Chronic Depression Dysthymia near Purchase, NY

Biography: Leah Susser, MD, is a Reproductive Psychiatrist and is Program Director for NYP/WCM Ambulatory Reproductive Psychiatry.She obtained her M.D. from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and she completed psychiatry residency training at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell. In residency, she specialized in women's mental health and in perinatal psychiatry through the Payne Whitney Women's Program.Since completing residency in 2016, she has dedicated her career to providing people with specialized reproductive mental health care and consultation. This includes people who are planning to get pregnant, pregnant, expecting a child, postpartum/new parents, who have experienced perinatal loss, who are experiencing infertility, who are in the menopausal transition, and who are experiencing mental health symptoms related to the menstrual cycle. She has published numerous articles and presents at national conferences on topics related to reproductive psychiatry. She provides specialized consultations to inpatient, outpatient, and partial hospital teams as well. She teaches trainees and other clinicians about this specialty field, and she is the director of the Journal Club for the Payne Whitney Women's Program and co-director of the WBHC Reproductive Psychiatry Psychology Postdoctoral Fellowship. She believes in understanding symptoms in the context of a person's life circumstances, and she understands the importance of collaboration with other clinicians. She is empathic and uses an evidence-based approach to treatment that includes non-pharmacologic wellness strategies, psychotherapy, and/or medications to alleviate psychiatric distress, when appropriate. She also offers one-time reproductive psychiatry consultations related to pregnancy/postpartum, the menstrual cycle, and the perimenopausal period.

Biography: Dr. Apfeldorf received his M.D. and his Ph.D. in Cell Biology from Yale University. He completed his psychiatry residency at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center and the New York State Psychiatric Institute. He completed his geropsychiatry fellowship at Cornell University Medical College and New York Hospital Cornell Medical Center Westchester Division. Dr. Apfeldorf is currently on faculty at Weill Cornell Medicine and he is an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry. Dr. Apfeldorf is the Unit Chief for the Geriatric Psychiatry Inpatient Service, Weill Cornell Institute of Geriatric Psychiatry. He maintains an outpatient and consulting practice in adult and geriatric psychiatry at New York Presbyterian Hospital/ Payne Whitney Westchester. Please call 914 997- 5809 for appointments and scheduling.

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Biography: Dr. Spaniardi received her medical degree from Temple University School of Medicine and completed a medical internship at SUNY Downstate Medical Center. She was a Phipps Resident in general psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Hospital and trained in child and adolescent psychiatry at the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital's combined program of Columbia and Cornell Universities. She has extensive experience working in both inpatient and outpatient psychiatry, including as an attending psychiatrist on the adolescent inpatient unit at NYP-Cornell Westchester and as an outpatient psychiatrist with the New York University Child Study Center. She enjoys teaching and supervising medical students, residents and fellows. Dr. Spaniardi regularly speaks at both national and international conferences and has been a contributor to several books on child psychiatry, including authoring the upcoming Springer Science title:Teens, Screens and Social Connection: An Evidence Based Guide to Key Problems and Solutions. Dr. Spaniardi is board certified in adult, child and adolescent psychiatry. She is available for diagnostic consultations, initial evaluations, medication management and psychotherapy to patients of all ages in her outpatient private practice. She sees patients in both the Westchester and Manhattan campuses. Virtual appointments and late hours are available. Dr. Spaniardi extends her expertise to pre-natal and postpartum mood disorders, including supporting challenges associated with infertility