I am a board-certified psychiatrist and a neuroscientist. I work with children, adolescents and adults in New York City and have a special interest in treating individuals with eating disorders, including anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID), binge-eating disorder and those with impairing body image concerns including body dysmorphic disorder and muscle dysmorphia. 

I graduated from Brown University with Honors in Neuroscience. I completed the Medical Scientist Training Program at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, receiving my MD and a PhD in Neuroscience. My dissertation research was on developmental and experiential changes in brain function. I completed psychiatry residency and a child & adolescent psychiatry fellowship at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. In addition to my private practice, I am a research fellow at Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute and I practice emergency psychiatry at NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital.

During training at Mount Sinai, I was selected as a Chief Resident and then as a Chief Fellow. I was appointed as a Leon Levy Fellow in Neuroscience. I was selected as a Laughlin Fellow of the American College of Psychiatrists, after being deemed likely to make a significant contribution to the field of psychiatry. My clinical research has focused on the neurobiology and treatment of eating disorders. With colleagues, I identified the first genes shown to increase risk for binge-eating disorder and discovered that dysfunctional iron metabolism contributes to this disorder (see BioWorld). My work on mirror exposure therapy has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Psychology Today and Teen Vogue.