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Stuart Seidman, MDPrescriptions: contact office by E-Mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | Fax: 212 202 4187 |
Phone or SMS: 212 579-0339 | Private voicemail: (646) 389-3683 | Emergency: (917) 573-9600
Background:
Undergraduate Degree: Emory University, 1981-1985
Medical School: Emory University School of Medicine, 1985-1989
Internship: Department of Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 1989-1990
Residency: Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, 1993-1996
NIMH Research Fellowship: Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, 1996-1999
Board Certification: American Board of Neurology and Psychiatry
- Psychiatry 1997, re-certified 2008, 2018
- Geriatric Psychiatry 1998-2008
Private Practice: 1996-Present
Edward Nunes, MDPrescriptions: contact office by E-Mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | Fax: 212 202 4187 |
Phone or SMS: 212 579-0339 |
Emergency: (917) 415-3712 |
Background:
Dr. Edward Nunes, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, is an expert in psychiatric disorders. Following study at Dartmouth College (A.B. in Psychology and Chemistry) and University of Connecticut School of Medicine (M.D.), he completed his residency and a research fellowship in clinical psychopharmacology at the New York State Psychiatric Institute. He has authored over 100 book chapters and articles in peer-reviewed journals and currently serves as principal investigator and mentor/consultant on multiple NIH-funded studies that examine a variety of treatments (i.e., medication, behavioral, and psychotherapeutic approaches) for substance dependence and related psychiatric disorders. His ongoing studies examine treatment of cocaine dependence, heroin and other opioid dependence, and substance dependence co-occurring with psychiatric disorders, including depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. He is a Principal Investigator of the Greater New York Node of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) clinical Trials Network as well as other NIDA funded studies on behavioral and medication treatments for substance dependence and related psychiatric disorders. Types of treatment under study include medication treatments (naltrexone, buprenorphine, mirtazapine) as well as behavioral and psychotherapeutic approaches and computer-delivered treatments. Dr. Nunes also studies the challenges involved in implementing evidence-based treatments for substance use disorders in real-world community-based treatments settings. Dr. Nunes also serves on the American Board of Addiction Medicine, Co-Chair of the Columbia/ New York State Psychiatric Institute’s Institutional Review Board, and has been appointed to the National Advisory Council on Drug Abuse.
Gregory Pelton, MDPrescription refills: contact office by E-Mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | Fax: 212 202 4187 | Phone or SMS: 212 579-0339 | Private voicemail: (646) 774-8669 |
Emergency: (201) 521-9959
Gaurav Patel, MD, PhD
Prescription refills: contact office by E-Mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | Fax: 212 202 4187 | Phone or SMS: 212 579-0339 |
Emergency: (212) 543-6083
Background:
Gaurav Patel, MD/PhD is an Assistant Professor in Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia University and a Research Scientist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute. His research interest is in the neural systems underlying information processing and how they become dysfunctional in psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia. He uses a variety of neuroimaging techniques to characterize the level of functioning of these processing systems in individuals, and is investigating how to use this information to target neurostimulation treatments such as TMS and tDCS. Dr. Patel received a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award in 2005 from the NIH, a Leon Levy Neuroscience Fellowship in 2009,and a fellowship from the American Psychiatric Foundation in 2013 to study schizophrenia. He is a member of the Society for Neuroscience and the American Psychiatric Association. In addition to his research activities, Dr. Patel supervises residents in the psychiatric emergency room at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital at Columbia University Medical Center.
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West End Medical Associates
Welcome to our outpatient psychiatry practice, West End Medical Associates. We are research-clinician faculty at the Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons. All of the physicians specialize in psychiatry, are Board Certified by the American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology, and are licensed to practice medicine in the State of New York.
We strive for excellence in systematic evaluation; and in compassionate, professional, discreet, and evidence-based clinical care. If you have a suggestion or comment, please write it down and hand it to the receptionist or mail it to the office, att: Dr. Seidman.
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