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David J. Hellerstein, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
Director of Medical Communications, Columbia U. Department of Psychiatry,
Columbia University Medical Center
Research Psychiatrist,
New York State Psychiatric Institute
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Dr. David J. Hellerstein is Director of Medical Communications at the Columbia University Department of Psychiatry. He is a research psychiatrist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY, and Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.
He was formerly the Clinical Director of the Institute. He specializes in the treatment of mood and anxiety disorders, with a particular focus on the medication treatment of dysthymia, or low-grade chronic depression.
Dr. Hellerstein is also Director of the Mood Disorders Research Program in New York, part of the Depression Evaluation Service, which conducts studies on the medication treatment of chronic depression.
He has published over 50 scientific articles and book chapters on subjects including the treatment of dysthymic disorder, supportive psychotherapy, and the use of group therapy in schizophrenia.
Dr. Hellerstein has also received national recognition for his literary writing, and has been awarded the Pushcart Prize and several MacDowell Colony Fellowships. His books include Battles of Life and Death (essays about medical training), Loving Touches (a novel), and A Family of Doctors (a memoir of five generations of doctors in one family), and his journalism has been published in magazines including Harper’s and The New York Times Magazine.
A Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, he has served as President of the New York County District Branch of the American Psychiatric Association.
He has a private practice in psychiatry and psychopharmacology.
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Undergraduate: Harvard College, A.B. , 1976
Medical School: Stanford University Medical School, M.D., 1980
Internship: New York Hospital/Cornell Medical Center, Psychiatry, 1980 - 1981
Residency: New York Hospital/Cornell Medical Center, Psychiatry, 1981 - 1984
Fellowship: NY State Psychiatric Institute , Public Psychiatry , 1984 - 1985
Board Certifications: American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
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• Psychopharmacology of chronic depression
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Address:
NYS Psychiatric Institute
Room 3308 Unit/Box:#51
1051 Riverside Drive
New York, NY 10032
Phone: 212-305-9076
Fax: 212-543-5326
hellers@pi.cpmc.Columbia.edu
Personal Homepage
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1) Medication treatment of dysthymic disorder (chronic depression)
2) Research on supportive psychotherapy as an active treatment modality
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1. Hellerstein DJ: Combining supportive psychotherapy with medication. The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Psychotherapeutic Treatments in Psychiatry, ed. Glen Gabbard, section on Supportive Psychotherapy, section editor Arnold Winston. , American Psychiatric Press, , 2007
2. Hellerstein DJ: A Family of Doctors, Hill & Wang (hardcover), Ivy Books (paperback), New York, NY, 1994/1995
3. Hellerstein DJ, Kocsis JH, et al.: Double-blind comparison of sertraline, imipramine, and placebo in the treatment of dysthymia: effects on personality.. American Journal of Psychiatry 2000;157: 1436-1444
4. Hellerstein DJ, Almeida G, Devlin MJ, Mendelsohn N, Helfand S, Dragatsi D, Kelso J, Miranda R, Capitelli L: Assessing obesity and other related health problems of mentally ill Hispanic patients in an urban outpatient setting. Psychiatric Quarterly 2007
5. Hellerstein DJ: Aripiprazole as an adjunctive treatment in refractory major depression.. Progress in Neuropsychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry 2004;28: 1347-1348
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