I am a psychiatrist in Short Hills, New Jersey. I treat adults whose psychiatric care is complicated by the rest of their medicine: significant medical illness, a long medication list, an organ that no longer clears drugs the way it used to, or a diagnosis that has never quite been settled.
Training
I am board certified in psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. I completed residency at Cooper University Hospital in Camden, New Jersey, and fellowship training in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry at Yale New Haven Hospital.
Some distinctions include:
- Chief Resident, 2024–2025
- Chairman's Award, Department of Psychiatry, 2024–2025
- Excellence in Scholarly Activity Award, Psychiatry Residency Program, 2024–2025
- Clinical Instructor, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, 2024–2025
- Resident Teacher of the Year, 2022–2023
- Front-page special report in Psychiatric News, June 2026, on managing bipolar disorder in high-risk populations
Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry is the subspecialty practised at the border between psychiatry and the rest of medicine. The fellowship year is spent on medical, surgical, transplant and intensive care services: delirium, catatonia, capacity assessment, psychiatric presentations of neurological and endocrine disease, medication management in organ failure, and the cardiac and metabolic consequences of psychiatric treatment. Most psychiatrists in outpatient practice have not done it. It is the reason this practice exists.
I hold a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine from the New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine and a Master of Public Health in health policy and management from Boston University.
Before medicine
I came to psychiatry after several years on the other side of healthcare. I was a biostatistician and quality-improvement analyst at Boston Medical Center and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, chief of staff to a regional vice president at a health insurer responsible for a group of accountable care organizations, and director of business intelligence for a multi-state network of psychiatric crisis centers.
That work left me with two convictions that shape how this practice runs. The first is that most of what goes wrong in medicine goes wrong in the handoffs: the record nobody read, the specialist nobody called, the medication nobody reconciled. The second is that a patient's time is worth protecting, which is why appointments here are long, records are read before the visit, and fees are stated in writing before anything is scheduled.
How I practise
Every patient of this practice is my personal responsibility; there is no delegation to medical students, residents, physician assistants or nurse practitioners. I read the records, I take the history, and I write the plan. With your consent I speak to your other physicians, because psychiatric treatment carried out in isolation from the rest of a patient's medicine is the problem I trained to avoid.
I see patients by video throughout New Jersey, New York and Connecticut, and in person in Short Hills.