Part-Time Attending Payne Whitney Clinic Inpatient Services/ Private
Practice
Daniel Gorman, MD: Resident in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Boston Children’s
Hospital, Harvard
Chris Kauffman, MD: Consultation Liaison Fellowship, New York Presbyterian Hospital,
Columbia
Sarah Klagsbrun, MD: Resident in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, New York
Presbyterian Hospital-Cornell
Jeffrey Schulden, MD: Research Fellowship, Epidemic Intelligence Office, Centers for
Disease Control, Atlanta
Khakasa Wapenyi, MD: Public Psychiatry Fellowship, New York State Psychiatric
Institute, Columbia
2001
Andrew Bennett, MD, JD: Research Fellowship, Substance Abuse and Eating Disorders,
New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia
Lisa Berman, MD: Part-Time Attending, Payne Whitney Clinic Inpatient
Service/Psychoanalytic Training, Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and
Research
Pamela Buchbinder, MD: Resident in Addiction Psychiatry, Departments of Psychiatry
and Public Health, Cornell
Daria Colombo, MD: Part-Time Attending, Payne Whitney Clinic Inpatient
Service/Psychoanalytic Training, New York Psychoanalytic Institute
David Fedoronko, MD: Consultation Liaison Fellowship, New York Presbyterian
Hospital-Columbia
Jill Jacobson, MD: Unit Chief, Payne Whitney Clinic Inpatient Service/ Psychoanalytic
Training, Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research
Jason Kim, MD: Part-Time Attending, Payne Whitney Clinic Outpatient
Department/Visiting Fellow, Laboratory of Biological Modeling, Rockefeller University
Lorraine Marshall, MD: Resident in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Columbia
Rebecca Smith, MD: Public Psychiatry Fellowship, New York State Psychiatric
Institute, Columbia