Mentors are invaluable in helping early career psychiatrists acquire new skills, network with career-expanding colleagues, and navigate the challenges associated with career advancement. The Department of Psychiatry and its faculty are dedicated to helping physicians navigate the transition from residency to their careers as clinicians, educators, administrators, and researchers. Get to know some of the faculty who are involved as mentors in the Geriatric Psychiatry Clinical Fellowship:
Mentor | Academic Interests |
|---|---|
| Howard Aizenstein, MD, PhD | fMRI; Late-life depression |
| Sharon Altman, MD | Consultation-liaison services |
| Carmen Andreescu, MD | fMRI; Late-life anxiety; TMS therapy |
| Tejal Bhojak, MD | Inpatient geriatric psychiatry |
| Meryl Butters, PhD | Neuropsychology; Dementia; Depression |
| Alexandre Dombrovski, MD | fMRI; Late-life suicide and its behavioral economics |
| Mary Ganguli, MD, MPH | Epidemiology of dementia |
| Marie Anne Gebara, MD | Treatment Resistant Depression |
| Ariel Gildengers, MD | Late-life bipolar disorder |
| Richard Morycz, PhD, LSW | Family burden; Home-based care; Psychotherapy |
| Sarah Stahl, PhD | Complicated grief; Depression prevention; Healthy lifestyle modification |
| Robert A. Sweet, MD | Neurobiology; Genetics of psychosis |
| Esther Teverovsky, MD | Geriatric psychiatry education |
| James Tew, Jr., MD | Transitions in care; Health care reform |
| Crystal White, MD | Geriatric psychiatry education; Inpatient psychiatry |
| Ellen Whyte, MD | Depression and stroke: Psychotic depression |