JUDITH MARCUS, MD
President
2010-2012
Dr. Judith Marcus graduated from Cornell University and Downstate Medical Center. She completed her psychiatric residency at Albert Einstein Medical Center in the Bronx. After serving briefly as an attending at the day hospital at Jacobi Municipal Medical Center, she was appointed Assistant Director at the Montefiore Outpatient Clinic where she stayed for two years. Her responsibilities included teaching, supervision and administration. From 1989-94, Dr. Marcus was in private practice in Great Neck and trained as a psychoanalyst at The Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. While continuing in private practice, she has taught a course in Dynamic Psychotherapy and supervised residents at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset for the last 15 years. She recently joined the faculty at LIJ and supervises a resident there. Dr. Marcus has been a member of GLIPS for many years.
SASHI SHUKLA, MD
President-Elect
2010-2012
Dr. Shukla is a graduate of Delhi University, New Delhi, India. She completed her psychiatric residency training at New York Medical College. Currently she is an Assistant Clinical Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry, Behavioral Science SUNY, Stony Brook. An APA Fellow, and International Medical Graduate representative to the GLIPS Board, she maintains a private practice and is Attending Psychiatrist at John T. Mather Memorial Hospital and St. Charles Hospital in Port Jefferson, NY.
MEENA RAMANI, MD
Secretary/Treasurer
2010-2012
Dr. Ramani is a graduate of Madras Medical College in Madras, India. She completed her internship at Government General Hospital in Madras, India before immigrating to the United States in 1986. Dr. Ramani completed her Pediatric Residency at Nassau University Medical Center in East Meadow, her Adult Psychiatry Residency at Beth Israel Hospital in Manhattan and her Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, New York. Dr. Ramani currently serves as the Director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Nassau University Medical Center and has an active private practice. She is Board Certified in Pediatrics, Psychiatry, and Child and Adolsecent Psychiatry. She is a member of the American Psychiatric Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics. Dr. Ramani serves as the Mental Health Liasion for the Chapter 2 of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
JACQUELINE CAST
Executive Director
1976-Present
Ms. Cast served as Executive Director of the former Nassau Psychiatric Society and the Suffolk District Branch, APA before their consolidation to form the Greater Long Island Psychiatric Society. In addition to overseeing the general operation of the organization, Ms. Cast is the link between members, the public and the organization. She served as a Consultant to the American Psychiatric Association's National Membership Committee for ten years (1999-2009), and chaired the Ad-Hoc Workgroup on Centralized Membership Processing.
LOUIS NAJARIAN, MD
Councilor
2010-2016
Dr. Najarian completed his Residency in Psychiatry and Child Psychiatry at Downstate Medical Center-Kings County Hospital. His professional activities include private practice of adult, adolescent and child psychiatry. He is an Attending at North Shore University Hospital, teaches Child Psychotherapy to Child Psychiatry Fellows and is a consultant to the Port Washington Public School District. He has conducted clinical research and published findings on PTSD and has been invited by the APA and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry to present at annual meetings on the results of clinical research on children’s reaction to trauma of natural disaster. He is also a reviewer for the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Currently a member of the GLIPS Board of Directors, Dr. Najarian is the 1999 recipient of the APA’s Bruno Lima Award for excellence in disaster psychiatry. He was recently elected as a Fellow to the APA.
JANE V. PERR, MD
Councilor
2007-2013
Dr. Perr joined the Nassau Psychiatric Society in 1984. While a resident at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, Dr. Perr was chosen to be an APA Falk Fellow and was assigned to the APA's Committee on Medical Student Education. A Fellow of the APA, she has a private practice in Manhasset and is the Psychiatric Director of AHRC Nassau County Chapter which serves the developmentally disabled and the mentally retarded. She supervises residents at both Long Island Jewish Medical Center and North Shore University Hospital. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the NY Metro Chapter of the National Association for the Dually Diagnosed (NADD), an organization concerned with issues related to assisting developmentally disabled individuals with mental illness. She served on the Board of Directors of the Nassau Psychiatric Society from 1992-1994, as its Deputy Delegate from 1994-1996, as Delegate of the Greater Long Island Psychiatric Society from 1996-1998, and its Secretary-Treasurer from 1998-1999. She served as a member of the Committee on Nominations of the New York State Psychiatric Association from 1995-1998, and as a member of the APA's Membership Committee from 1996-1999.
RUTH WALDBAUM, MD
Councilor
2005-2011
Dr. Waldbaum is Board Certified in Adult Psychiatry and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. She is a Clinical Professor of both Pediatrics and Psychiatry at New York University Medical School and is an attending in Psychiatry and Pediatrics at North Shore LIJ University Hospital. Dr. Waldbaum is Past President of The Greater Long Island Psychiatric Society. She has served on the Board of Directors since 1998. She is a Distinguished Fellow of The American Psychiatric Association. She is in private practice of Adult, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and supervises residents. Prior to her career in Psychiatry she practiced Pediatrics with a special interest in Pediatric Endocrinology.
DEBORAH WEISBROT, MD
Representative
2007-2011
Dr. Weisbrot is the Director of the Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Outpatient Division and Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stony Brook. After attending medical school at the State University of New York at Buffalo, she went to the Yale School of Medicine where she completed her psychiatric residency and became an instructor in Psychiatry. Dr. Weisbrot subsequently completed a child and adolescent psychiatry Fellowship at the Payne Whitney Clinic at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. She joined the faculty at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where she was a supervising psychiatrist on intensive treatment and training units at the Bronx Psychiatric Center. She served as Associate Director of Residency Training for PGY-4 residents at the Albert Einstein Department of Psychiatry. Since 1986, she has had an active private practice, treating children, adolescents and adults.
VICTOR FORNARI, MD
Director
2005-2011
Dr. Fornari is the Director, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, in the Department of Psychiatry at North Shore University Hospital and Long Island Jewish Medical Center (including Schneider Children’s Hopsital and the Zucker Hillside Hospital). He is also Professor of Psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine. Dr. Fornari is a recognized expert in the treatment of eating disorders, and has collaborated on numerous published articles and textbooks chapters on the subject. Dr. Fornari is the Co-Editor of a new book entitled, Evidence Based Treatments for Eating Disorders: Children, Adolescents and Adults, published by Nova Science Press.
ELI KATUS, MD
Director
2009-2012
Dr. Katus was born and raised in Oslo, Norway. She completed her pre-clinical medical education at the University of Liege in Belgium and her clinical medical education at the University of Luebeck in Germany, from which she graduated in October, 1982. At Winthrop University Hospital, she completed her internship in pediatrics. Subsequently, at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, she completed her psychiatric residency and child and adolescent Fellowship. Since then she has practiced privately for general psychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry. In 1990 she received her Board Certification in Psychiatry and in 1991 her Board Certification in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Currently she is also a voluntary attending, supervising psychiatric residents at North Shore University Hospital.
FRANK DOWLING, MD
Director
2009-2011
Dr. Dowling has an outpatient private practice in Smithtown, NY, and is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at SUNYSB and is the Medical Advisor to POPPA (Police Organization Providing Peer Assistance), the confidential, non-departmental, voluntary assistance program for the NYPD. He also serves as Medical Director of PROS clinics for Clubhouse of Suffolk.
ALEXANDRA KLUFAS, MD
Director
2009-2011
Dr. Klufas is the Assistant Residency Director of the North Shore-LIJ Psychiatry Residency Training Program at The Zucker Hillside Hospital. Dr. Klufas is a diplomat of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, and has completed 2 years of psychoanalytic training at the NYU Psychoanalytic Institute. Currently in her role as the assistant residency director, she is involved with training program coordination, organization of courses and curriculum, supervision of residents, computerization and mentoring projects as well as acute inpatient and emergency treatment of patients.
RICHARD ZENN, MD
Director
2009-2011
Dr. Zenn is currently Chairman of Psychiatry at Glen Cove Hospital, and has an active inpatient, consultation and outpatient psychiatric practice based at the hospital. He is also on faculty in the Department of Psychiatry at Zucker Hillside Hospital/Long Island Jewish Medical Center, and as an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Previously, Dr. Zenn was an attending at Zucker Hillside Hospital, and served as the Director of the Hillside Behavioral Healthcare Group (HBHG), a community based multidisciplinary outpatient practice consisting of staff from Zucker-Hillside Hospital.
DEBORA BARCHILON, MD
Director
2010-2012
Dr. Barchilon is in private practice in Great Neck and in Manhattan, and maintains an appointment as a voluntary attending at North Sore/LIJ Health System. Her areas of expertise, besides children and adolescents, include women's mental health issues and working with trauma victims. In her practice, Dr Barchilon combines her deep interest in psycho-dynamic psychotherapies with the use of psycho-pharmacological interventions
RISA GOLD, MD
Director
2010-2012
Dr. Gold is currently as assistant attending at North Shore University Hospital, where responsibilities have included supervision of residents and mock Board exams. She is also an assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Dr Gold has been in private practice for Adult, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in Cold Spring Harbor. Her clinical interests include guided imagery and visualization as well as psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy and play therapy.
BRAD TEPPER, MD
Director
2010-2012
Dr. Tepper is currently in private practice in Garden City. He has served in various capacities including past Medical Director of Crisis and Emergency Services for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at LIJMC, Assistant Unit Chief at the Child and Adolescent Day Hospital LIJMC, staff psychiatrist at North Shore Child and Family Guidance Center and as a school psychiatric consultant to many Long Island school districts for over 15 years. Dr. Tepper is a Voluntary Attending Physician at LIJMC. Dr. Tepper currently maintains an appointment as Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and has recently joined the faculty with similar title at the new Hofstra University School of Medicine through LIJMC affiliation.