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| About
Samoon Ahmad, MD |
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Specialities
- Interpersonal
dynamic & supportive psychotherapy
- Addressing
people with depression, anxiety, marital & interpersonal
problem
- Psychiatric
problems of workers in the corporate world
- Mood
and anxiety disorders
- Bipolar
disorder
- Psychopharmacological
management
- Second
opinions and consultant to other medical specialists
- Consultant
to federal law enforcement agencies
- Metabolic
disorders in psychiatric patients
- Weight
management and wellness program
- Optifast®(medically
supervised meal replacement therapy) provider
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| Dr. Samoon Ahmad |
Education
- Medical
Education- Allama Iqbal Medical College, Pakistan
- Internships
- NYU Medical Center 1992-1993
- Residency
Training- Dept. of Psychiatry, NYU Medical Center 1993-1995
- Chief
Resident - Dept. of Psychiatry, NYU Medical Center 1995-1996
- Board
Certifications - Psychiatry
Academic
Appointments:
- Clinical
Associate Professor in Psychiatry, NYU School of Medicine
Hospital
Appointments:
- Attending
Psychiatrist, NYU Langone Medical Center, New York, NY
Bibliography:
- On
Call Psychiatry (W.B. Saunders Co.): Anxiety Disorder
Assistant to the Editor: Kaplan and Sadock's, Synopsis of Psychiatry (Ninth
Edition).
Contributing Editor: Kaplan and Sadock’s, Pocket Handbook of Clinical
Psychiatry
(Fourth Edition).
- Contributing
Editor: Kaplan and Sadock’s, Concise Textbook of Child
and Adolescent Psychiatry (First Edition).
- Consulting
Editor: Kaplan and Sadock’s, Concise Textbook of Clinical
Psychiatry
(Third Edition).
- Contributing
Author: Kaplan and Sadock’s, Comprehensive Textbook of
Psychiatry
(Ninth Edition).
- Contributing
Author: Clinical Addiction Psychiatry by David Brizer and Ricardo
Castaneda. (First Edition). Suicide and Substance Abuse.
- Ahmad,
S., Feder, A. (2010). Earthquake Impact in a Remote South Asian
Population: Psychosocial Factors and Posttraumatic Symptoms.
Journal of Traumatic Stress, June 2010, Volume 23, Issue 3,
Pages 408-412.
Awards.
- 2007-
Frank Ochberg Award for Media and Trauma Study: An award given
by the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies for
Dr. Ahmad's film “THE WRATH OF GOD; A FAITH BASED SURVIVAL
PARADIGM” and a study on the coping mechanisms and related
post-traumatic stress disorder in the October 2005 earthquake
survivors in Kashmir and Pakistan.
Languages
Spoken:
- English
- Hindi
- Punjabi
- Urdu
Additional
Interests & Websites:
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