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Dr. Sigurd Ackerman
Dr. Ackerman, President and Medical Director of Silver Hill Hospital, is a Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons and has held academic titles in psychiatry at Cornell University Medical College and Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
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Dr. Ackerman, formerly Chief Executive Officer and President of St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center in New York City, is an honors graduate of Harvard College. He received his medical degree from Tufts University School of Medicine. He trained in psychiatry at Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where for 10 years his full-time research on the effects of early maternal separation was federally funded through the National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH) research scientist development awards, and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) research project awards. Before joining St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital as chairman of its department of psychiatry, Dr. Ackerman led a clinical research unit for affective disorders and was the Associate Director for Clinical Affairs and Research at the Eating Disorders Institute of New York Hospital, Cornell University Medical Center, Westchester Division. >TOP |
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Dr. Barry Kerner
Dr. Kerner, Physician-in-Chief, became associated with Silver Hill Hospital in 1999 as a staff psychiatrist. He was promoted to Chief of Adult Psychiatry in May, 2001 and was, again, promoted in January, 2003 to his current position as Physician-in- |
Chief. He is responsible for a staff of 32 psychiatrists.
Prior to joining Silver Hill Hospital, Dr. Kerner had a private practice in psychiatry in Kingston, Poughkeepsie, and Katonah, New York. He has 25 years experience in the field of psychiatry and has held several medical directorships. Dr. Kerner was managing partner of a large psychiatric group practice in California prior to moving to the east coast.
Dr. Kerner received his M.D. from the University of Health Sciences at the Chicago Medical School, and was a resident in psychiatry at the University of Southern California Medical Center and the UCLA School of Medicine. He also studied medical acupuncture for physicians at the University of California. Faculty appointments include Assistant Clinical Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at UCLA School of Medicine, and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California in Los Angeles.
Dr. Kerner is a founding diplomate of the American Board of Holistic Medicine. He was the first doctor in the state of Connecticut to be board certified in psychiatry and neurology, as well as holistic medicine. Dr. Kerner is also board certified in pain medicine. >TOP |
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Dr. Ava Albrecht
Dr. Albrecht is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at NYU School of Medicine. She graduated from Rush Medical College and completed her residency at |
| New York University. She is certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Prior to joining our staff, Dr. Albrecht was on staff at Bellevue Hospital Center and Premier HealthCare. She is an active member of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the New York District Council of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Dr. Albrecht has published several articles and books related to child and adolescent psychiatry, including Treatment of Children
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Dr. Evan Bellin
Dr. Bellin is Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He is a graduate and former faculty member of the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. He completed his undergraduate |
work in political science at Dartmouth College and went on to study medicine at the University of California in Los Angeles. He did a medical internship at Maimonides Hospital in Brooklyn, followed by a psychiatric residency at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He completed a fellowship in Community Psychiatry at the Bronx Psychiatric Center and a second fellowship in Family Therapy at the Philadelphia Child Guidance Center under the supervision of Dr. Salvador Minuchin.
Hospital based psychiatry has been a special interest of Dr. Bellin. Before coming to Silver Hill Hospital, he spent 25 years working in the Bronx at the Bronx Psychiatric Center on almost all its teaching, clinical and administrative levels. He finally served as the hospital's clinical director, being responsible for the care of its 600 patients.
Dr. Bellin is a citizen of both the United States and Israel. He spends a considerable amount of professional and personal time in Israel where he has been a guest lecturer and clinical supervisor at Rambam Hospital in Haifa and at Haemek Hospital in Afula. Dr. Bellin has been in private practice for over thirty years. He currently maintains active practices in Israel's Jezreel Valley, Tel Aviv, New Rochelle, New York and New Canaan, Connecticut. He has lectured, taught, and written on a wide range of subjects ranging from the psychodynamic meaning of psychiatric medication to the analysis of textual strategies in psychotherapeutic treatments. >TOP |
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Dr. Amir Garakani
Dr. Amir Garakani is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He is certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. |
| He received his B.A. in Classics (Latin), cum laude, with Distinction in All Subjects, from Cornell University. Dr. Garakani received his M.D. from the SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, NY. He completed his residency at the Mount Sinai Medical Center and postdoctoral research fellowship at the Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Dr. Garakani also completed a fellowship in Forensic Psychiatry at New York University Medical Center. He is an active member in several professional associations, including the American Psychiatric Association, the Anxiety Disorders Association of America and the Society of Biological Psychiatry. He has won several awards in psychiatry, including the ADAA Trainee Travel Award, the APA - NY County District Branch Resident Research Award, the APA/Lilly Resident Research Award and the SOBP Travel Scholarship Award. He was also an APA/GlaxoSmithKline Fellow and a Fellow of the Group of the Advancement of Psychiatry. He has participated in NIMH-funded research and published several peer-reviewed original research papers, review papers and book chapters. Dr. Garakani also serves as an Independent Psychiatric Examiner for the Appellate Division Panel of the New York State Supreme Court. >TOP |
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Dr. Irwin Gelman
Dr. Gelman is an Instructor in Psychiatry at New York Medical College. He graduated with honors in Psychiatry from New York Medical College and completed a Fellowship in Child and Adolescent |
| Psychiatry at Saint Vincent's Catholic Medical Centers of New York, Westchester Division. Prior to joining Silver Hill Hospital, Dr. Gelman was the Chief of Child and Adolescent Treatment Services at Saint Vincent's Catholic Medical Centers of New York, Westchester Division. He also maintained a private practice, specializing in Child, Adolescent, and Adult Outpatient Therapy for eighteen years. Dr. Gelman is licensed in both Connecticut and New York and is Board Eligible in General and Child/Adolescent Psychiatry. >TOP |
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Dr. Sandra Gomez
Dr. Sandra Gomez is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine and a second year candidate at the New York University's Psychoanalytic Institute. She is certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and |
Neurology in General and in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
Dr. Gomez graduated Cum Laude from Pedro H. Urena National University School of Medicine in the Dominican Republic. She completed her fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry at Columbia University's St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center where she became chief resident during her senior year.
Dr. Gomez has a strong interest in studying Adolescent suicide, an interest that originated from her contact with hundreds of suicidal children, adolescents and young adults during her tenure as the Director of the Emergency Services for the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Bellevue Hospital Center in New York City. Since then Dr. Gomez has participated in prominent research projects in this field such as the treatment of Adolescents Suicide Attempters (TASA) study. She is a member of the Advisory Board for the David Dawes Nee II Foundation for Suicide Prevention, Awareness and Research.
Dr. Gomez has co-authored several peer-reviewed articles, contributing to her field in areas as diverse as Anxiety Disorders and ADHD in adolescents, among others. >TOP |
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| Dr. Robert Guerrera
Dr. Guerrera received his medical degree from the Universita’ degli Studi di Bologna, Facolta’ di Medicina e Chirurgia in Bologna, Italy. He completed his residency training in psychiatry at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, NC, where he |
served as the chief resident of the Psychiatric Outpatient Clinic.
Dr. Guerrera specializes in the treatment of dual diagnosis, including major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and addictive disorders. His interests include emergency psychiatry and psycho-oncology. Dr. Guerrera joined the medical staff at Silver Hill Hospital in August 2004. He is board eligible in Psychiatry and Neurology and certified in Electroconvulsive Therapy. >TOP
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| Dr. Anri Kissilenko
Dr. Kissilenko received his medical degree from The Higher Institute of Medicine in Sofia, Bulgaria. After moving to the United States, Dr. Kissilenko did an internship in Internal Medicine at Beth Israel Medical Center in Manhattan, New York. He
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| completed his residency at The New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Medical Center, Westchester Division. Additionally, Dr. Kissilenko trained as a fellow in Geriatric Psychiatry at The Cornell University Medical College, New York. Currently, Dr. Kissilenko is Chief of Acute Care and Geriatric Services at Silver Hill Hospital and is an Instructor in Psychiatry, Clinical Affiliate, Department of Psychiatry, Cornell University Medical College - The New York Presbyterian Hospital. >TOP |
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| Dr. Rocco Marotta
Dr. Marotta is an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at New York Medical College. He graduated from Cornell University Medical College |
| and completed his residency at New York Hospital, Payne Whitney Clinic. He also has a doctorate in Bio and Neuropsychology and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in Biological Psychiatry at the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Marotta's previous experience includes Chief of the Medical Psychiatric Unit at Westchester Medical Center, Director of Inpatient Psychiatric Services at Danbury Hospital and the Director of the Inpatient Psychiatric Service at St. Luke's/Roosevelt Hospital Center in New York City. He is an active member of several professional associations, including the American Psychiatric Association, the American Psychological Association and the International Neuropsychological Society. >TOP |
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| Dr. Ellyn Shander
Dr. Ellyn Shander graduated from Albert Einstein College of Medicine and received her psychiatric residency training at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. Since 1984, she has been an attending psychiatrist at Silver |
Hill Hospital and served as Medical Director of the Eating Disorder and Trauma Dissociation Treatment Programs.
She founded "Healing Seminars", an organization dedicated to teaching mind body connections to help heal physical and psychiatric problems and has lectured on the treatment of Dissociation and Trauma in France, Italy and the US.
Dr. Shander is committed to helping people in distressed communities and was the recipient of the 2007 Bruno Lima Award of the American Psychiatric Association in 2007. This award was for Dr. Shander's work with victims in Sri Lanka after the Tsunami and survivors of Hurricane Katrina.
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