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<div class="title">Announcing the Formation of Two Support Groups</div>
<a href="asian_mens_group.doc">1. NYC Asian-American Men's Group</a> <br>
<a href="medically_ill.html">2. Mind-Body Medicine and Coping Skills for the
Medically Ill</a> <br>
<a href="caregivers1.html">3. Support Group for Caregivers</a>
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<div class="title">Mission</div>
Integrating the advances of modern medicine with the wisdom of ancient medical healing systems is just good common sense. It is not alternative medicine. It is good medicine.
My role in this emerging field is twofold:
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<li> I provide highly personalized treatments that teach you how to use your
mind and emotions to improve your physical, social, and mental well-being.
<li>I educate and facilitate groups that improve participants' use of mind
and emotion to relieve physical, social, and mental suffering.
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<div class="title">My information in New York is:</div>
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For appointments: <br>
(917) 405-3316<br>
<a href="mailto:info@siddharthshah.com?subject=Mind/Body Preventive Medicine">info@siddharthshah.com</a>
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Office #1 <br>
31 W. 12th St #1E<br>
[Greenwich Village]<br>
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Olive Leaf Wholeness Center<br>
145 East 23rd Street<br>
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<p>POSTDOCTORAL TRAINING<br>
- Residency in Preventive Medicine, 2003, Mount Sinai School of Medicine;</p>
<p>New York, NY<br>
- Internship, 2001, Karl Menninger School of Psychiatry, Topeka, KS</p>
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EDUCATION<br>
- Masters of Public Health, 2003, Mount Sinai School of Medicine; New York,
NY<br>
- MD, 2000, Baylor College of Medicine; Houston, TX<br>
- B.A. Religious Studies, cum laude, 1994, Rice University; Houston, TX<br>
Visiting scholar, 1992, Swarthmore College; Swarthmore, PA </p>
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LICENSURE AND BOARD CERTIFICATION<br>
- State of New York, License# 224430-1, initially granted April 2002<br>
- American Board of Preventive Medicine, initially granted January 2004</p>
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AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION<br>
- Emotionally-based treatments to enhance mental, social, and physical well-being<br>
- Treatments for groups and organizations at risk for burnout or secondary
traumatic stress</p>
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE</p>
<p>- Program Director of Preventive Medicine and Attending Physician in Family
Medicine, Wyckoff Heights Medical Center; Brooklyn, NY</p>
<p>6/2004 to present</p>
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<p>- Faculty, Mount Sinai School of Medicine; New York, NY <br>
7/2003 to present</p>
<p>My work includes medical student and resident training, academic lectures
for the masters program, and facilitating a 40-hour training for domestic
violence intervention and rape crisis counselors.</p>
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<p>- Psycho-Social Consultant, Consumer Information and Dispute Resolution,
Inc.; New York, NY</p>
<p>1/2004 to present</p>
<p>Consultant for Olive Leaf Wholeness Center, hired to deliver Integrative
Medical Services (psychotherapy, pharmacotherapy, complementary treatments)
to address the concerns of those living with catastrophic mental illness.
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<p>- Private Practice; New York, NY<br>
7/2003 to present</p>
<p>My practice includes individual and group psychotherapy. It is an integrative
health model that utilizes traditional psychotherapies, medical hypnosis,
meditation training, and energy-based rehabilitation. Conditions treated include
pain syndromes, depression, psychological trauma, and chronic illness.</p>
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- Resident in Preventive Medicine; New York, NY<br>
7/2001 to 6/2003</p>
<p>I served as clinician, teacher, program designer, and public health specialist
at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine. This involved working at both community-based
organizations and the Mt. Sinai Hospital. At a community-based organization
for South Asian immigrants in Queens, NY, I ran two 16-week long groups: Substance
Abuse Treatment and Male Batterer Intervention Treatment. Treatment was conducted
in four languages: English, Hindi, Urdu, & Gujarati. Upon completing the
40-hour experiential training with the Sexual Assault and Violence Intervention
Program [SAVI], I regularly tookl night calls to counsel and advocate for
survivors in eight NYC hospital emergency departments. I was a trainer in
the Fall of 2003, and I am helping to select trainees in the Fall of 2004.</p>
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<p>As a member of the American Group Psychotherapy Association, I have been
liaison to their post-9/11 work with Muslim, Arab, and South Asian populations.
I served as a community health educator at many town-hall meetings of New
Yorkers feeling targeted by hate crimes. I was invited to provide technical
assistance to Federal Emergency Management Agency-supported Project Liberty
and the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, where I worked on a strategy
statement for serving Muslim, Arab, and South Asian populations. Also with
Project Liberty, I began a community intervention at the Islamic Elementary
School in Brooklyn, helping to assess the nature of bias incidents and traumatic
impact on Muslims in New York. </p>
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<p>At Mt. Sinai, I have been a group therapist for people [most recently HIV+
Gay Men] suffering illness, bereavement, treatment-related problems. At the
school-based clinic in the Julia Richman Complex (New York, NY), I have seen
adolescents for minor complaints, sports physicals, and behavioral counseling
[substance use, sexual habits]. </p>
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<p>Following severe civil violence in 2002 in Ahmedabad, India, I surveyed directors
from humanitarian aid organizations in order to develop prevention services
for humanitarian workers who were at risk for burnout and secondary traumatic
stress. I wrote and submitted a project proposal in compliance with the Institutional
Review Board regulations. While there I provided group psychotherapy, psychoeducation,
training and capacity building for these populations. Extracting variables
and using SPSS for a dataset, I conducted qualitative and quantitative analyses.
I presented my conclusions to an academic panel, and I continue to be in contact
with my patients and trainees in India. I am now pursuing publication of my
findings for the benefit of future humanitarian aid workers’ mental
health. </p>
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<p>- Resident in Psychiatry; Topeka, KS<br>
7/2000 to 6/2001</p>
<p>My professional development involved clinical treatment and administrative
duties in the following: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Treatment, Substance
Abuse Treatment, Geriatric Psychiatry, Emergency Psychiatry, Child Psychiatry,
Individual Psychotherapy at a Juvenile Facility, Group Psychotherapy, Brief
counseling, and Medical Hypnosis.</p>
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<p>TEACHING ACTIVITIES<br>
- Culture and Medicine class for Masters Public Health, lecturer, “The
Cultural Dimension of Mental Health and its relation to Physical Health,”
May 20, 2003<br>
- Epidemiology and Biostatistics small group instructor, Spring 2002 trimester<br>
- Family Medicine Clerkship small group instructor, October 2002</p>
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PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES<br>
- Boardmember and Special Interest Group Chairperson for the Eastern Group
Psychotherapy Society, May 2003 - present</p>
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PUBLICATIONS<br>
- Manuscript: “Secondary Traumatic Stress: Prevalence for Humanitarian
Aid Workers.”<br>
- Contributor for: V. Bhushan, V. Pall, T. Le, V. Coric, L. Sanfilippo, ed.
USMLE Steps 2 & 3 Clinical Vignettes for Psychiatry, 2nd edition, Blackwell
Science, Inc. (Massachusetts) 2002.</p>
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ORAL PRESENTATIONS <br>
- “Trauma Recovery among Relief Workers in India,” 10/24/02, Psychiatry
Faculty Conference<br>
- “Techniques to ease the Mind’s Conversation with the Body,”
3/27/03, Psychiatry Faculty Conference<br>
- “Mind-Body-Spiritual Medicine,” 4/5/03, Network of Indian Professionals<br>
- “Special Issues for South Asian survivors of Sexual Assault &
Domestic Violence,” 5/21/03, OB/GYN Grand Rounds <br>
- “Burnout among Medical Caregivers,” 1/6/04, Institute for Geriatric
Care, (Salvador da Bahia, Brazil) </p>
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<p>HONORS<br>
- New York Times Company Foundation 9/11 Neediest Fund Award for conducting
work with South Asian, Muslim, & Arab immigrant populations<br>
- Menninger Clinic’s Scholarship in Psychiatry<br>
- Psychotherapy Conference Scholarship from Institute of Religion</p>
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LANGUAGES<br>
- Fluent in Hindi, Gujarati, Urdu. Basic use of Spanish and Portuguese.<br>
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