DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRY
FLETCHER ALLEN HEALTH CARE /
UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE

FACULTY LISTING 2008/2009

(Rev. 09/05/2008)

FULL-TIME FACULTY

Thomas M. Achenbach, Ph.D.  Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology.  Research Interests: Developmental psychopathology; multicultural research; assessment of psychopathology and social competence in children, youths, and adults; taxonomy and epidemiology of psychopathology; evaluation of treatment outcomes; relations between cognition and psychopathology.

Robert Althoff, M.D., Ph.D.  Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics; Outpatient Child Psychiatry; Clinical Interests: Family-based assessment and treatment of child and adolescent psychopathology; Research Interests: Twin, family, molecular genetic, and epigenetic studies of developmental psychopathology; applications of latent variable modeling to child psychiatry; attention and mood regulation; pediatric bipolar disorder; suicide prevention; Teaching Interests:  Mentoring in medical student education, psychopharmacology.

Jaskanwar Batra, M.D.  Assistant Professor of Psychiatry; Attending, Vermont State Hospital.  Clinical Interests:  Pathophysiology of psychiatric illness; mood and anxiety disorders; neuroendocrinology; schizophrenia. Teaching Interests: Medical student education using technology to teach better; philosophy of psychiatry.

Richard A. Bernstein, M.D.  Associate Professor of Psychiatry; Director, Residency Program. Attending, Inpatient Service.  Clinical Interests: Adult psychiatry. Research Interests: Psychiatric education.  Educational Interests: Resident and medical student training.

Deborah Naomi Black, M.D.  Assistant Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry.  Clinical Interests:  Neuropsychiatric services within the Division of Public Psychiatry at Vermont State Hospital.  Teaching interests:  Coordination Vermont State Hospital Public Psychiatry Seminars; Supervisor of resident behavioral neurology/neuropsychiatry rotation at Vermont State Hospital.  Research interests:  Mechanisms of cognitive and behavioral self-regulation; conversion disorder.

Isabelle Desjardins, M.D.  Associate Professor of Psychiatry; Medical Director, Inpatient Psychiatry Services; Medical Director, Seneca Partial Hospitalization Program, Intensive Outpatient Program and Mood and Anxiety Disorders Clinic. Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in General Psychiatry and Geriatric Psychiatry.  Clinical Interests: Geriatric Psychiatry, Psychopharmacology, Inpatient Psychiatry. Research Interests: Quality Outcomes in the delivery of Inpatient Psychiatry Services. Other Interests: Application of psychiatric principles to the management of health care systems.

Julie Dumas, Ph.D.  Research Assistant Professor of Psychiatry.  Research Interests: Memory and aging, hormones and cognition, use of pharmacological models and functional neuroimaging to study age-related changes in cognition in adults.

A. Evan Eyler, M.D., MPH  Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Psychiatry; Attending, Psychiatric Consultation Service; Associate Director, Family Medicine Residency Program; Director of Behavioral Sciences, Department of Family Medicine.  Clinical Interests:  Adult and adolescent psychiatry; medical human sexuality, family medicine.  Research Interests: Healthcare access and outcomes; transgender medicine; medical education.  Educational Interests:  Resident and medical student training in family medicine and psychiatry.

Brian S. Flynn, Sc.D. Professor of Psychiatry (secondary) and Family Practice; Director of the Office of Health Promotion Research; Program Leader for Cancer Prevention and Control, Vermont Cancer Center. Research Interests:  Prevention of substance use among young people; cigarette smoking cessation; medical screening; public health program evaluation.

Allison Y. Hall, M.D.  Assistant Professor of Psychiatry. Clinical Interests: Adolescent and child psychiatric assessment and outpatient treatment, pediatric psychopharmacology. Teaching Interests: Community psychiatry, international psychiatry.

Sarah Heil, Ph.D.  Research Assistant Professor of Psychiatry.  Research Interests:  Behavioral treatments of cocaine dependence; behavioral and pharmacological approaches to the treatment of substance use/abuse in pregnant and recently postpartum women, behavioral pharmacology.

John E. Helzer, M.D.  Professor of Psychiatry; Director Health Behavior Research Center.  Clinical Interests: Substance use disorders, Electroconvulsive therapy.  Research Interests: Research in primary care settings, use of automated and web-based tools for care delivery, dimensional diagnostic classification, psychiatric taxonomy and DSM-V, cross-national psychiatric epidemiology.

Steven T. Higgins, Ph.D. Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology; Vice Chair of the Department of Psychiatry, Director of the Center on Substance Abuse Research and Treatment in the Department of Psychiatry. Clinical Interests:  Drug abuse, cocaine dependence, behavior therapy/applied behavior analysis.  Research Interests:  Treatment of cocaine dependence, treatment of cigarette smoking during pregnancy, behavioral pharmacology.

Mark Hoskin, M.D.  Associate Professor of Psychiatry; Medical Director of Crisis Services of Chittenden County. Clinical Interests: Emergency Psychiatry, psychiatric aspects of disaster, community psychiatry, medical education, interfaces between psychiatry and primary care.

James J. Hudziak, M.D. Professor in Psychiatry, Medicine and Pediatrics; Director Child Psychiatry and Behavioral Genetics. Dr. Hudziak also holds a Professorship of Biological Psychology at the Vrije University in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Clinical Interest: Diagnosis and treatment of child psychiatric disorders. Research Interests: Psychiatric genetics of child psychiatric disorders, application of family study, twin study, and molecular genetic techniques to the study of attention deficit disorder, anxiety and affective disorders, autism, and conduct disorder.

John R. Hughes, M.D.  Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology; Co-director, Human Behavioral Pharmacology Laboratory.  Research Interests: Nicotine dependence; human behavioral pharmacology of drug abuse; alcohol and drug abuse.

Masha Ivanova, Ph.D.  Research Assistant Professor.  Clinical Interests: Application of empirically-based psychotherapeutic approaches.  Research Interests: Understanding environmental factors, including cultural and family influences, as risk and protective factors of child psychopathology.     

James L. Jacobson, M.D.  Associate Professor of Psychiatry; Director, Outpatient Department and Psychopharmacology Clinic; Chair, Quality Assurance Committee.  Clinical Interests: Psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, psychopharmacology, integrating psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy, consultation.  Teaching Interests: Psychotherapy training, supervision,  psychopharmacology.

John G. Koutras, M.D.  Assistant Professor of Psychiatry; Outpatient Child Psychiatry.  Clinical Interests:  Pediatric psychopharmacology, adult psychopharmacology, pediatric consultation liaison, primary care psychiatry.  Teaching Interests:  child psychiatry coordinated treatment, primary care consultation, adult and child psychopharmacology, adolescent substance abuse, adult and child emergency psychiatry, child development.

Charlotte O. Ladd, M.D., Ph.D.  Assistant Professor of Psychiatry; Mood and Anxiety Disorders Clinic; Seneca Center.  Clinical Interests:  Adult mood and anxiety disorders; women’s mental health.  Research Interests:  Delivery of evidence based psychiatric services and early intervention strategies.

Cynthia LaRiviere, Ph.D.  Assistant Professor of Psychiatry.  Clinical Interests: Children, adolescents, and families.  Individual and family therapies, psychoeducational evaluations, school consultation, parent training, and behavioral interventions, developmental issues, learning disabilities, visual processing disorders, mood and anxiety disorders, grief and loss, attention problems, and behavioral disorders.

Judith Lewis, M.D.  Assistant Professor of Psychiatry; Attending, Psychiatric Inpatient Service; Co-Director of Medical Student Education in Psychiatry; Graduate, Columbia Psychoanalytic Center, NY, NY.  Clinical Interests: Inpatient and outpatient psychiatry, psychoanalytic psychotherapy.  Teaching Interests:  Adding psychoanalytic perspectives to the psychiatric interview, formulation and brief treatment of hospitalized patients, personality disorders, and the relationship of trauma to adult psychopathology.

Stephanie McConaughy, M.Ed.,Ph.D. Research Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology. Clinical Interests:  Child and adolescent disorders, child clinical interviews, psycho-educational assessment, and school consultation. Research Interests: Standardized assessment of children’s behavioral/ emotional problems, standardized clinical interviews for children, longitudinal studies of child and adolescent disorders.

Magdalena R. Naylor, M.D., Ph.D. Professor of Psychiatry; Director, MindBody Medicine Clinic; Associate Director, Clinical Neuroscience Research Unit.  Clinical Interests: integrating individual and group psychotherapy with pharmacotherapy for treatment of chronic pain, mood disorders, and PTSD.  Research Interests: cognitive-behavioral approaches to the treatment of chronic pain and substance abuse; cognitive changes associated with menopause; use of functional neuroimaging to study the effects of CBT on the neural correlates of chronic pain. Co-author of the book, The Search for Meaning.

Paul Newhouse, M.D.  Professor of Psychiatry; Director, Geriatric Psychiatry Service; Director, Clinical Neuroscience Research Unit and Functional Brain Imaging Program; Research Director, Memory Disorder Center of Vermont.  Clinical Interests:  Geriatrics and Alzheimer's disease, management of behavioral complications of neuropsychiatric disease.  Research Interests: Neuropharmacology of cognitive dysfunction secondary to aging and dementia, development of novel nicotinic cholinergic treatments for cognitive impairment; cognitive changes associated with menopause and hormone replacement; functional neuroanatomy of emotional and cognitive changes associated with disease and aging utilizing functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).

Robert Pierattini, M.D.  Professor and Chair, Department of Psychiatry, Clinical Leader, FAHC Psychiatry Service.  Clinical Interests: Mood and anxiety disorders, adult psychopharmacology, dynamic psychotherapy, clinical delivery system design.  Research Interests: Pharmacotherapy of mood and anxiety disorders, utilization of mental health services, issues in managed behavioral health care.

Alexandra Potter, Ph.D.  Research Assistant Professor of Psychiatry.  Clinical Interests:  Child psychopathology, therapies for children with neurodevelopmental disabilities.  Research Interests:  The neurobiology of cognitive dysfunctions associated with neurodevelopmental disabilities.

Terry Rabinowitz, M.D. Professor of Psychiatry and Family Practice; Director of Psychiatric Consultation and Telemedicine Services.  Research Interests: Psychostimulant use in the medically ill, side effects of psychotropic medications, augmentation strategies for psychotropic medications, psychiatric assessment, telepsychiatry.  Clinical Interests: Forensic psychiatry, ethics, terminal care issues, rehabilitation psychiatry, telepsychiatry.

David Rettew, M.D.  Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics; Director of Child and Adolescent Psychaitry Residency Program. Clinical Interests: Outpatient child and adolescent psychaitry, family based approaches, anxiety disorders, personality disorders. Research Interests: Temperament and personality development, genetics, developmental psychopathology.

Gail L. Rose, Ph.D.  Research Assistant Professor of Psychiatry; Assistant Professor of Education; Project Director, Health Behavior Research Center.  Research Interests: Health habit change, alcoholism prevention and treatment, technological applications in health care, academic mentoring and medical education, professional development.

Alan S. Rubin, M.D.  Research Associate Professor of Medicine (Primary); Medical Consultant for Inpatient Psychiatry units; Course Director for Communication Skills at the College of Medicine. Clinical Interests:  Internist/Psychiatrist collaboration, doctor/patient communication.

Stacey C. Signon, Ph.D.  Research Associate Professor of Psychiatry; Director of The Chittenden Center (Vermont’s only methadone clinic); Adjunct Associate Professor, Dartmouth Medical School. Clinical and Research Interests: Behavioral and pharmacological treatment of opioid dependence, novel formulations of pharmacotherapies for opioid dependence, smoking cessation among opioid-maintained patients using a behavioral and pharmacological approach, laboratory models for understanding the interactions between stimulant medications (e.g., nicotine, cocaine, d-amphetamine and methylphenidate), behavioral treatments of substance abuse among individuals with serious mental illness.

Thomas Simpatico, M.D.  Professor of Psychiatry; Director of Public Psychiatry; Medical Director, the Vermont State Hospital.  Clinical, Academic and Research Interests:  Serious and persistent mental illness, public policy, systems of care, information systems, medicine and law.

Cliff Singer, M.D.  Associate Professor of Psychiatry; Co-Medical Director of Geriatric Psychiatry Service, Director of Geriatric Psychiatry Clinic, Director of Insomnia and Chronobiology Clinic, Fletcher Allen Health Care; Principal Investigator in Geriatric Sleep Research, Clinical Neuroscience Research Unit. Clinical Interests: Dementia, geriatric psychiatry, sleep and chronobiology disorders. Research interests: Sleep and aging.

Susan Sobel, M.S.W.  Associate Professor of Psychiatry; Director of Psychotherapy Training.  Models: Psychodynamic/Marriage and Family Therapy.  Clinical Interests: Individuals, couples and families dealing with chronic illness, inherited illness and/or presymptomatic testing for them, life transitions, divorce, remarriage, discovery through predictive testing of inherited disease, women's issues – sexual and physical abuse, infertility. Research Interests: Study of impact of predictive testing of an asymptomatic at-risk person for inherited disease on the family as a system. Teaching Interests: Two bridge courses to medical students in new curriculum called “Consequences of predictive testing for hereditary illness on families: ethical dilemmas” and “Life cycle issues for middle age adults.”

Arthur Warwick, M.D.  Associate Professor of Psychiatry; Attending, Inpatient Psychiatry unit. Clinical Interests: Psychotherapy (psychodynamic, cognitive, motivational interviewint, mindfulness based), psychopharmacology and dissociation in adult, geriatric and substance abuse patients. Teaching Interests: "doctoring", general psychiatry, dynamic understanding, psychopharmacology, mechanisms of change and aiming for therapeutic interactions.

G. Scott Waterman, M.D.  Professor of Psychiatry; Associate Dean for Student Affairs.  Clinical Interests: Mood, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive, and psychotic disorders; pediatric and adult psychopharmacology.  Scholarly Interests: Neurobiology of mood and anxiety disorders; psychiatric nosology; philosophy of mind in medical education, discourse, and practice.

PART-TIME FACULTY

M. Brooke Barss, M.D.  Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry.  Clinical Interests:  Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, psychiatric problems associated with female reproductive function, psychopharmacology, substance use disorders.

Douglas H. Betts, M.D. Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, McGill University; Member of Canadian and International Psychoanalytic Associations; certified group therapy.  Clinical Interests:  Adult and child psychotherapy; group therapy, practical and theoretical integration of the similarities of techniques in individual, family and group psychotherapy, teaching and supervision of child psychotherapy, family therapy and group therapy.

David L. Boedy, L.I.C.S.W. Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry; Lecturer and Field Placement Supervision.  Clinical Interests:  Psychotherapy for individuals and couples, trauma treatment

Margaret Bolton, M.D. Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Staff Psychiatrist UVM Center for Health and Wellbeing, Student Health Center,  Subspecialty in Forensic Psychiatry.  Clinical Interests: Adolescent Psychiatry, substance abuse, eating disorders.

Leslie M. Conroy, M.D.  Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Clinical Interests: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, developmental disorders, psychopharmacology, consultation to community based programs.

Paul G. Cotton, M.D., Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry. Student Medical Clinic UVM Center for Health and Wellbeing. Subspecialist in Forensic Psychiatry. Clinical Interests: Forensic Psychiatry, developmental disabilities, student mental health.

Ursel Danielson, M.D.  Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry.  Clinical Interests: Child psychiatry, especially ADHD; managed care; depression and anxiety in children and adolescents.

Susan Leigh Deppe, M.D. Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry; Faculty member at The Silvan S. Tomkins Institute in Philadelphia, PA.  Clinical Interests:  Psychotherapies; spiritual development; anxiety and mood disorders; dissociation; affect and script theory; restorative justice; public, professional, and clergy education; advocacy.   Research Interests:  Psychopharmacology of mood disorders; religion and psychiatry; affect and script theory in neuroscience.

Robert Duncan, M.D.  Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Vermont State Hospital.  Clinical Interests:  Chronic mental illness, public mental health, trauma.

Robert Emmon, M.D.  Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry. Clinical Interests: Psychoanalytic psychotherapy, couples and family therapy, psychotherapy supervision.  Research Interests:  Ethics and Managed Care.

Brian Erickson, M.D.  Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry; Director of ECT Service; On staff with Department of Anesthesia Pain Medicine Service; Psychiatry Consultation Service; Psychotherapy Supervisor.  Clinical Interests:  Integrating complimentary and alternative therapies.

David Fassler, M.D.  Clinical Professor of Psychiatry.  Clinical Interests: Child and adolescent psychiatry, preventive mental health, forensic consultation, health care delivery, child and adolescent depression, administration and program development.  Research Interests: Clinical outcome studies in child psychiatric treatment.

Bertold Francke, M.D.  Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Psychoanalytic Training-William Alanson White Institute, N.Y.  Clinical Interests: Inpatient psychiatry, public psychiatry, forensic psychiatry, personality disorders, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy supervision.

Judith Gerber, Ph.D. Clinical Associate Professor of OB/GYN and Psychiatry (Secondary). Clinical interests: Women’s health psychology with emphasis on assisted reproduction. Research interests: Infertility, menopause and sexuality.

Cathleen J. Gleeson, Ph.D.  Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Family Practice.  Clinical Interests: Depression, women’s issues, trauma, behavioral medicine, adjustment disorders.

Gale H. Golden, L.I.C.S.W., BCD. Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry. Private Practice; Lecturer in sexuality; Consultant in sexuality. Clinical Interests: Psychodynamic psycotherapy and cognitive-behavioral therapy for individuals with sexual and related issues, dysfunction, compelling sexual behaviors, forensic work, couples and women's issues.  Educational Interests: Resident and medical student training in sexuality.

Jennifer Gordon, M.S.W.  Clinical Instructor of Professor of Psychiatry; Private Practice: Vermont Center for Cognitive Behavior Therapy. Clinical Interests: Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, integration of CBT and Mindfulness-Based approaches, including Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction groups. Specialize in treatment of mood, anxiety and eating disorders.

Stuart Graves, M.D.  Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry.  Clinical Interests:  Trauma, major mental illnesses, community mental health, medical information systems.

Jane Grayson, Ph.D.  Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry.  Clinical Interests: Group therapy, relationship problems, women's concerns, depression, anxiety.

Jeanne Greenblatt, M.D., MPH  Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics;  Clinical and Research Interests: Public Health Psychiatry, pediatric psychopharmacology, consultation to pediatric primary care, psychiatric co-morbidities in children with developmental disorders and deafness.

Edward Handy, L.C.M.H.C. Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry.  Clinical Interests: Short-term psychotherapy, managed care mental health systems.

Anne Jerman, RN, C.S., M.S.  Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry.  Clinical Interests: Chronic illness and chronic pain; depression; anxiety; dialectical behavior therapy; cognitive behavioral therapy.

Janet R. Kahn, Ph.D.  Research Assistant Professor of Psychiatry; Faculty Preceptor, Fellowship in Complementary and Alternative and General Medicine (Harvard Medical School).    Clinical Interests: use of body-based therapies for treatment of addiction, chronic pain syndromes, and trauma recover.  Research Interests:  Integrative health care delivery models; research methods for investigation of body-based and “energetic” therapies; effects of touch on the dying process for both patient and caregiver.

Richard E. Kast, M.D.  Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry.  Clinical Interests: General adult psychiatry.  Research Interests: Neurochemistry of tumor necrosis factor – alpha and inflammatory mediators.  Educational interests: Effects of inflammatory mediators on brain function, neuroanatomic and neurochemical correlates to the psychiatric syndromes.

Gary A. Keller, M.D.  Research Assistant Professor of Psychiatry; Clinical Interests: Mental health services in managed care, administrative psychiatry, treatment of depression, and psychotherapy.  Research Interests: Primary and secondary prevention of major depression.

Suzanne Kennedy, M.D., FRCPC  Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry.  Clinical Interests: Consultation/liaison psychiatry, inpatient psychiatry, adolescent and adult psychiatry.  Research interests: First episode psychosis and partial complex seizures.  Educational interests: Resident and medical student training and evaluation.

John F. King, M.D.  Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry.  Clinical Interests: Psychopharmacology's treatment of depression and anxiety, forensic psychiatry, community psychiatry.

Joe Lasek, M.D.  Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry; Associate Medical Director, HowardCenter. Clinical Interests:  Community psychiatry, psychiatric consultation to primary care providers, psychiatric and substance abuse co-occurring disorders, evidence-based psychopharmacology/psychotherapy/lifestyle interventions, mindfulness based & cognitive behavioral therapies, adult ADHD, sleep disorders. Teaching interests:  resident and medical student teaching, competency based assessment.

Debra Lopez, M.D.  Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry.  Clinical Interests: Adult general psychiatry, psychodynamic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, developmental trauma and dissociative disorders.

John Malloy, M.D.  Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry.  Clinical Interests: Community mental health, forensic psychiatry, inpatient psychiatry, general adult psychiatry.

Todd Mandell, M.D.  Assistant Professor of Psychiatry; Medical Director, Vermont Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Alcohol and Drug Programs;  Clinical Interests:  Psychiatric and Substance Abuse Co-Occurring Disorders,medication assisted treatment for opioid dependence.

Marlene Maron, Ph.D. Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Pediatrics and Psychology; Chief Psychologist & Manager, Psychological Services, FAHC; Director, Pediatric Psychology Service. Clinical Interests:  Program development, psychotherapy with children and adults, clinical supervision, pediatric psychology.

William McMains, M.D. Clinical Professor in Psychiatry, Medical Director, Department of Mental Health.; Clinical Professor, Dartmouth.  Clinical Interests: Child and adolescent psychiatry, consultation to adolescent residential facilities, administrative psychiatry.  Research Interests: Systems of care in the public sector.

Joseph Messina, M.D.  Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry; Medical director of Day One Chemical Dependency Program.  Clinical Interests: Co-occurring Disorders, Mood and Anxiety Disorders, Psychopharmacology, Student Health, Geriatric Psychiatry

Gregory A. Miller, M.D.  Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry;  Research Interests: History of psychiatry, HIV-AIDS, multiple family treatments, post-traumatic stress disorder and substance abuse.  Clinical Interests:  Administrative psychiatry; adult inpatient psychiatry; psychopharmacology; gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, transgender issues; family and couples therapy; short-term crisis intervention; long-term psychodynamic psychiatry. 

Richard Munson, M.D.  Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry; Attending, Vermont State Hospital.  Clinical Interests: Severe persistent mental illness, public psychiatry. Research Interests: Health care information systems.

Corinne Pelletier, M.D. Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry.  Clinical Interests: Inpatient psychiatry, forensic psychiatry, community/rural psychiatry, psychodynamic psychotherapy.

Janis M. Peyser, Ph.D.  Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology, Director of Psychological Services.  Clinical Interests: Neuropsychology, psychological aspects of neurological disease. 

Elena Ramirez, Ph.D.  Clinical Instructor of Psychiatry; Licensed Psychologist-Doctorate; Co-founder of The Vermont Center for Cognitive Behavior Therapy; Director of The Weight Control Program.  Clinical Interests:  cognitive behavioral treatments for eating disorders and obesity, body image and self esteem, and anxiety and phobia treatment (offers group and individual therapy); directs a multidisciplinary weight and lifestyle management program.  Research Interests: Long term weight maintenance.

Beth Robbins, Psy.D.  Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry; Clinical Director Seneca Center & Mood and Anxiety Disorders Clinic. Clinical Interests: CBT & DBT working with adults in acute exacerbation of symptoms associated with Axis I & II diagnoses.  Treatment approach to mood and anxiety disorders at all levels of severity; Group work & Supervision.  Teaching Interests: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.  Research interests: establishing outcomes and relapse prevention.

Richard Rubin, M.D., DFAPA, FAACAP. Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry; Adjunct Associate Professor, Dartmouth Medical College. Clinical Interests: Child, Adolescent, and Adult ADHD. Teaching Interests: ADHD Diagnosis and Treatment, Clinical Trials Procedures and Ethics. Research Interests: ADHD and Comorbiditiese Medicine Development and Practice Applications.

Mark S. Schultz, M.D.  Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry; Clinical Interests:  Individual psychotherapy, psychopharmacology, group process.

Catherine C. Schuman, Ph.D.  Clinical Associate Professor of Neurology (Primary) and Psychiatry (Secondary); Clinical Interests: Behavioral medicine, cognitive-behavioral therapy, and psychological aspects of medical illness, sleep, and pain.  Research Interests: Psychosocial factors that effect sleep, pain, and medical illness.

John Searles, Ph.D.  Research Assistant Professor of Psychiatry. Clinical Interests: Alcoholism treatment effectiveness, patient treatment matching.  Research Interests: Environmental influences on the etiology of alcoholism, behavior genetics issues in the development of alcoholism, individual differences in the development, course, and treatment of alcoholism.

Elizabeth Seward, M.S., M.D., Psychoanalyst.  Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine; Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry (secondary); Certificate in Psychoanalysis, National Institute for the Psychotherapies, NY, NY.  Clinical Interests: Analytically-informed psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, dynamics of psychosomatic illness, the medical-psychiatric interface, personality disorders, trauma.

Sudhir Shantinath, L.I.C.S.W. Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry; FAHC Seneca Center (partial hospitalization program).  Clinical Interests:  CBT and DBT, Mindfulness practice.  Educational Interests:  Resident and medical student training in DBT and CBT.

Andrew Siegel, M.D.  Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry; Physicians for Social Responsibility; American Psychiatric Association (V.P.A.)  Clinical Interests: Community mental health, graduate medical education, psychoanalytically-oriented psychotherapy, group process and short-term psychotherapy, especially as an educational vehicle; health care reform.

Abhay Singh, M.B.,B.S.  Clinical Instructor of Psychiatry.  Clinical Interests: Adult and geriatric psychopharmacology, schizophrenia, mood disorders, ECT, analytic psychotherapy.  Research Interests:  Pharmacotherapy of treatment resistant schizophrenia, cognitive dysfunction in schizophrenia, metabolic and neuroendocrine disturbances associated with psychotropic medications, nicotinic system involvement in neuropsychiatric disorders, neurobiology and management of behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia, ECT for depression in borderline personality disorder.

Steven Sobel, M.D., Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry; Medical Director of Northwestern Counseling and Support Services.  Clinical Interests: Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders; mood disorders; psychopharmacology, geriatric psychiatry; community mental health. 

Sondra Solomon, Ph.D.  Associate Professor of Psychology, Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry.  Research Interests: Stigma, Resilience, Coping with Chronic Illness, HIV/AIDS, Clinical Training, and Curriculum Transformation. Clinical Interests: Adjustment disorders, life transitions, mood disorders, people of color, under-represented populations, acute/chronic illness.

Sandra Steingard, M.D.  Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Medical Director, HowardCenter.  Clinical Interests: Schizophrenia and other severe mental disorders. Research Interests: Treatment of acute and chronic psychosis, treatment of substance abuse and schizophrenia.

James Tallmadge, Ph.D.  Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology; Licensed Psychologist, Doctorate; Licensed School Psychologist.  Clinical Interests: Attention deficit disorders, emotional and behavioral disability, behavior therapy, school consultation.

Peter M. Thomashow, M.D.  Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry; Medical Director of the Department of Psychiatry for Central Vermont Hospital.  Clinical Interests: Chronic pain, interface between psychiatry and primary care, consultation psychiatry.

Michael Upton, M.D.  Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Dartmouth Medical School.  Clinical Interests: Adult and adolescent psychopharmacology, college mental health, short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy, administrative psychiatry.

Brian B. Wilcox, L.C.M.H.C.  Clinical Instructor of Psychiatry.  Seneca Center (partial hospitalization program).

Mary Willmuth, Ph.D.  Clinical Associate Professor Psychiatry.  Clinical Interests:  Analytically oriented psychotherapy, eating disorders, head injury, physical rehabilitation, assessment and psychological testing.

Sally S. Young, Ph.D. Clinical Assistant Professor in Psychiatry.  Clinical Interests: Analytically oriented psychotherapy, child psychology, geropsychology and rehabilitation.

Polly Young-Eisendrath, Ph.D.  Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Clinical Associate Professor of Psychology; Consultant in Emotional Intelligence in Leadership Development, Norwich University;clinical-developmental psychologist; diplomate Jungian psychoanalyst; member, Jungian Psychoanalytic Association (NYC) and International Association for Analytical Psychology; published fourteen books, translated into twenty languages and many chapters and articles. Clinical Interests: Jungian analysis, psychoanalytic psychotherapy, couples therapy (Dialogue Therapy); Research Interests: Loevinger’s ego development; Mindfulness Training research in secular settings, resilience (general); women’s development in second half of life; emotional intelligence in leadership; and spiritual issues in psychotherapy.

M. Diane Zuniga, M.D.  Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry.  Medical Director of Child and Adolescent Inpatient Mental Health Unit at Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital in Plattsburgh, NY.  Clinical Interests:  Diagnosis and treatment of child psychiatric disorders and preventative child psychiatry.