Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (Chair: Glenn Saxe, MD)

Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (Chair: Glenn Saxe, MD)

The CSC is an independent outpatient clinical and research center of the NYU School of Medicine. Located in Manhattan, the CSC has been highly successful in partnering with numerous agencies. The mission of the CSC is to improve and influence the practice of child mental health professionals.

The Division of General Internal Medicine and Clinical Innovation (DGIMCI), the Department of Medicine’s largest division, is the academic home to full-time and voluntary general internist School of Medicine faculty members. Founded in 2004 under the leadership of Marc N. Gourevitch, MD, MPH, DGIM has a large and growing portfolio of clinical and health service research initiatives, and is deeply engaged in residency and fellowship training and clinical care delivery within its sections (Primary Care and Genetics) and several affiliated healthcare systems (including Bellevue Hospital Center, Tisch Hospital, the VA New York Harbor Healthcare System – VA NYHHS). Resources within the division include the use of dedicated office space located between Bellevue Hospital Center and the VA NYHHS, telecom (phone, fax and LAN connections), administrative assistants, and grant, regulatory (IRB) and finance administrators.

The section on Primary Care maintains research and teaching collaborations with NYU's School of Law, Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, College of Nursing, and Steinhardt School of Education. In addition to the Primary Care Residency Training Program, led by Drs. Mack Lipkin and Sondra Zabar, the section is also home to several key centers and programs.

The Center for Health and Human Rights is dedicated to better understanding the interrelationship between health and human rights and the role of health professionals in promoting human rights through clinical services, education, research, and advocacy. In addition to sponsoring local and national symposia, the center conducts research, both domestically and internationally, on a variety of health and human rights concerns, including domestic violence, political asylum, racism and medicine, and patterns of human rights abuses among refugee populations.

The program was founded in 1995 by Dr. Allen Keller to treat the physical, mental, and social problems of torture survivors. The program provides comprehensive multidisciplinary care to immigrants, particularly refugees and asylum seekers, who have experienced torture and other human rights abuses in their countries of origin. Since its inception, the program has cared for more than 3,500 patients from over 1,000 countries, and has established an international reputation for excellence in its clinical, educational, and research activities. House staff and medical students participate in a number of the program's activities, including a weekly evening primary-care clinic for torture victims.

Dr. Mack Lipkin conducts research and educational projects designed to optimize communication between doctors and other health practitioners on the one hand and their patients, peers and colleagues, and the general public on the other. Past projects included the Macy Initiative in Health Communication, a study of comprehensive, competency-based medical student education in communication skills, and a CDC-funded initiative entitled "Psychosocial Aspects of Bioterrorism: Education for Readiness and Response," designed to teach physicians, nurses, and physician's assistants about this key aspect of bioterrorism and disaster response.

Program for Medical Education Innovations and Research (PrMEIR) (Director: Sondra Zabar, MD)

The College of Nursing is within the College of Dentistry at New York University. Founded in 1865 as the New York College of Dentistry, the College of Dentistry became an integral part of NYU in 1925, when it was renamed the New York University College of Dentistry (NYUCD). NYUCD is the third oldest and the largest dental school in the United States. It also has one of the largest and rapidly growing dental research programs in the country. The College of Nursing is committed to urban health care, particularly to those individuals, families, and communities who experience health disparities. The College is one of a limited number of programs in New York City that offer baccalaureate, masters, and doctoral education. The full-time faculty, most of whom are doctorally prepared, represent all areas of clinical practice preparation.

CDUHR is a P30 Center at the NYU College of Nursing funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. The goal of the Center is to enhance interdisciplinary research on HIV/AIDS and related infectious diseases among drug and alcohol users and other vulnerable populations. It provides a research infrastructure for HIV/AIDS-related research projects at New York University, the National Development and Research Institutes, Inc. (NDRI), Beth Israel Medical Center’s Chemical Dependency Institute (BIMC), and the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. The Center supports collaboration among investigators within and across multiple institutions and advances science by supporting the development of new knowledge and methods. The Center currently provides an infrastructure for over 20 investigators conducting HIV/AIDS-related projects.

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   Administration Core (Sherry Deren, Ph.D., Director; Marya Gwadz, Ph.D., Deputy Director) provides scientific leadership for the Center, and ensures that all activities contribute to synergy across projects and collaborative efforts across investigators. This Core facilitates coordination across Cores, provides centralized services, and promotes the use of interdisciplinary approaches to HIV research. 
   
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   Infectious Diseases Core (David C. Perlman, M.D., Director; Don C. Des Jarlais, Ph.D., Deputy Director; Madeline Naegle, Ph.D., Deputy Director) serves as a resource regarding clinical infectious disease issues among drug users and provides consultation and training for investigators to enhance interdisciplinary studies. 
   
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   Theoretical Synthesis Core (Samuel R. Friedman, Ph.D., Director; David C. Perlman, M.D., Deputy Director) provides theoretical training and consultation and engages in theory development to integrate theories drawn from diverse disciplines.
   
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   Intervention Research Core (Marya Gwadz, Ph.D., Director; Ann Kurth, Ph.D., Deputy Director) provides support for the development of intervention research related to HIV and drug/substance use. 
   
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   Interdisciplinary Research Methods Core (Holly Hagan, Ph.D.; Director, Don C. Des Jarlais, Ph.D, Deputy Director; Michele Shedlin, Ph.D., Deputy Director; Charles M. Cleland, Ph.D., Deputy Director) fosters optimal approaches to study design and analyses of infectious diseases and prevention in drug users and their communities by providing consultation and training on new methodologies. 
   
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   Dissemination Core (Joseph Lunievicz, Director; Andrew Osborned, MSED, CHES, Deputy Director; Shiela Strauss, Ph.D., Deputy Director) enhances dissemination of research findings to a broad audience of clinicians, researchers, community service providers, and policy makers.
   

New York University, Silver School of Social Work, founded in 1960, is among the nation's leading institutions for the education of professional social workers. The School offers accredited programs at the undergraduate, masters, and doctoral levels, and serves as a major postgraduate training center for hundreds of practitioners in the New York City area. The School's Master of Social Work (MSW) program is distinguished for its’ focus on clinical social work and the provision of direct services to NYC’s most vulnerable populations. The School's faculty is involved in an extraordinary range of scholarly research initiatives, collaborates intensively with government and community-based agencies, and play key roles in major social work journals.

The McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy & Research was founded with a transformative private gift in 2007 to reflect the School of Social Work’s commitment to uncover the destructive effects of poverty for New Yorkers and to create scientific knowledge meant to inform policy makers and practitioners who make critical decisions regarding the organization of supports and resources meant to mitigate its’ affects. The McSilver Institute draws upon the resources of New York University and benefits from affiliations with the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development, as well as NYU School of Law. A partial list of faculty and community advisors to McSilver include: Alma Carten, Ph.D., Larry Aber, Ph.D., Paul Light, Ph.D., Linda Mills, Ph.D., Nancy Morowitz, JD, Jerome Wakefield, Ph.D., Mary Pender Greene, Ph.D., Connie Silver, DSW, Nancy Wackstein, Ph.D., Phyllis Barasch, DSW, and Deborah Padgett, Ph.D.

The Clinic Technical Assistance Center (CTAC) is a training, consultation, and educational resource center available to all child and adult-serving clinics in New York State. CTAC assists clinics to address the challenges associated with the recent changes in clinic regulations, financing, and overall healthcare reforms. CTAC provides training and support on quality improvement strategies for clinics -- including training on specific clinical skills and evidence-based practices. Importantly, CTAC assists clinics to develop strong business and financial models to ensure sustainability through learning collaborative and webinars.

The Center for Latino Adolescent and Family Health (CLAFH) at New York University’s Silver School of Social Work is a research center that investigates key issues that affect Latino families. Strategically based in New York City, CLAFH maintains a fully trained data collection staff experienced in tracking and collecting data on inner city, Latino and African American populations. The data collectors are all from the communities where the proposed research will take place and are fully bi-lingual and bi-cultural. CLAFH office computers are properly equipped for the management of data and the research team currently utilizes a customized project management database developed in SQL for the purpose of facilitating project management. The database is designed to assist with tracking the participants, monitoring the timeline for each subject, interviewer productivity, and a number of additional project management functions. Network access, telephone, email, desktop and LAN services, copiers, scanners, fax, and other office machines are available to all staff in CLAFH offices. The Center reserves space for administering questionnaires and surveys to ensure confidentiality of all participants. CLAFH also has dedicated space for conducting focus groups and interviews to ensure privacy for all study participants. The Center maintains video conferencing technology, used to link the New York City office with key personnel and consultants in remote locations.

The Center for Collaborative Inner-City Child Mental Health Services Research (CCCR) was established in collaboration with: 1) the New York State Office of Mental Health and; 2) two family and community advocacy boards representing inner-city youth, families and communities (Bronx Community Collaborative Board and the Family Advocates Research Board (FAR Board).  The aim of the CCCR is to organize multi-disciplinary researchers on the conduct of child mental health services research in order to improve the overall health and mental health of vulnerable youth, too often struggling with the overlapping threats of poverty which impacts emotional and physical wellness within urban contexts. The CCCR is specifically focused on the development and testing of novel clinical practices and service delivery models that are informed by existing empirical findings, as well as the outcomes associated with intensive collaboration between researchers, practitioners, youth and families living in inner-city neighborhoods.  Support from CCCR also focuses faculty members on the mentoring of new investigators of color, particularly those with direct clinical practice experienced in the conduct of urban services research.  The emphasis of the mentors is helping the next generation of researchers integrate methods that are sufficiently resilient to navigate obstacles within “real world” urban communities and mental health practice settings and that integrate parents, youth, and mental health providers, perspectives.

The NYU Cancer Institute, a National Cancer Institute-designated cancer center, is recognized for translating knowledge about the roots of cancer into innovative therapies and advanced cancer care in a setting where the patient comes first. With three outpatient cancer centers—the Clinical Cancer Center, the Stephen D. Hassenfeld Children's Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders, and the Joel E. Smilow Comprehensive Prostate Cancer Center—the institute provides care that is simultaneously compassionate and state of the art. Patients have access to not only the latest prevention, screening, diagnostic, treatment, genetic counseling, and support services for cancer, but also broad access to cutting-edge clinical trials.

New York University School of Medicine’s (NYUSOM) Human Research Protections Program has been awarded full accreditation by the Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs Inc. The Institutional Review Board (IRB) at NYUSOM promotes and protects the welfare and rights of all human research participants. NYUSOM IRB facilitates excellence in human research by extending personalized guidance and support to the research community through timely and high quality service, education, review and monitoring for all human projects conducted at NYUSOM.

The NYUSOM Sponsored Programs Administration (SPA) office, also known as the Grants Office for the NYU School of Medicine/Langone Medical Center, is dedicated to supporting and enhancing the education, service, and research programs of the NYU School of Medicine. They assure compliance with university, medical school, sponsor and government policies and procedures. SPA services include:

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  Review and provide institutional endorsement for sponsored project proposals.
  
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  Work to ensure that the School of Medicine is fully compliant with sponsor terms and conditions, School of Medicine policies, and all sponsor regulations and requirements.
  
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  Review, approve and facilitate the School of Medicine’s post-award actions that require sponsor approval such as a change in the principal investigator, revisions to budgeting, submissions of progress reports, no-cost extensions and other notifications.
  
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  Review, interpret and disseminate policies from Federal sponsoring agencies and other external sponsors. 
  
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  Negotiate and accept sponsored awards in the form of grants, contracts and cooperative agreements and issuing sub-awards on behalf of the School of Medicine.
  
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  Establish accounts for sponsored projects in the financial system.
  
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  Provide personal assistance with proposals including budget development and sponsor compliance review.
  
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  Provide state-of-the-art access to funding information via internet including deadlines, guidelines, policy updates and links to the NIH, NSF, DoD and other federal and non-federal sponsors.
  
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  Conduct workshops to enhance grant writing skills.
  

New York University School of Medicine (NYUSOM) laboratories include the Nelson Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, the Skirball Institute (thematic basic and translational science including genomics), and the Sackler Institute of Graduate Medical Sciences. Also, public health laboratory resources are available through the New York City Dept. of Health, the New York State Dept. of Health, the Connecticut Dept. of Health, and the New Jersey Dept. of Health.

The Sackler Institute at NYU School of Medicine is a division of the Graduate School of Arts and Science of New York University, offering programs in the basic medical sciences, leading to the Ph.D. degree and, in coordination with The Medical Scientist Training Program, combined M.D./Ph.D. degrees. The responsibilities of the Institute are to set policies on admission, curriculum, stipend levels, student evaluations and PhD requirements. All graduate students at the NYU School of Medicine are regulated by the general policies of the Institute. The mission of the Graduate Programs of the Sackler Institute is to train students to function as independent scientists (in academic, government or industrial sectors) with a wide breadth of knowledge and skills in the fields of modern molecular and medical biology and to produce leaders who will be positioned at the forefront of basic and applied research in the area of biomedical research. In addition, graduates are expected to be imbued with social and ethical responsibilities in the application of their knowledge.

Potential graduate students apply directly to the Sackler Institute and form the applicant pool for all 11 interdepartmental/ interdisciplinary graduate programs. The Institute attracts a large pool of highly qualified and diverse candidates. A unique feature of the application process is that all students apply through the "Open Admissions" (i.e. umbrella) program although they generally specify a research interest in their application. As a result of the “Open Admissions” format, students are not initially affiliated with any specific program and thus enjoy the flexibility in choosing any courses and to rotate in any laboratories within the Sackler Institute. Students who specify a particular interest (e.g. Pharmacology) frequently take their laboratory rotations with members of that program and, thus, tend to take their training in that program. The School of Medicine covers the stipend and tuition costs of students for the first year.

The NYU Langone Medical Center offers major resources for medical education, research, and patient care. The majority of medical education and clinical training takes place at three chief, integral institutions, located adjacent to one another: Bellevue Hospital Center, Tisch Hospital, and the New York Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center.

The NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC) is the largest public hospital system in the US. It operates 11 acute care and community hospitals, five long-term care facilities, six diagnostic and treatment facilities, a certified home health agency, and more than 70 community health clinics. HHC has 35,000 staff members and 8,000 volunteers, with 4,500 acute care beds and 3,000 long-term care or skilled nursing facility beds. Each year there are 225,000 hospital admissions, over 1 million emergency department visits, and over 5 million patient visits. Overwhelmingly, the major payers are Medicaid, Bad Debt and Charity Pools from state and federal programs.

The School has developed unique educational partnerships with over 500 public and non-profit agencies throughout the tri-state area. Leadership and staff at these sites are expected to serve as important collaborators for current and future research studies. Students at the School of Social Work collectively provide more than a half-million hours of service each year through their field placements and volunteer work.

The CSC has fully approved programs in Child Psychiatry and Clinical Child Psychology, including:

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   Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Residency: The residency is fully accredited and has a multidisciplinary faculty. Residents rotate in child and adolescent psychiatry at Bellevue Hospital, in Pediatrics at Tisch and Bellevue Hospitals, and the CSC specialty clinics. Working in collaboration with educators is emphasized.
   
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   Clinical Child Psychology Internship: Specialized training in assessment, treatment, and research in child psychology. Interns serve on the clinical teams of CSC and Bellevue Hospital. Interns receive inpatient and outpatient training and have opportunities to specialize in focused, research based treatments and assessment techniques.
   
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   Clinical Child Psychology Postdoctoral Fellowship: The aim of the two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship is to facilitate the professional development of independent scientist-practitioners in a substantive clinical area. Separate fellowships are available in CSC’s ADHD, Anxiety and Mood Disorders, and Neuropsychology Services.
   
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   NRSA T32 Translational Research Training in Child/Adolescent Mental Health: Five post-doctoral fellows are supported by this training grant to develop the skills and the preliminary data required for career advancement as investigators.
   

The New York University School of Medicine (NYU) – NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC) Clinical and Translational Science Institute (NYU-HHC CTSI) was created in 2009 as the home of the Clinical and Translational Science Award at NYU. Granted by NIH’s National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), these awards are designed to strengthen the full spectrum of translational research by providing academic homes for translational sciences, training the next generation of clinical and translational scientists, and supporting research resources needed by local and national research communities to improve the quality and efficiency of all phases of translational research. The CTSI is a partnership of many of NYU’s component schools (the School of Medicine, Colleges of Dentistry and Nursing, Steinhardt School of Education, Wagner School of Public Administration, the School of Arts and Sciences, NYU-Polytechnic School of Engineering and the Stern School of Business) and the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, the largest municipal health care organization in the United States. The CTSI acts as an integrated home for resources, services, best practices and training so that investigators from all partner institutions can work together across the translational continuum and better apply scientific rigor to the study of health and disease with the goal of expediting the establishment of new treatment and prevention paradigms to improve the health of our constituents and ultimately our country.