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About

The Department of Psychiatry has played a major leadership role in curriculum development for our over 400 medical students. Our General Psychiatry Residency program recruits academically strong, well-rounded trainees who go on to successful careers. The department offers ACGME accredited fellowships in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Forensic Psychiatry. Finally, a nationally recognized psychology internship is offered through the department and our clinical partner, University Behavioral HealthCare. We believe our training programs are a real strength and I hope you will consider further exploring the opportunities that we provide.

Our patient care activities include state of the art programs in acute services, psychopharmacology and diverse psychotherapy programs and serve child, adult and geriatric populations. Our department boasts nationally recognized programs and offers a full array of services in behavioral medicine, neuropsychiatry and transplantation medicine.

Our faculty serve the community through various clinical joint programs with primary care at the Chandler Clinic and with University Behavioral HealthCare. The department makes significant contributions to the needs of the medically underserved and chronically mentally ill population.

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Message from the Senior Vice Chair

Welcome to the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Department of Psychiatry website. I am glad to provide you with a brief introduction to our department and hope that you will explore our website.

Robert Wood Johnson Medical School was founded in 1966 and is located adjacent to the Rutgers University Campus. It was originally the Rutgers Medical School but became part of The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) in 1975. In July of 2013 we once again became part of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, as part of the New Jersey Medical and Health Sciences Education Restructuring Act.

As one of the nation's leading comprehensive medical schools, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in education, research, health care delivery, and the promotion of community health. In cooperation with Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, the medical school's principal affiliate, we comprise New Jersey's premier academic medical center. In addition, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School has 34 other hospital affiliates and ambulatory care sites throughout the region.

The medical school maintains educational programs at the undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate levels for more than 1,500 students on its campuses in New Brunswick and Piscataway, and provides continuing education courses for health care professionals and community education programs.

The Department of Psychiatry has an energetic and productive faculty who are devoted to our core missions of teaching, research, patient care and community service. We have an excellent student body and a superb group of residents. Our clinical and research resources are broad based and make for a top notch academic atmosphere.

Anthony Tobia, MD
Senior Vice Chair

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Office of the Senior Vice Chair
671 Hoes Lane West
2nd Floor, Room D-207
Piscataway, New Jersey 08854
Phone: 732-235-4440
Fax: 732-235-5158
Make an Appointment with a Physician:  (732) 235-7647

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Residency

General Psychiatry Residency Program

The General Psychiatry Residency Program is structured to provide residents with the knowledge and expertise to deliver superior psychiatric care to their patients. These goals are accomplished through a four-year broad-based curriculum, which includes such areas as neuropsychiatry, psychopathology, pharmacology and various psychotherapeutic approaches to their patient.

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Fellowships

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

The program provides the opportunity to go beyond the training in general psychiatry to become a highly skilled provider of comprehensive medical care to children and adolescents suffering from psychiatric disorders. To achieve this goal, the training includes a carefully selected array of clinical and didactic experiences that ensure that the trainee will have the knowledge and skill to function with confidence in the wide variety of settings in which today’s child and adolescent psychiatry practices. 

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Forensic Psychiatry

The Forensic Psychiatry fellowship offers advanced training for psychiatrists who wish to subspecialize in forensic psychiatry. Residents will rotate through New Jersey’s prisons, juvenile facilities, state forensic and civil hospitals, and private practices of faculty members. The didactic curriculum will join that of the consortium of forensic psychiatry programs in New York City, thereby providing the fellow both excellent didactic training and connections to one’s professional peers. 

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Grand Rounds

Grand Rounds lectures will be of interest to psychiatrists, psychologists, neurologists, researchers, residents, psychology interns and clinicians.

Learning Objectives

The educational objectives of this series are as follows:

  • to increase the knowledge of the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School community regarding psychiatric diagnoses and treatments with special emphasis upon the biopsychosocial model.
  • to increase the knowledge of the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School community regarding the neurobiology, genetics, and epidemiology of psychiatric and neurobiology, genetics, and neuropsychiatric disorders
  • to increase the knowledge of the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School community regarding psychiatric treatments with an emphasis on cutting edge research and newer developments in biological interventions
  • to increase the knowledge of the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School community regarding cultural, ethnic, and socioeconomic factors that contribute to diversity and disparities in psychiatric conditions and service utilization

Continuing Education Credit

The Rutgers Center for Continuing and Outreach Education is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The Rutgers Center for Continuing and Outreach Education designates this educational activity up to 1 hour(s) in category 1 credit toward the AMA Physician's Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the educational activity

Cancellation Policy

Rutgers reserves the right to modify the program content, program speaker, and program topic. Rutgers also reserves the right to cancel the program.

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Rutgers is located in central New Jersey in the city of New Brunswick and across the Raritan River in Piscataway. Middlesex-Somerset-Hunterdon counties rank fourth in per capita income nationwide. It is a manufacturing center, agricultural center, high-tech corporate center, and small-town America rolled into one.

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  • Fazil Aliev, PhD
    Associate Professor

    Azima Ashraf, MD
    Associate Professor
    ashrafaz@ubhc.rutgers.edu

    Gary Aston-Jones, MD
    Distinguished Professor
    Director, Brain Health Institute
    732-235-6077
    gsa35@ca.rutgers.edu
    Brain Health Institute

    Mary Beirne, MD
    Assistant Professor
    beirnema@ubhc.rutgers.edu

    Mona Bijlani, MD
    Associate Professor
    Phone (732) 235-5927
    bijlanmv@ubhc.rutgers.edu

    Sarah Brislin, PhD
    Research Instructor
    Rutgers Addiction Research Center (RARC)
    sarah.brislin@rutgers.edu

    Vamsee Chaguturu, MD
    Assistant Professor, Consultation Liaison
    Phone: 732-235-7647
    Fax: 732-235-7677
    chagutvk@rwjms.rutgers.edu

    John Calvin Chatlos, MD
    Associate Professor
    Phone (732) 235-6900
    Fax (732) 235-3485
    chatlojc@ubhc.rutgers.edu

    Raymond Chong, MD
    Assistant Professor

    Tammy Chung, PhD
    Professor

    Nina Cooperman, PsyD
    Associate Professor
    Phone: (732) 235-4341
    Fax: (732) 235-4277
    cooperna@rwjms.rutgers.edu

    Kristen Coppola, PhD
    Assistant Professor

    Andrew C. Coyne, PhD
    Professor
    Phone: (732) 235-4051
    Fax:(732) 235-3478

    Anthony Deo, MD, PhD
    Assistant Professor, Consultation Liaison
    Phone: 732-235-7647
    Fax: 732-235-7677
    ad1443@rwjms.rutgers.edu

    Danielle Dick, PhD
    Director, Rutgers Addiction Research Center, Brain Health Institute
    Greg Brown Endowed Chair in Neuroscience
    Professor
    danielle.m.dick@rutgers.edu
    https://www.danielledick.com/

    Roseanne D. Dobkin, PhD
    Professor
    Phone: (732) 235-4051
    Fax: (732) 235-3478
    dobkinro@rwjms.rutgers.edu

    Javier I. Escobar, MD, MSc
    Professor
    Associate Dean for Global Health
    escobaja@rwjms.rutgers.edu
    Global Health

    Jack Fatica, MD
    Assistant Professor
    Phone: (732) -235-6800
    Fax (732) 235-6187
    jf1123@ubhc.rutgers.edu

    Cheryl Graber, MD
    Associate Professor, General Psychiatry
    Phone: 732-235-7647
    Fax: 732-235-4220
    cherylg@rwjms.rutgers.edu

    Nidagalle Gowda, MD
    Assistant Professor
    gowdani@ubhc.rutgers.edu

    Sally I-Chun Kuo, PhD
    Assistant Professor

    Shawen Ilaria, MD
    Assistant Professor
    Phone: (732) 235-4870
    Fax: (732) 235-3923
    si175@rwjms.rutgers.edu

    Dorothy Isecke, MD
    Assistant Professor
    dorothy.isecke@rutgers.edu

    Morgan H. James, PhD
    Assistant Professor
    mhj32@ca.rutgers.edu
    James Lab

    Kenneth Kaufman, MD
    Professor
    Phone: (732) 235-7647
    Fax: (732) 235-7677
    kaufmakr@rwjms.rutgers.edu

    Wun Jung Kim, MD, MPH
    Professor
    Phone: (732) 235-4059
    Fax: (732) 235-3923
    wk138@rwjms.rutgers.edu

    Anna Kline, PhD
    Associate Professor
    klinean@rwjms.rutgers.edu

    Anna Konova, PhD
    Assistant Professor
    ak1677@ca.rutgers.edu
    Konova Lab

    Robert Lebeau, EdD
    Assistant Professor
    Phone: (732) 235-4129
    Fax: (732) 235-5280
    robert.lebeau@rwjms.rutgers.edu

    Alicia Lukachko, DrPH
    Assistant Professor

    Jeffrey Luci, PhD
    Assistant Professor

    Paul Manowitz, PhD
    Professor
    Phone: (732) 235-4347
    Fax: (732) 235-4430
    manowitz@rwjms.rutgers.edu

    Humberto Marin, MD
    Professor
    Phone: (732) 235-3280
    Fax: (732) 235-3478
    marinhu@ubhc.rutgers.edu

    Brett Millar, PhD
    Assistant Professor

    Jason Mintz, MD
    Assistant Professor

    Jennifer Mulle, PhD
    Associate Professor

    Zeba S. Nizam, MD
    Assistant Professor
    Phone: (732) 235-4909
    Fax: (732) 235-5630
    nizameze@ubhc.rutgers.edu

    Sherie Novotny, MD
    Assistant Professor
    Phone: (732) 235-4119
    Fax: (732) 235-3923
    novotnsl@ubhc.rutgers.edu

    Gargi Patel, MD
    Assistant Professor
    Phone: (732) 235-4433
    gpatel1@ubhc.rutgers.edu

    Carlos N. Pato, MD
    Professor
    Executive Chair of Psychiatry
    Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences
    Phone: (732) 235-4440
    Fax: (732) 235-5158
    carlos.pato@rutgers.edu

    Michele Pato, MD
    Professor - Awaiting Fac Appt
    Inaugural Director, Rutgers Center for Genomics of Psychiatric Health and Addiction
    mp1768@rwjms.rutgers.edu

    Christopher Pierce, PhD
    Professor

    Rachel Power, MD
    Assistant Professor

    Robert Randolph, MD
    Assistant Professor

    Hanin Rashid, PhD
    Assistant Professor

    Donald (Rusty) Reeves, MD
    Professor
    Phone: (973) 632-3194
    Fax (973) 690-5179
    rusty.reeves@rutgers.edu

    Mark Rossi, PhD
    Assistant Professor

    Jessica Salvatore, PhD
    Associate Professor
    Director, Genes, Environment, and Neurodevelopment in Addictions Program
    Center for Psychiatric Health and Genomics
    jessica.salvatore@rutgers.edu
    Faculty website: https://sites.rutgers.edu/jessica-salvatore/
    ORCiD Record: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5504-5087

    Carolyn E. Sartor, Ph.D.
    Associate Professor of Psychiatry
    Rutgers Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research

    Madhulika Sharma, MD
    Assistant Professor

    Marie Sizemore, PhD
    Assistant Professor

    Marc L. Steinberg, PhD
    Professor
    Phone: (732) 235-4341 | Fax: (732) 235-4277
    steinbml@rwjms.rutgers.edu

    Keith Stowell, MD, MSPH, MPA
    Associate Professor
    Chief Medical Officer
    Phone:(732) 235-4076
    krs235@ubhc.rutgers.edu

    Anthony Tobia, MD
    Professor
    Senior Vice Chair
    Phone: (732) 235-4440
    Fax: (732) 235-5158
    tobiaat@rwjms.rutgers.edu

    Adam Trenton, DO
    Associate Professor
    Phone: (732) 235-7647
    Fax: (732) 235-7677
    trentoaj@rwjms.rutgers.edu

    Leticia Velivis, MD
    Assistant Professor, Consultation Liaison
    Phone: 732-235-7647
    Fax: 732-235-7677
    leticia.velivis@rwjbh.org

    Jill M. Williams, MD
    Professor, Program Director
    (732) 235-4341
    Fax: (732) 235-4277
    williajm@rwjms.rutgers.edu

    Sarah Young, MD
    Associate Professor
    Phone: (732) 235-8400
    Fax: (732) 235-8395
    youngsm@ubhc.rutgers.edu

    David Zald, PhD
    Professor
    Director, Center for Advanced Human Brain Imaging Research
    dz268@rbhs.rutgers.edu
    Center For Advanced Human Brain Imaging Research

  • Mitchell Abrams, PsyD
    Clinical Assistant Professor

    Leslie A. Allen, Ph.D.    
    Adjunct Associate Professor

    Eric Arauz, M.L.E.R.
    Adjunct Instructor

    Michael Asher, Ph.D.
    Adjunct Assistant Professor

    Peter Aupperle, M.D., M.P.H.
    Clinical Professor

    Sherry Barron-Seabrook, M.D.
    Clinical Associate Professor

    Marsha Bates, Ph.D.
    Adjunct Associate Professor

    Theodore Batlas, Psy.D.
    Clinical Instructor

    Jeffrey Berman, M.D.
    Clinical Assistant Professor

    Edward Bilotti, M.D.
    Clinical Instructor

    John Blake, M.D.
    Clinical Assistant Professor

    Leonard Blank, Ph.D.
    Clinical Professor

    Allen Blasucci, Psy.D.
    Clinical Instructor

    Isiaka Bolarinwa, M.D.
    Clinical Assistant Professor

    Robert Bransfield, M.D.
    Clinical Associate Professor

    Ellen Brooks, M.D.
    Clinical Associate Professor

    Gary Brown, D.O.
    Clinical Assistant Professor

    Francis Cancellieri, M.D.
    Clinical Assistant Professor

    Patricia Carrington, Ph.D.
    Clinical Associate Professor

    Arthur Cederbaum, Ph.D.
    Adjunct Professor

    Richard Cevasco, Ed.D.
    Clinical Instructor

    Margaret Chan, Ph.D.
    Clinical Assistant Professor

    Kevin Chen, PhD, MPH
    Adjunct Associate Professor

    Raymond Chong, M.D.
    Clinical Instructor

    M. Salim Chowdhrey, M.B.B.S.
    Clinical Associate Professor

    Brian Chu, Ph.D.
    Adjunct Assistant Professor

    Marcia Clever, M.D.
    Clinical Assistant Professor

    Hayley Cohen, M.D.
    Clinical Assistant Professor

    Julie Coleman, B.S.N.
    Clinical Instructor

    Richard Contrada, Ph.D.
    Adjunct Professor

    Mark Cooperberg, Ph.D.
    Clinical Instructor

    Adriana Cordal, M.D.
    Clinical Associate Professor

    Daniel Cowen, M.D., Ph.D.
    Clinical Associate Professor

    Peter DeNigris, Psy.D.
    Clinical Instructor

    Ankur Desai, M.D.
    Clinical Instructor

    Kalyani Deshpande, M.D.
    Clinical Instructor

    Angelica Diaz-Martinez, Psy.D.
    Clinical Assistant Professor

    Jeffery Dickert, Ph.D., M.S.W.
    Clinical Assistant Professor

    Joseph Donnellan, M.D.
    Clinical Assistant Professor

    Suzanne Doubrava, M.D.
    Clinical Assistant Professor

    Stacy Doumas, M.D.
    Clinical Assistant Professor

    Jeffrey Dunn, M.D.
    Clinical Associate Professor

    Nancy Durant, M.D.
    Clinical Associate Professor

    Robert Edelberg, Ph.D.
    Adjunct Professor

    Irina Efremova, M.D.
    Clinical Assistant Professor

    Natarajan Elangovan, M.D.,M.P.H.
    Clinical Assistant Professor

    Shana Elga, M.D.
    Clinical Instructor

    Elizabeth Epstein, Ph.D.
    Clinical Associate Professor

    Janet Faust, Ph.D.
    Clinical Instructor

    Evan Feibusch, M.D.
    Clinical Associate Professor

    Ricardo Fernandez, M.D.
    Clinical Associate Professor

    Adriana Fitzsimmons, M.D.
    Clinical Assistant Professor

    Kunal Gandhi, M.B.B.S., M.P.H.
    Adjunct Instructor

    Daniela Ganescu, M.D.
    Clinical Instructor

    Peter Ganime, M.D.
    Clinical Assistant Professor

    Myron Gessner, M.D.
    Clinical Associate Professor

    Linda Gochfeld, M.D.
    Clinical Professor

    Arnold Goldman, M.D.
    Clinical Professor

    Alberto Goldwaser, M.D.
    Clinical Assistant Professor

    Paul Goodnick, M.D.
    Clinical Professor

    Vinobha Gooriah, M.D.
    Clinical Associate Professor

    Steven Gordon, Ph.D.
    Adjunct Associate Professor

    Kenneth Gould, M.D.
    Clinical Professor

    Jeffrey Green, M.D.
    Clinical Assistant Professor

    Daniel Greenwald, M.D.
    Clinical Associate Professor

    Peter Guarnaccia, Ph.D.
    Adjunct Associate Professor

    Lily Gutterman, M.D.
    Clinical Instructor

    Karen Haboush, Psy.D.
    Clinical Associate Professor

    Ruth Hamori, M.D.
    Clinical Associate Professor

    Peter Harris, M.D., Ph.D.
    Clinical Associate Professor

    Steven Hartman, Ph.D.
    Clinical Assistant Professor

    Marie Hasson, M.D.
    Clinical Assistant Professor

    Elaine Herzog, Ed.D.
    Clinical Associate Professor

    Paulette Hines, Ph.D.
    Clinical Assistant Professor

    Elizabeth Hogan, M.D.
    Clinical Assistant Professor

    Harriet Hollander, Ph.D.
    Clinical Assistant Professor

    Constanza Hoyos Nervi, Psy.D.
    Clinical Assistant Professor

    Emmanuel Hriso, M.D.
    Clinical Assistant Professor

    James Hutchins, M.D.
    Clinical Assistant Professor

    Lee Hyer, Ed.D.
    Adjunct Professor

    Michael Jackson, M.D.
    Clinical Assistant Professor

    Albert Jekelis. Ph.D.
    Clinical Assistant Professor

    Frank Jones Jr, M.D.
    Clinical Professor

    Jeffrey Kargman, M.D.
    Clinical Assistant Professor

    David Kassoff, M.D.
    Clinical Assistant Professor

    Daniel Kelleher, M.D.
    Clinical Assistant Professor

    Jennifer Kelly, Ph.D.
    Clinical Instructor

    Mujahid Khan, M.B.B.C.
    Clinical Instructor

    Madhurani Khare, M.D.
    Clinical Assistant Professor

    Neeta Kher, M.D.
    Clinical Assistant Professor

    Philippe Khouri, M.D.
    Clinical Professor

    Edward Kim, M.D.
    Clinical Associate Professor

    Debra Koss, M.D.
    Clinical Assistant Professor

    Jonathan Krejci, Ph.D.
    Clinical Assistant Professor

    Jay Kuris, M.D.
    Clinical Associate Professor

    Mary Laney, Ph.D.
    Clinical Assistant Professor

    Frances Levine, M.S.W., B.C.D.-P.
    Adjunct Instructor

    Steven Levine, M.D.
    Clinical Instructor

    Jordan Lieberman, M.D.
    Clinical Instructor

    Eric London, M.D.
    Clinical Assistant Professor

    Gene Lui, D.O.
    Clinical Instructor

    Hanny Mabrouk, M.D.
    Clinical Instructor

    Meroujan Maljian, M.D.
    Clinical Instructor

    Bonnie Markham, Ph.D.
    Adjunct Assistant Professor

    Peter Martindale, M.D.
    Clinical Instructor

    Charles Martinson, M.D., J.D.
    Clinical Assistant Professor

    Razia Matin, M.D.
    Clinical Associate Professor

    David Mayer, M.D.
    Clinical Professor

    Monica McGoldrick, M.S.W.
    Clinical Associate Professor

    David Mechanic, Ph.D.
    Adjunct Professor

    Barbara Jean Menzel, Psy.D.
    Clinical Assistant Professor

    Stanley Messer, Ph.D.
    Adjunct Professor

    Charles Meusburger, M.D.
    Clinical Assistant Professor

    Joseph Miller, Ph.D.
    Clinical Instructor

    Shula Minsky, Ed.D.
    Adjunct Associate Professor

    Arunesh Mishra, M.D.
    Clinical Assistant Professor

    Yuki Mukai, M.D.
    Clinical Assistant Professor

    David Nathan, M.D.
    Clinical Associate Professor

    Arnaldo Negron, M.D.
    Clinical Assistant Professor

    Ricardo Oasin, M.D.
    Clinical Assistant Professor

    James O'Neill, M.D.
    Clinical Associate Professor

    Patrick Pace, M.D.
    Clinical Associate Professor

    Jayanta Pal, M.D.
    Clinical Instructor

    Gahan Pandina, Ph.D.
    Clinical Associate Professor

    Robert Pandina, Ph.D.
    Adjunct Professor

    David Panzer, Psy.D.
    Clinical Associate Professor

    Howard Paul, Ph.D.
    Clinical Professor

    Ayman Ramzy, M.B.B.C.
    Clinical Associate Professor

    Robert Randolph, M.D.
    Clinical Instructor

    Steven Resnick, M.D.
    Clinical Assistant Professor

    Michael Ricketts, Ph.D.
    Adjunct Assistant Professor

    Marc Ritsema, D.O.
    Clinical Assistant Professor

    Doreen Robertson-Hoffmann, M.D.
    Clinical Assistant Professor

    Carla Rodgers, M.D.
    Clinical Assistant Professor

    Raymond Rosen, Ph.D.
    Adjunct Professor

    Gary Rosenberg, M.D.
    Clinical Associate Professor

    Leon Rosenberg, M.D.
    Clinical Assistant Professor

    Marc Rothman, M.D.
    Clinical Associate Professor

    Susan Rowley, M.D.
    Clinical Assistant Professor

    Anasuya Salem, M.B.B.S., M.P.H.
    Clinical Assistant Professor

    Laura Schafer, M.D.
    Clinical Associate Professor

    Matthew Schiff, M.D.
    Clinical Professor

    Esther Schlesinger, M.D.
    Clinical Assistant Professor

    Neal Schofield, M.D.
    Clinical Assistant Professor

    Moustafa Shafey, M.D.
    Clinical Assistant Professor

    Shailaja Shah, M.D.
    Clinical Assistant Professor

    Najmussahar Shaikh, M.D.
    Clinical Assistant Professor

    Vivian Shnaidman, M.D.
    Clinical Assistant Professor

    Michael Shore, M.D.
    Clinical Assistant Professor

    David Siegman, Psy.D.
    Clinical Assistant Professor

    David Sikowitz, M.D.
    Clinical Instructor

    Christine Skotzko, M.D.
    Clinical Associate Professor

    Jennifer Smith, Ph.D.
    Clinical Instructor

    Ramon Solhkhah, M.D.
    Clinical Associate Professor

    Olga Soto-Moise, M.D.
    Clinical Assistant Professor

    Galina Staroselsky, M.D.
    Clinical Assistant Professor

    Edward Steinberg, M.D.
    Clinical Assistant Professor

    Robert Stern, M.D.
    Clinical Associate Professor

    Stephanie Stern, M.D.
    Clinical Assistant Professor

    Lisa Sussman, Psy.D.
    Clinical Instructor

    Bradley Sussman, Ph.D.
    Clinical Assistant Professor

    Marshall Swartzburg, M.D.
    Clinical Associate Professor

    Edward Szteinbaum, M.D.
    Clinical Assistant Professor

    Anthony Tamburello, M.D.
    Clinical Assistant Professor

    Alan Tipermas, M.D.
    Clinical Associate Professor

    Edward Tobe, D.O.
    Clinical Associate Professor

    Evgeny Vaschillo, Ph.D.
    Adjunct Associate Professor

    Marilouise Venditti, M.D.
    Clinical Assistant Professor

    John Verdon, M.D.
    Clinical Associate Professor

    Joseph Vetrano, M.D.
    Clinical Assistant Professor

    Naomi Vilko, M.D.
    Clinical Assistant Professor

    Elizabeth Vreeland, M.S.N.
    Clinical Assistant Professor

    Melissa Warman, Ph.D.
    Clinical Instructor

    Gerald Weinstein, M.D.
    Clinical Associate Professor

    Kenneth Weiss, M.D.
    Clinical Professor

    Frank Wetzel, III, Ph.D.
    Clinical Instructor

    John Williams, M.D.
    Clinical Assistant Professor

    Jeffrey Wilson, M.D.
    Clinical Associate Professor

    Philip Witt, Ph.D.
    Clinical Associate Professor

    Jeanne Wurmser, Ph.D.
    Clinical Assistant Professor

    Xueming Ye, M.D.
    Clinical Instructor

    Catherine Yeager, Ph.D.
    Clinical Instructor

    David Zykorie, M.D.
    Clinical Assistant Professor

  • Sherry McCoy

    Secretary

    Administrative Offices

    Phone: (732) 235-4440

    Fax: (732) 235-5158

    Email: mccoysr@rwjms.rutgers.edu

    Vacant
    Senior Director of Administration
    Phone: (732) 235-4440

    Fax: (732) 235-5158

     

    Jose Cruz
    Mental Health Clinician
    Addiction Psychiatry 
    Phone: (732) 235-4497
    Fax: (732) 235-4277
    Email: cruzj3@rutgers.edu
     
    Patricia Dooley
    

    Program Manager 

    Addiction Psychiatry

    Phone: (732) 235-3361

    Fax: (732) 235-4277

    Email: dooleypc@rutgers.edu

    Cynthia Duncan-Robinson

    Program Assistant

    Administrative Offices

    Phone: (732) 235-4440

    Fax: (732) 235-5158

    Email: cynthia.d.robinson@rutgers.edu

    Christine Hogan

    Mental Health Clinician

    Huntington's Disease Clinic

    Phone: (732) 235-5993

    Fax: (732) 235-4220

    Email: hoganch1@rutgers.edu

    Dawn Dunn

    Program Coordinator
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
    Phone: (732) 235-4295

    Fax: (732) 235-3923

    Email: dmd472@rwjms.rutgers.edu

    David J. Gerak

    Program Coordinator 

    General Psychiatry Residency
    Phone: (732) 235-4433

    Fax: (732) 235-4649

    Email: dg723@rwjms.rutgers.edu

    Christopher Santiago
    Program Support Specialist 

    Medical Student Education

    Phone: (732) 235-4403

    Fax: (732) 235-4430

    Email: knollkm@rutgers.edu

    Dina Mattern

    Research Coordinator 

    Addiction Psychiatry 

    Phone: (732) 235-4053

    Fax: (732) 235-4277

    Email: dina.mattern@rutgers.edu

    Lucia Colon

    Principal Management Assistant

    Psychiatry

    Phone: (732) 235-5786

    Fax: (732) 235-4430

    Email: lc830@rwjms.rutgers.edu

    Michelle Smith

    Program Assistant

    General Psychiatry Residency

    Phone: (732) 235-4433

    Fax: (732) 235-4649

    Email: ms3943@rwjms.rutgers.edu

    Judy Rokeach

    Nurse Clinician 

    Huntington's Disease Clinic

    Phone: (732) 235-5993

    Fax: (732) 235-4220

    Email: jar464@rutgers.edu

    Naomi Tate-Riddick

    Clinical Services Representative

    Phone: (732) 235-7647

    Fax: (732) 235-4220

    Email: tatenr@rutgers.edu

Affiliations and Collaborations

Center of Alcohol and Substance Abuse Studies 
607 Allison Road 
Piscataway, NJ 08854 
Phone: 732-445-2190

Tobacco Dependence Program
125 Paterson Street, Suite 2300 
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Phone: 732-235-8212
Fax: 732-235-8297
Email: info@tobaccoprogram.org

University Behavioral Health Care
671 Hoes Lane West
Piscataway, NJ 08855 
Phone: 1-800-969-5300

Veteran Administration of New Jersey
151 Knollcroft Road
Mental Health & Behavioral Sciences
Lyons, NJ 07939
Telephone: 908-647-0180

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Research Interests

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  • Viwek Bisen, DO

    Interests:  psychosomatic medicine, suicide, economics of healthcare

    Dr. Bisen is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and is interested in the interface of medicine and psychiatry.  Some of his interests are addiction, suicide, and neuropsychiatric disorders, specifically focusing on evidence-based psychiatric care in a general hospital.  He is also interested in economics of healthcare, specifically sustainable healthcare innovation and entrepreneurship.

    E-mail: bisenvs@rwjms.rutgers.edu

  • Nina Cooperman, PhD

    Interests:  smoking cessation, drug use, and HIV

    Dr. Cooperman is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (RWJMS). Her recent work has focused on developing smoking cessation interventions for smokers in drug treatment, smokers with psychiatric and personality disorders, and smokers with HIV. She frequently presents at trainings conducted by faculty at the RWJMS Division of Psychiatry on Treating Tobacco Dependence in Behavioral Health Settings. She is the recipient of a National Institute on Drug Abuse Career Development Award to develop a smoking cessation intervention for opiate dependent smokers. Dr. Cooperman has been Principal or Co-investigator on several NIH funded studies, including projects investigating adherence to antiretroviral medication among people with HIV, smoking cessation interventions for smokers seeking treatment in the emergency department, and risky sexual behavior among women in Mumbai, India. She is a Motivational Interviewing Trainer; she has published many peer-reviewed research papers; and, she is a frequent presenter at national and international conferences.

    E-mail:  cooperna@rwjms.rutgers.edu

  • Roseanne Dobkin, PhD

    Interests:  Parkinson’s disease, depression, telemedicine

    Dr. Roseanne Dobkin is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, in Piscataway, NJ. She is also a practicing psychologist in New Jersey and Delaware. The majority of her research and clinical work over the past 13 years has focused on the treatment of the psychiatric complications (i.e., depression, anxiety, insomnia, cognition) in Parkinson’s disease (PD). She has also begun to systematically examine barriers to mental health care utilization in PD, as well as the use of telemedicine to leverage patient access to specialized mental health care. Dr. Dobkin's research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Patterson Trust Awards Program in Clinical Research, the Michael J.Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research, and the Health Services and Research Development Division (HSR&D) of the Veteran Affairs Administration.

    E-mail:  dobkinro@rwjms.rutgers.edu  

  • Molly Erickson, PhD

    Interests: schizophrenia, EEG, cognition

    Dr. Erickson’s program of research is focused on understanding the neural mechanisms that give rise to sensory and early cognitive impairment in schizophrenia, with a larger aim to understand how early abnormalities impact cognitive domains that are important for functional outcome and overall quality of life. 

    In pursuit of these aims, Dr. Erickson’s research includes the use of electroencephalography (EEG) and behavioral paradigms to understand basic neural and psychological processes associated with visual attention and working memory impairment among this patient population.  Additional areas of interest include the use of EEG to measure abnormalities in network organization during rest, as well as to understand the role of the glutamate signaling system in disrupted prediction formation and cognition more broadly.

    E-mail: me401@ubhc.rutgers.edu

  • Javier Escobar, MD

    Interests: Global Health, Psychiatric Diagnosis, Cross-Cultural Research.

    Dr. Javier Escobar is a Professor of Psychiatry and the Associate Dean for Global Health.  His has done research on integration of mental health into primary care and interventions for medically unexplained physical symptoms,   He is currently co-investigator, mentor and advisor for international research projects on bipolar disorder and severe psychoses (schizophrenia) on population isolates that have been published in JAMA, Brain and other leading journals.   His research has been funded by NIH and many Foundations.  Also, he is involved in research mentoring for new investigators.

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    E-mail: escobaja@rwjms.rutgers.edu

  • Michael Gara, PhD

    Interests:  Social cognition in psychopathpology, medically unexplained physical symptoms, ethnic disparities in psychiatric diagnosis; statistics: data mining,  psychometrics; clinical trials

    Dr. Gara is a Professor of Psychiatry and his ongoing research includes Ethnic Disparities in Psychiatric Diagnosis, particularly schizophrenia; Telepsychiatry for depression in Parkinson’s disease, and Treatment of Medically Unexplained Symptoms in Primary Care.  He serves as a consultant for NJ  State Trauma Informed Care Project, and as a statistician for a variety of other clinical trials.

    E-mail: garami@ubhc.rutgers.edu 

  • Gary Aston-Jones, PhD

    Interests:  brain neuromodulatory systems, cognitive performance, drug abuse, sleep and waking, and affective disorders

    Dr. Aston-Jones is a Professor of Psychiatry and the Director of the Rutgers Brain Health Institute.  He is interested in the role of locus coeruleus-noradrenergic system in behavior and cognitive processes.  He has conducted studies of the roles of brain modulatory systems in cognitive function throughout his career. He pioneered unit recordings from locus coeruleus (LC) noradrenergic neurons in behaving rats and monkeys, and currently use tetrodes and multi-electrode arrays to record from LC and cortical neurons in rats performing cognitive tasks. He developed prominent theories of LC function, culminating in the Adaptive Gain Theory.

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    E-mail: gsa35@ca.rutgers.edu

  • Kenneth Kaufman, MD

    Interests: Psychopharmacology, Epilepsy, Antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) in the treatment of psychiatric disorders, Sports psychiatry, Ethics

    Dr. Kaufman is a Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology and Anesthesiology with broad interests and associated eclectic publications.  He is a general psychiatrist specializing in affective (bipolar) disorders, psychiatric aspects of epilepsy, and the use of AEDs in the treatment of psychiatric disorders.  His focus on psychopharmacology has led to a better understanding of both unique efficacy of AEDs in psychiatry (“Antiepileptic drugs in the treatment of psychiatric disorders”).  His interests in ethics and sports and the World Anti-doping Code (WADC) have led to publications addressing the ethical use of pharmaceuticals in sports.  His interests in ethics and research design have led to publications on “Comparative bioethics in bipolar and epilepsy research” and “Ethical considerations in placebo-controlled randomized clinical trials.”  His interests in sports, epilepsy, sports psychiatry and psychiatric aspects of epilepsy have led to his co-authoring “Epilepsy, seizures, physical exercise and sports: A report from the ILAE Task Force on Sports and Epilepsy.”  He is on the editorial boards of British Journal of Psychiatry, Epilepsy & Behavior, and Annals of Clinical Psychiatry and is the Deputy Editor of BJPsych Open.

    E-mail: kaufmakr@rwjms.rutgers.edu

  • Brian Keane, PhD

    Interests: schizophrenia, visual perception, behavioral psychophysics, vision, schizophrenia, fMRI, psychophysics

    Dr. Keane is an Assistant Professor of psychiatry.  His overarching aim is to understand the mechanisms underlying normal object perception and how these mechanisms become compromised during serious mental illness.  He approaches the topic by conducting behavioral and neuroimaging investigations on healthy individuals, persons with schizophrenia, and related clinical populations.  A major finding from his research is that abnormal visual perception flags the presence, stage, or symptoms of schizophrenia, yielding insight into how the illness emerges and how it changes the brain over time.

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    E-mail: keanebp@ubhc.rutgers.edu

  • Anna Kline, PhD

    Interests:  trauma, substance abuse, co-occurring disorders

    Dr. Kline is an Associate Professor of psychiatry and her research interests focus on the intersection of trauma, mental illness and substance abuse, especially in military veterans.   Her research has included large-scale, epidemiological studies as well as clinical trials and demonstration projects exploring novel treatment interventions.  Studies have included an investigation of the mental health effects of military deployment among 3,000 New Jersey National Guard soldiers deployed to Iraq, an RCT testing a mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for veterans at risk of suicide, and a demonstration project testing a case management intervention for homeless veterans with co-occurring mental health and substance abuse disorders.  She has published papers on post-traumatic stress disorder, military suicide, co-occurring disorders and factors affecting treatment utilization and retention in at-risk populations.

    E-mail:  kline.anna@gmail.com

  • Paul Lehrer, PhD

    Interests: Biofeedback, Psychophysiology, Psychosomatics, Anxiety, Panic

    Dr. Lehrer is a Professor of Psychiatry.  His research emphasis has been on process involved in cognitive behavior therapy and psychophysiological therapies, more than on specific disorders. His recent research has involved psychophysiological and cognitive behavioral interventions for treating asthma, somatization, and panic.  He also has studied the psychophysiological dynamics of heart rate variability and heart rate variability biofeedback in various disorders, and has evaluated cognitive behavior therapy for patients with multiple somatic symptom (somatization) disorder and comorbid asthma and panic disorder. Over the years he also has evaluated psychophysiological and behavioral approaches to a variety of other disorders, including major depression, general anxiety and stress, performance anxiety, headaches, and fibromyalgia.  He has a particular interest in looking at heart rate variability as a sign of resilience in these and other disorders, and the use of heart rate variability biofeedback to improve resilience.

    E-mail: lehrer@rwjms.rutgers.edu

  • Paul Manowitz, PhD

    Interests:  Biological Basis of Mental Illness

    Dr. Paul Manowitz is a Professor of Psychiatry and is interested in the biochemistry and genetics of mental illness.  One of his main goals is the identification of genes that influence executive functioning in humans.  His research has identified a polymorphism of arylsulfatase A that occurs much more frequently in alcoholics than in normal control.  Tissue culture experiments have shown that this variant enzyme is mislocalized and much less metabolically stable compared with the normal, wild type enzyme.  In addition, he is studying cognitive endophenotypes related to schizophrenia that can be genetically analyzed.

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    E-mail: manowitz@rwjms.rutgers.edu

  • Humberto Marin, MD

    Interests:  clinical psychopharmacology, Huntington’s disease, mental aspects of neuropsychiatric disorders, culture and mental health, psychiatry in primary care.

    Dr. Marin is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and has been involved in clinical psychopharmacology research and research in mental aspects of Parkinson’s disease with Dr. Matthew Menza; in cultural psychiatry research and research in somatization disorders with Dr. Javier Escobar; in research in Huntington’s disease, currently with the HD Society; and in research on psychiatric treatment in primary care settings, currently with the Camden Coalition.

    E-mail: marinhu@ubhc.rutgers.edu

  • Sherrie Novotny, MD

    Interests:  Autism

    Dr. Novotny is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry.  Her research has focused on various aspects of autism and has included a variety of interventional trials.   These studies have been supported by the Department of Defense, NCCAM and NARSAD and the pharmaceutical industry.

    E-mail: novotnsl@ubhc.rutgers.edu

  • Ted Petti, MD, MPH

    Interests: Adolescence; Language disorders, non-suicidal self-injury; and communication disorders

    Dr. Petti is a Professor of Psychiatry whose current research interests involve self-perceived communication ability in children and teens who are receiving psychiatric services. He is analyzing a large data set of inpatient and therapeutic day school older children and teens concerning their perceptions of communication skills and deficits. Non-suicidal self injury is another major area of concern, most specifically around the deliberate ingestion of foreign objects.  Coping mechanisms in children and adolescents is another of his interests.  He has a large data set of youth receiving services in either an adolescent medicine clinic or an acute child and adolescent in patient unit as well as a group of teens receiving services for sickle cell disease.

    E-mail: pettita@ubhc.rutgers.edu

  • Rusty Reeves, MD

    Interests:  forensics issues

    Dr. Reeves is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and the Training Director of the Department of Psychiatry's forensic psychiatry fellowship.  He is also the Director of Psychiatry of Rutgers - University Correctional Health Care which provides the medical and mental health care to New Jersey's state prisoners.  Dr. Reeves' research focuses on the management and treatment of mental disorders in prisoners.  Dr. Reeves has published in textbooks and in peer-reviewed journals on, for example, involuntary medication in prisoners, and management of suicide risk among prisoners.

    E-mail: reevesdo@ubhc.rutgers.edu

  • Jessica E. Salvatore, Ph.D.

    Research Interests: alcohol and drug abuse, close relationships, gene-environment correlation, gene-environment interaction, familial transmission

    Dr. Salvatore is a developmental psychologist with training in psychiatric and behavioral genetics. Her primary area of focus is on how substance misuse affects and is affected by social factors and close relationships across the lifespan. Within this broad theme, she takes a genetically informed perspective, with the dual goals of delineating gene-environment interplay among substance use and relationship factors, and strengthening inferences in observational data.

    Faculty website: https://sites.rutgers.edu/jessica-salvatore/

    Email: jessica.salvatore@rutgers.edu

  • Dan Schneider, MD

    Interests:  Conversion disorder (Functional Neurological Syndrome), Dementia, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease

    Dr. Schneider is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology.  He is both a movement disorders specialist and a behavioral neurologist, and is interested in the research questions involving the psychiatric and cognitive manifestations of neurological disease.  He has run clinical trials involving Huntington’s disease and treatments of MCI in Parkinson's disease.  He also is engaging in a collaboration with one of the neuroscience labs at the Rutgers Newark campus to look at individual differences in learning deficits in Parkinson's disease, both before and after deep brain stimulation. Finally, he is interested in so-called functional or dissociative motor disorders and is currently working with our department of Physical and Occupational Therapy to create a program for treatment of these disorders.

    E-mail: schneidp@rwjms.rutgers.edu

  • Steve Silverstein, PhD

    Interests: schizophrenia, perception, cognition, retina

    Dr. Steven Silverstein is Director of Research, and Director of the Division of Schizophrenia Research at Rutgers University Behavioral Health Care (UBHC), and Professor of Psychiatry at Rutgers - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. He is the former Chair of the American Psychological Association’s Task Force on Serious Mental Illness, and an Executive Board member and President-Elect of the Society for Research in Psychopathology.  He has over 25 years of experience in treating people with schizophrenia, and has directed inpatient units and outpatient programs for this population.  This includes work with both chronic and first episode patients. Dr. Silverstein’s research interests are in the development of schizophrenia, perceptual and cognitive changes found in schizophrenia, and prediction of treatment response and relapse. He has over 185 publications related to schizophrenia, and is currently Principal Investigator (PI) on multiple NIMH and foundation grants involving assessment and treatment.

    E-mail: silvers1@ubhc.rutgers.edu

  • Marc Steinberg, PhD

    Interests:  tobacco, motivational interviewing, task persistence

    Dr. Steinberg conducts research on tobacco use and dependence, particularly in vulnerable populations such as those with mental illness and low socioeconomic status.  Dr. Steinberg is interested in psychosocial treatment development, proposed mediators of tobacco dependence treatment such as task persistence/ distress tolerance, and using motivational interviewing to encourage smokers to quit.  Dr. Steinberg is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers and is active in the Society for Research on Nicotine & Tobacco (SRNT).  He is currently Deputy Editor for the international peer reviewed journal, Nicotine & Tobacco Research.  Additional information on Dr. Steinberg's work can be found at the Tobacco Research & Intervention Lab website.

    Email: marc.steinberg@rutgers.edu

  • Anthony Tobia, MD

    Interests: innovative curriculum, popular culture, Psyfeld, REDRUM, FIDLER, psychosomatic medicine

    Dr. Anthony Tobia is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry.  He is involved in quality improvement and scholarly projects with the psychiatry residents at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School as well as independent projects and independently designed electives for medical students; Capstone projects for Masters students at the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences; and Capstone projects for undergraduate students in the College of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rutgers University.  His interests include innovative curriculum development, use of popular culture to teach, and psychosomatic medicine.

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    TWITTER: @ATobiaMD and @Psyfeld

    E-mail: tobiaat@rwjms.rutgers.edu

  • Adam Trenton, MD

    Interests:  Psychosomatic medicine, sports psychiatry, medical education

    Dr. Trenton is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry.  Dr. Trenton’s primary clinical and research interests are in Psychosomatic Medicine.  Some of his interests within the field include: physical manifestations of psychiatric illness, HIV psychiatry, and the provision of psychiatric care in the general medical hospital.  Dr. Trenton also has a strong interest in Sports Psychiatry and works in collaboration with the Rutgers Athletic Department to provide care to student athletes.  He is also interested in medical education, and enjoys teaching medical students and residents in didactic sessions and on hospital rounds.

    E-mail: trentoaj@rwjms.rutgers.edu

  • Jill Williams, MD

    Interests:   smoking, addiction, tobacco

    Dr. Williams is a Professor of Psychiatry and conducts research on co-occurring mental illness and addictions, particularly studies of medication assisted treatments (MAT).  This includes clinical studies of smoking in people with mental illness or other addictions as well as studies of system change interventions that increase tobacco treatment in the behavioral health setting.  

    E-mail: williajm@rwjms.rutgers.edu

Affiliations and Collaborations

Center of Alcohol and Substance Abuse Studies 
607 Allison Road 
Piscataway, NJ 08854 
Phone: 732-445-2190

Tobacco Dependence Program
125 Paterson Street, Suite 2300 
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Phone: 732-235-8212
Fax: 732-235-8297
Email: info@tobaccoprogram.org

University Behavioral Health Care
671 Hoes Lane West
Piscataway, NJ 08855 
Phone: 1-800-969-5300

Veteran Administration of New Jersey
151 Knollcroft Road
Mental Health & Behavioral Sciences
Lyons, NJ 07939
Telephone: 908-647-0180

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Adult Psychiatric Clinic

The Adult Psychiatry Clinic provides diagnosis and treatment of a wide variety of psychiatric disorders. Our providers are academic faculty members at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and are involved in cutting-edge research in diagnosis and treatment. Our psychiatrists and psychologists can also provide expert consultations and second opinions for individuals and their caregivers. A full range of psychological therapies, including cognitive behavioral therapy, biofeedback, supportive therapy and insight-oriented therapy are available. Sophisticated psychopharmacology approaches are also offered and tailored to the individual's situation.

Autism Clinic

The Autism Clinic is directed by Sherie Novotny, MD, a child and adolescent psychiatrist and pediatrician at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. She has trained at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in pediatrics, psychiatry and child psychiatry. Her previous appointment was with Dr. Eric Hollander at the Seaver Autism Research Center at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in Manhattan, where she assisted in several research protocols. She has expertise in treating the behavioral symptoms of autism spectrum disorders. She is currently running several clinical treatment trials for children with these disorders. These trials include medications for behavioral problems as well as metabolic imbalance.

Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology Program

The Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology Program provides psychiatric evaluations for the pharmacologic management of childhood mental disorders. It accepts referrals from other physicians and mental health professionals for the consultation and/or joint management of cases. Fellows and residents in training provide care under the direct supervision of the attending physician/faculty member.

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