Forsythia Behavioral Health Services

I am a Board Certified General Psychiatrist with experience caring for patients in multiple psychiatric settings. I currently serve as an Inpatient Staff Psychiatrist at McLean Hospital, in Belmont, MA, and have expertise in stabilizing patients suffering from acute and/or chronic psychiatric symptoms with multiple modalities, including psychotropic medications, psychotherapy, and electroconvulsive therapy. I have extensive experience in emergency psychiatry, inpatient and outpatient psychiatry, and urgent care psychiatry, and is an expert in psychiatric assessment, diagnosis, stabilization, and short and long-term treatment.  

 

Originally from Southeastern Massachusetts, I earned my medical degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, NY, in 2011. I trained at the Psychiatry Residency Program at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City from 2011-2014 and served as Chief Resident for the Program from 2014-2015. While at Sinai, I trained extensively in psychopharmacology (both inpatient and outpatient) and psychotherapy (psychodynamic, cognitive behavioral, and transference focused psychotherapy) and simultaneously completed an MBA in Healthcare Administration at Baruch College from 2013-2016.  

 

After residency, I had the privilege to work with veterans at the Bronx VA where I served as the first Medical Director of the Rapid Access Clinic, a psychiatric outpatient walk-in clinic that specializes in rapid assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of veterans with urgent psychiatric needs. Next, I took a position as an Attending Psychiatrist in Psychiatric Emergency Services and the Consult Liaison Service at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital in San Francisco, CA, where he continued to gain expertise stabilizing patients in acute psychiatric crises and treating medically and psychiatrically ill patients on the inpatient medical units. After CA, I decided to return to my native New England where he was once again granted the opportunity to work with veterans at the Providence VA as an Attending Psychiatrist on the Consult Liaison Psychiatric Service, working with patients suffering from both medical and psychiatric illness on the inpatient medical units. Prior to my position at McLean, I was an inpatient attending at Butler Hospital in Providence, RI. 

 

I have held academic appointments at The Mount Sinai School of Medicine, The New York University School of Medicine, The University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, and The Johnson and Wales University Center for Physician Assistant Studies. I currently hold an appointment as an Instructor in the Department of Psychiatry of Harvard Medical School. 

 

I am committed to developing innovative models for improving access to psychiatric care for those in need, and the potential for digital connectivity and analysis to revolutionize screening, assessment, crisis intervention, referral, and short and long-term treatment. I feel that new systems of care should be designed to avoid psychiatric hospitalization, psychiatric emergency room visits, and incarceration, and instead provide relief to people in distress and help maintain stability in their lives.