Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship Program
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Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship Program

Over the course of our two-year training program, fellows rotate on cutting-edge collaborative services, providing mental healthcare to patients from infancy through college. The clinical work fellows participate in focuses on children with developmental disorders, and includes rotations in autism, complex interfaces between ADHD and mood disorders, embedded school-based programs, early infant psychiatry and integrated pediatric care. We also offer an elective in child global mental health, which has taken past residents to Uganda and Colombia.

Portrait of Melissa Rooney, MD

Melissa Rooney, MD, Clinical Director of Psychiatry, Montefiore-Moses Campus and Children's Hospital at Montefiore

Why our program could be right for you

Provided in collaboration with Montefiore Einstein and the New York City Children's Center Bronx Campus, our Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship Program has a threefold mission: to offer academic and training excellence in child and adolescent psychiatry, produce innovative research and enhance access the delivery of high-quality child and adolescent psychiatry services within the greater New York City metropolitan area.

Montefiore Medical Center

Housed within the 3331 Bainbridge location of Montefiore Medical Park, the Psychiatry Residency Office is home to our administrative staff, including program administrators, directors and our senior chief resident. This location also serves as our Resident Training House, and is the site of our Thursday didactic training and resident wellness events. Through the social and educational events provided at the Psychiatry Residency Office, residents have ample opportunity to get acquainted throughout their four years of training. 

A world-renowned faculty

Melissa H. Rooney, MD

Clinical Director of Psychiatry, Montefiore-Moses Campus and Children's Hospital at Montefiore
Program Director, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Scott H. Shaffer, MD

Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics
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Samira Rabbanifar, M.D.

Associate Program Director, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship
Attending Psychiatrist, Moses Child Psychiatry Outpatient Department
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Jennifer Petras, MD

Medical Director, Moses Child Psychiatry Outpatient Department
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Rebecca Eichenbaum, MD

Director, Pediatric Psychiatry Consultation Liaison Service
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Kathleen Jung, MD

Attending Psychiatrist, Moses Child Psychiatry Outpatient Department
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Feng Liu, MD

Attending Psychiatrist, Children’s Evaluation & Rehabilitation Center(CERC)
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Jason Herrick, MD

Director of Behavioral Health – Montefiore Medical Group
Project Teach - Site Director, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Attending Psychiatrist, Bronx Science, Montefiore School Health Program
Attending Psychiatrist, Montefiore Medical Group
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Linda Chokroverty, MD

Attending Psychiatrist, Montefiore Psychiatric Observation Suite
Course Director, Child and Adolescent Psychopathology and Psychopharmacology Course

A challenging and innovative curriculum

Open to four fellows per year, Montefiore Einstein’s two-year Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship Program offers trainees a diverse and immersive clinical experience, intensive individual supervision and an extensive didactic curriculum across all areas of child and adolescent psychiatry. Among many unique opportunities, fellows participate in a two-year outpatient child and adolescent psychiatry experience involving a comprehensive school consultation to observe various psychotherapies, including psychodynamic psychotherapy, dialectical behavior therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, family and group therapy. 

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Our fellows gain clinical experience with children and adolescents with developmental disabilities at the Rose F. Kennedy Children's Evaluation & Rehabilitation Center, and participate in a consultation-liaison rotation at Children’s Hospital at Montefiore. Additionally, fellows rotate in pediatric integrated care at Montefiore’s Behavioral Health Integration Program, and complete rotations on an adolescent and children’s inpatient unit as part of a six-month inpatient experience. Our fellows have the opportunity to pursue research with world-class scientists at the Psychiatry Research Institute at Montefiore Einstein, and they can pursue an elective in global health while abroad at Montefiore Einstein-affiliated sites in Uganda, Colombia or Switzerland. 
 

Fellowship Application Information

We’re seeking fellows who will shape the future of healthcare.

If you would like to apply to become a Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellow at Montefiore Einstein, here are some key dates to keep in mind.

  • July 1 through October—Applications reviewed
  • September through December—Interviews conducted

Have questions? Get in touch.

Danielle A. James
Coordinator, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship Program
djames@montefiore.org
 

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