DIRECTOR OF INPATIENT CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY (New York)

Montefiore Health System

Montefiore Health System ( Montefiore ) is an integrated academic delivery system comprising seven campuses, including 10 hospitals, a multi-county ambulatory network, a children's hospital, a skilled nursing facility, school of nursing, home health agency, and the state's first freestanding emergency department. Montefiore and Einstein together constitute a premier academic health system, employing Einstein's clinical faculty and training over 700 medical students, 1,500 residents, 420 allied health students, 1,600 nursing students, 200 home health aides, and 100 social workers annually. Montefiore's ambulatory network includes over 180 primary, specialty, and sub-specialty sites providing 3.7 million visits annually. Its comprehensive primary care sites are certified as patient-centered medical homes, providing team-based, culturally sensitive care that strengthens the doctor-patient relationship. This innovative model extends to Montefiore's School Health Program, the largest school-based health center network in the country, annually serving 26,000 children in over 90 schools in the Bronx and Yonkers.

Albert Einstein College of Medicine

The Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Einstein) is one of the nation's premier institutions for medical education, basic research, and clinical investigation. From an original class size of 56, Einstein has evolved into one of the largest medical schools in the country. Einstein is home to more than 1,900 faculty members who promote research and academic excellence at the College of Medicine. In addition to conducting research in the institution's 300 laboratories, these individuals serve as mentors and teachers to the medical school's 732 M.D. students, 190 Ph.D. students, 120 M.D./Ph.D. students, and 250 postdoctoral research fellows at the Belfer Institute for Advanced Biomedical Studies. More than 9,000 Einstein alumni are among the nation's foremost clinicians, biomedical scientists, and medical educators.

Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences is nationally recognized as a leader in innovative models of adult and pediatric mental health care, public and community psychiatry, behavioral health integration, excellence in medical education and research, and an overarching commitment to advancing health equity.

Department Facts

• > 700 staff and faculty including 72 FTE Psychiatrists, 33 FTE Psychologists, and 225 FTE Social Workers and Counselors


• Psychiatry Research Institute at Montefiore Einstein (PRIME): 24 clinical and translational principal investigators


• Over $100 million in annual budgets, across multiple campuses


• Three hospital campuses (Moses, Wakefield, Weiler); two adult inpatient psychiatry units; 15 ambulatory mental health and addiction locations in the Bronx and Westchester, NY


• Adult psychiatry inpatient admissions > 1,050 annually


• Ambulatory mental health visits > 180,000 annually (> 20,000 pediatric, excluding School Health, CERC, and Butler)


• Ambulatory addiction visits > 350,000 annually


• Adult inpatient consultation-liaison visits: > 7,800 annually


• CHAM inpatient consultation-liaison visits: > 1,200 annually


• Emergency psychiatry visits: > 5,800 annually

Education

The Department has a four-year Adult Psychiatry residency program with a total of 48 residents. In addition to Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, the Department's other ACGME accredited fellowships include Addiction Psychiatry, Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, Forensic Psychiatry, and Geriatric Psychiatry. The Department also has a fellowship in Public and Community Psychiatry, a highly competitive Psychology Internship with nine interns annually within the Adult, Child, Combined Child/Adult, and Neuropsychology tracks. In recent years, the Department has created five clinical postdoctoral fellowships in health service psychology and three research postdoctoral fellowships in the Psychiatry Research Institute at Montefiore Einstein.

The Department participates actively in undergraduate medical education, including through its involvement in the Nervous System and Human Behavior Course in the second year featuring psychiatry, neurology, and neuroscience, as well as through core clinical rotations, acting internships, and advanced electives in Adult and Child Psychiatry. Interest in psychiatry among medical students is robust with about 10 percent of Einstein's graduating M.D. and M.D./Ph.D. students choosing to train in psychiatry.

Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

The Department will launch its first inpatient child and adolescent unit, the Montefiore Einstein Center for Children's Mental Health (CCMH) in Winter 2025, with 21 beds, to be located across from the Einstein campus on space leased from the OMH within the New York City Children's Center. This much needed unit will nearly double the number of acute pediatric psychiatry beds in the Bronx, providing state-of-the-art community focused care for youth in the Bronx and region. The new Montefiore Einstein Center for Children's Mental Health will be a cornerstone within our thriving Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry services and treatments are delivered through a range of Montefiore units, including the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. This Division is integral to the Department's clinical, research, education, and community missions, and benefits from extensive interconnections with the Children's Hospital at Montefiore (CHAM), Montefiore's acclaimed School Health Program , the Behavioral Health Integration Program (BHIP)/Montefiore Medical Group (MMG), the Rose F. Kennedy Children's Rehabilitation and Evaluation Center (RFK-CERC), the JE and ZB Butler Center for Children and Families, and the New York City Children's Center (NYCCC) - Bronx Campus.

The Department provides ambulatory services for children and adolescents at three Bronx-based campuses (Moses Child Outpatient Psychiatry Division, Wakefield Child Outpatient Psychiatry Division, and Montefiore Behavioral Health Center) and a Westchester-based faculty practice location (Montefiore Einstein Advanced Care). Attendings and trainees affiliated with the Department also provide pediatric psychiatric services in Montefiore's School Health Program with locations in public elementary, middle, and high schools throughout the Bronx and through the student mental health service at Fordham University. Trainees also rotate under faculty supervision through the Rose F. Kennedy Children's Evaluation and Rehabilitation Center for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, including autism.

Specialty programs within ambulatory services including the Eating Disorders Program at Montefiore, Anxiety and Mood Program (AMP) Program, Becoming an Emerging Adult (BEAM) Progr