2004 Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services, Two Night Workshop, "The Emotional Struggles of Weight Regulation, Why Can't I Just Do It?", Jewish Community Center of NYC.
2003 Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services, Short term group, "Crisis Interventiion with recently separated and divorced adults." Jewish Community Center of NYC.
2002 Collaboration with AGPA response to 9/11 Formed Short Term Support Group: "The Emotional Response to Job Loss Due to Sept. 11"
2001 Collaboration with AGPA response to 9/11 Formed 1 Day Psycho-Educational Day For Lee Hecht Harrison Outsource Group. Focus "The Emotional Response to Job Loss Due to Sept. 11".
2001 Critical Incident Stress Debriefing at Morgan Stanley, whose home office was in the World Trade Center. One other mental health professional and I set up a Mental Health Crisis Center.

Collaboration with AGPA response to 9-11 work with Families of Firefighters. One Day Interventions. (Brooklyn site and Orange County site.)

Critical Incident Stress Debriefing at The American Red Cross in response to 9-11.
2000 to
2002		 St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital Center/ University Hospital of Columbia University/ College of Physicians and Surgeons/ Department of Medicine/ Obesity Research Center/NIH Grant Look Ahead Study and The Diabetes Prevention Program.
    Staff Responsibilities as follows:
  • Development of interview protocol for patient inclusion in study.
  • Psychotherapy supervisor.
  • Psychotherapy Consultation for Referrals
  • Supervising and teaching mental and non mental health staff group dynamics in cognitive behavioral modalities.
1994 to
2001		 St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital Center/ University Hospital of Columbia University/ College of Physicians and Surgeons/ Department of Medicine/ Obesity Research Center/ Theodore B. VanItallie Center for Nutrition and Weight Management. Senior Psychotherapy Consultant.

Psychotherapy Supervisor for Psychotherapy Staff
    Staff Responsibilities as follows:
  • Psychotherapy Supervisor for Psychotherapy Staff
  • Development of Psychotherapy Protocol
  • Body Image Workshop
  • Short Term Psychotherapy Groups
  • Psychotherapy Consultation for Referrals
  • Psychotherapy Consultation for Surgical Clearance for Gastroplasty
1996 NYU Medical Center, Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine. Lecturer. Psychology Intern Training Program.: "Overview of Clinical Aspects of Weight Control and Regulation".
1979 to
1994		 St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital Center. Obesity Research Center. Weight Control Unit, NYC. Psychotherapy Consultant.
    Staff Responsibilities as follows:
  • Psychotherapy Supervisor for permanent staff members. (1979-88)
  • Staff Person responsible for training staff members from disciplines outside the mental health field and medical students in endocrine rotation.
  • Developed and conducted seminar series for pre-medical students, Institute of Nutrition, "Psychosocial Behavioral Approach to the Treatment of Eating Disorders," (1985).
  • Leads psychotherapy groups and developed short-term group psychotherapy modules using combined behavior modification and psychodynamic approach. Intake, differential psychiatric diagnosis, and individual psychotherapy.
1992 Doctoral candidate adviser to Research Fellow in the Sociology Department, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain.
1991 New York Times, Resource Person, Interview "The 90’s Woman: How Fat is Fat?" Same article reprinted International Herald Tribune.
1991 NBC, CBS, Resource Person, Interview "The Changing Body Image of Women".
1991 Woman’s Day, Resource Person, Interview "Exercise in the 90’s."
1990 United Weight Control Corp., in affiliation with St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center, Training Consultant, Body Image Workshop for Staff.
1986 CUNY Sophie Davis School of Bio-Medical Education. Guest Speaker. "Women’s Health Issues, Women and Dieting."
1985 Columbia University Student Mental Health Center. Special Consultant.
1984 NYC Television, Resource Person, "Eating During the Holiday Season".
1983 Teacher’s College, Columbia University. Guest Speaker. Continuing Education Seminar for Health Care Professionals. "Body Weight and Composition Seminar."
1981 City College of New York City, Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education: Guest Lecturer.

Seminar series in Bioethics, Community Health and Social Medicine. A course given to pre-medical students to sensitize and demonstrate the relationship of health care and its delivery system to other social institutions and to technology, with particular emphasis on the conceptual assumptions behind contemporary medicine and methodologies used in problem solving.
1980 Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx Psychiatric Center, Family Studies Section. NYC
Conference Coordinator

Coordinator for Family Studies 1980 Conference. "The Clinical Challenge of Working With Families in Today’s Community."
1979 Urban Research Planning and Conference Center. NYC.
Research Consultant

Comparative study - Children, U.S. & Abroad - Stress & Violence: Administrative Models - Instruments to interpret change.
1979 Beth Abraham Hospital. NYC. Consultant Wrote Hospice Proposal incorporating psychosocial aspects of patients with catastrophic illness for Department of Health Education and Welfare funding. (This project was funded.)
1971 to
1979		 Black Analysis Inc. NYC.
Consultant

A research group funded by The Carnegie Corporation to probe the multi-levels of the Black Experience. This was an interdisciplinary group comprised of anthropologists, social workers, lawyers, engineers. Several months were spent abroad to research the Mediterranean societies which were impacted by African civilizations from antiquity. The lead consultant on this project studied under John Hope Franklin Ph.D., Arthur Logan and Frank Snowden Ph.D. at Howard University. The lead resource book was authored by Dr. Snowden…Blacks in Greek and Roman Antiquity. My assignment was to make an inventory of information related to the Carthaginian and Arabic civilizations in the Mediterranean Region.

Wrote a proposal for refunding of Black Analysis Inc. Minority Group Doctoral Fellowship Program by Head Start, Department of Health Education and Welfare. (This project was funded.)

Carried out research for proposal-writing leading to funding of child welfare programs; doctoral program in early childhood education; economic development proposals for community development, such as, senior citizens’ housing project, low-moderate income housing in urban renewal areas. prepared analytical summaries and reports for use by funding sources, such as, foundations, State Government Agencies, Federal Government Agencies, which led to refunding of initial start programs. Evaluated programs for refunding and participated in "think tank" reviews.
1978 to
1979		 Union of American Hebrew Congregations, Jerusalem, Israel.

In collaboration with Rabbi Henry Skirball, Director Youth Program. Kibbutz Ein Dor. Evaluating suicide potential of teenagers in an American group, senior year abroad. Developing mental health group program for Americans on Kibbutz.


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