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Jonathan Slater, M.D.
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry (in Pediatrics)
Director, Pediatric Psychiatry Consultation-Liaison Service,
Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of New York
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Dr. Slater has directed The Pediatric Psychiatry Consultation-Liaison Service since 1992, and this service provides evaluations and brief treatment for children and adolescents hospitalized at the Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of New York, who have a primary psychiatric disorder, psychiatric complications of a medical illness, complicated neuropsychiatric syndromes, medical illnesses or symptoms thought to have significant psychiatric components, and patients with adjustment or compliance problems. The Service also provides outpatient services to medically-ill children in the recently opened Pediatric Behavioral Medicine Clinic. This clinic, the first of its kind in the metropolitan New York City area, opened in July 2001 and serves outpatient pediatric medical patients with co-morbid psychopathology. Since taking over the service in 1992, inpatient and outpatient consultations and treatment have expanded under Dr. Slater’s direction, with an average of 250 inpatient and outpatient visits total seen per month.
During this time, Dr. Slater created liaisons exist to a variety of inpatient clinical services in Babies Hospital, including the pulmonary, nephrology, neurology, pain, and hematology-oncology services. Psychiatric evaluations are a routine part of the clinical evaluations for heart, bone marrow, and kidney transplantation. These liaisons now interface with the outpatient Pediatric Behavioral Medicine Clinic.
Dr. Slater’s book, entitled Tell Me Where it Hurts, which is a parenting book about somatization disorders in children, was published in the fall of 2002. In 2002, Dr. Slater also authored book chapters on psychopharmacology in medically ill children, psychiatric aspects of transplantation, and psychiatric issues in children with cancer.
An article written by Dr. Slater entitled “Deciphering Emotional Aches and Physical Pains in Children” will appear in the June issue of Pediatric Annals. Lastly, in 2001, Dr. Slater created an after-school program geared specifically for children with special needs, which largely serves children with neuropsychiatric disorders (see www.onceuponariver.com) in Irvington, New York, which serves the community in Westchester County.
Dr. Slater’s contributions to education have been extensive. He teaches the Child Development course to the second-year P&S students (based on a chapter he wrote on Life Development for the textbook used in the second year medical student psychiatry course), does weekly attending rounds with pediatric housestaff, and is the leader of a weekly preceptorship with the third-year P&S students rotating through the pediatric service. Weekly rounds and a weekly didactic seminar alternating with a clinical case conference have continued on the Consultation Service, and 4th-year P&S students have participated as part of their elective time. Dr. Slater presents core lectures on psychopathology and psychopharmacology in to the pediatric residents as well.
Dr. Slater has been the recipient on numerous awards. As a Child Psychiatry Fellow, he was awarded the Viola Bernard Award on two occaions and used funding from this award to create a documentary film about children receiving heart transplants, which continues to be used by families awaiting heart transplantation. He later was the contributing producer for an HBO film, “Heart of a Child,” which was a documentary about a girl who received a heart-lung transplantation. Dr. Slater’s teaching efforts have been rewarded both at the medical center, when he received the Medical Student Teacher of the Year in 1997, and at the national level, when he received Nancy C.A. Roeske Certificate of Recognition for Excellence in Medical Student Education in May 2003 (awarded by the American Psychiatric Association).
From a research standpoint, Dr. Slater was the recipient of a Departmental Research Grant to teach Child Psychiatric Interviewing and related topics to Pediatric Residents, Department of Pediatrics, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center; the Principal Investigator in Collaborative Study (1992-93) with Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center entitled, Psychological Adjustment of Cancer Survival in Children and Adolescents; and the Principal Investigator of grant from the Rosenthal Center for Complementary Medicine (1995-97) entitled, “The Effect of Clowns on Decreasing Physiological and Psychological Indicators of Distress in Children and Adolescents Undergoing Cardiac Catheterization.”
Dr. Slater has a private practice specializing in pediatric psychopharmacology in Irvington, New York.
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Undergraduate: Harvard University, B.A., 1981
Medical School: Columbia University, M.D., 1985
Internship: Overlook Hospital, Transitional, 1986 - 1987
Residency: New York State Psychiatric Institute, Psychiatry, 1987 - 1990
Residency: New York State Psychiatric Institute, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 1990-1992
Board Certifications: American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
Subspeciality Certifications: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Psychosomatic Medicine
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• Anxiety disorders / Depression and bipolar disorder
• Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders
• Neuropsychiatry/cognitive disorders
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Address:
One Bridge Street
Suite 24
Irvington, NY 10533
USA
Phone: 212-305-7102
Fax: 212-305-6614
jas14@Columbia.edu
Personal Homepage
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1. Slater JA, Cutler J: Life development. In Essentials of Psychiatry, Cutler J, Marcus E, eds., WB Saunders, , 1998
1. Slater JA: Psychiatric aspects of organ transplantation in children and adolescents. In Lewis M, ed, Child and Adolescent Clinics of North America, WB Saunders, , July, 1994
1. Slater JA: Psychiatric issues in pediatric bone marrow and solid organ transplantation. In Lewis M. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: A Comprehensive Textbook, 2nd Edition, William and Wilkins, , 1996
1. Slater JA: Psychiatric Issues in Pediatric Cancer. In Lewis M. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: A Comprehensive Textbook, 3rd Edition, William and Wilkins, , 2002
1. Slater JA: Psychiatric issues in pediatric bone marrow, stem cell, and solid organ transplantation. In Lewis M. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: A Comprehensive Textbook, 3rd Edition, William and Wilkins, , 2002
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FACULTY ONLY
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