My Background
CURRENT PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
Licensed Clinical Psychologist
Private Practice
Visiting Scholar / Clinical Supervisor
Teachers College, Columbia University
Adjunct Clinical Supervisor
Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, Yeshiva University
HONORS AND AWARDS
Honorarium for Invited Workshop: Treating Health Anxiety
Center for Anxiety, New York, NY
Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award
National Institute of Mental Health
Graduate School Excellence Fellowship
Rutgers University
Travel Award
Rutgers University
Founder’s Day Honors Scholar
New York University
Psi Chi: Psychology National Honors
New York University
AFFILIATIONS
American Psychological Association
Member
NYC Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Association
Member
Association for Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies
Member
Women’s Mental Health Consortium
Member
Psychology Today
Member
EDUCATION
Rutgers University
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Clinical Psychology
Rutgers University
Master of Science (M.S.), Clinical Psychology
New York University
Bachelor of Arts (BA) with Honors, Psychology, Fine Arts
PAST PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
Psychology Fellow
Weill Cornell Medical College
Cognitive Therapy Clinic, Department of Psychiatry
Psychology Intern
Department of Psychiatry, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Psychology Intern
Weill Cornell Medical College
Payne Whitney Clinic, Department of Psychiatry, New York
Presbyterian Hospital
Ruth L. Kirschstein Fellow
National Institutes of Health
Clinical Interviewer
AHRC
Psychotherapist
Institute for Behavior Therapy
Psychotherapist
Rutgers University
Rutgers Psychological Clinic, Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology
Psychotherapist
New York University
Palliative Care and Oncology Services, Bellevue Hospital Center
Clinical Interviewer and Psychotherapist
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital
Behavioral Healthcare Center, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
Volunteer
Morning Star Center, Vietnamese Relief Association for Handicapped Children, NGO
Hanoi, Vietnam
Clinical Interviewer
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital
Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine
Neuroimaging Research Coordinator
North Shore-LIJ Health System
Zucker Hillside Hospital, Glen Oaks, NY
PUBLICATIONS
Psychosocial factors in coronary disease.
In: Handbook of Health Psychology, Second Edition. Edited by Andrew S. Baum, Tracey A. Revenson, and Jerome E. Singer. Psychology Press: London, U.K.
December 14, 2011
Depressive symptoms, trait aggression, and cardiovascular reactivity to a laboratory stressor.
Annals of Behavioral Medicine
May 2010
A health psychology perspective of stress in schizophrenia. Reply to Scorza and colleagues (2009).
Psychiatry Research
January 2009
Cardiovascular disease.
In: Encyclopedia of the Life Course and Human Development, edited by Deborah Carr and colleagues. Gale Cengage: Farmington Hills, Michigan.
November 10, 2008
Gray matter structural alterations in obsessive-compulsive disorder: relationship to neuropsychological functions.
Psychiatry Research
November 30, 2008
Patterns of stress in schizophrenia.
Psychiatry Research
July 15, 2008
Clinical and neuropsychological correlates of white matter abnormalities in recent onset schizophrenia.
Neuropsychopharmacology
April 2008
DISC1 is associated with prefrontal cortical gray matter and positive symptoms in schizophrenia.
Biological Psychology
September 2008
Anterior cingulate grey-matter deficits and cannabis use in first-episode schizophrenia.
British Journal of Psychiatry
March 2007
Increased stress and smaller anterior hippocampal volume.
Neuroreport
November 27, 2006
VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE
Mental Health Volunteer
Morning Star Center, Vietnamese Relief Association for Handicapped Children, NGO