Psychiatry near Valhalla, NY

Biography: Dr. DellaCava received her undergraduate degree from Wesleyan University and her medical degree from Jefferson Medical College. She completed internship and residency at Montefiore Medical Center, where she served as Outpatient Chief in her final year, and completed an administrative fellowship as Senior Chief Resident. She subsequently completed a fellowship in geriatric psychiatry at New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medicine. Dr. DellaCava has pursued academic research to improve communication in medical students and to decrease loneliness in older adults. The interventions she has developed build skills derived from improvisational theater. She has implemented a program using these skills in a medical education setting, and she has completed a pilot project looking at the feasibility and acceptability of this intervention in older adults. She has presented at national conferences regarding these topics.Dr. DellaCava's professional interests include medical student and resident education, geriatric psychiatry, loneliness and social isolation in adults, and psychotherapy.

Biography: Dr. Adriana Rego is a board-certified child & adolescent and adult psychiatrist as well as a child, adolescent and adult psychoanalyst. She serves as the Medical Director of the Columbia University Clinic for Anxiety and Related Disorders-Westchester Anxiety Day Program. She is an assistant professor of psychiatry in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center and adjunct assistant professor at NYU Child Study Center. She is a staff psychiatrist at the New York Presbyterian School Based Health Center. On the undergraduate level, Dr. Rego lectures about gender identity development and sexuality in children and adolescents. Her clinical areas of special interest include anxiety, mood disorders and PTSD.