Medical High School

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Bassem El Bahtity

Education

**/**** **/**** ******* Memorial Hospital/University of Miami

Geriatric psychiatry fellowship

Miami, Florida

Presided as Chief fellow in program

Worked at both the Miami VA and the Geriatric intensive

medical/psychiatric unit, at Jackson memorial hospital. In the Miami

VA, responsible for Nursing home care, the Consultation liason

psychiatry service and the outpatient Geriatric psychiatry clinics.

Supervised and instructed University of Miami medical students and

Jackson residents throughout their rotations in these services.

07/2006 06/2010 Albert Einstein College of Medicine at the

Adult psychiatry residency Long Island Jewish/Zucker Hillside Hosp.

Queens, New York

08/2002 05/2006 SUNY Downstate College of Medicine [ City,

State ]

Doctor of Medicine (MD)

Brooklyn, New York

09/1997 06/2001 University of

Rochester

Bachelor of Arts (BA)

*Graduated Magna Cum Laude (gpa 3.84)

Rochester, New York

MAJOR: Psychology and Pre medical studies

MINOR/CLUSTER: Women’s studies and English Literature

09/93 06/1997 Alexander Central School

High school diploma with honors

*Graduated valedictorian of class (overall avg 99.0%)

Alexander, New York

work experience

07/01/09 07/01/10 Rikers Island Prison Health Services

Queens, New York

Psychiatrist

I worked as a per diem Psychiatrist at this facility, providing

psychiatric assessment, diagnostic evaluations, and medication

management evaluations for detainees at the Rikers Prison health

system.

07/01/08 06/10 Long Island Jewish Hospital

Queens, New York

Psychiatrist

I worked as a Senior psychiatrist at this hospital and its respective

Emergency room, providing psychiatric assessments, diagnostic

evaluations, medication management and dispositional statuses for both

children/adolescent, adult and geriatric patients. I also was the Senior

psychiatrist to complete and supervise evaluations on the

Consultation/liason psychiatry service. (Psychiatric consultations on

the medical floors)

05/25/2003 08/25/2003 Batavia Radiation Oncology [ City,

State ]

Batavia, New York

Radiation Oncology medical assistant

Worked with a team of Radiation Oncologists and Pathologists who

educated me in learning how to properly diagnose, stage and treat

different carcinomas that the patients at the clinic received treatment

for. I conducted initial interviews with the patients (initial histories)

when they arrived at the clinic, and with the Radiation Oncologist, I

helped acclimate them, emotionally, to the eventual treatment plan that

they would receive. (internship between first and second yr of medical

school)

12/2001 06/2002 Attica Central School District [ City, State ]

Attica, New York

Substitute teacher

I worked as a substitute teacher for grades Kindergarten 12th, in a

local school district near Buffalo, NY. Five days of the week, I would

formulate lesson plans/curriculum that the Full time teachers would

like me to take on with the students. Subjects included Chemistry,

Biology, Calculus, English and Global Studies. I also helped start a

youth intervention after school program for the adolescents in the

school district. (Open forum for their issues in a non judgemental

setting)

Volunteer experience

Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (11/2001 present) New York, NY

As a type one diabetic myself, I run support group/family sessions for

newly diagnosed type one diabetics (primarily child and adolescents), and

their family members to help them emotionally and physically cope with

their child’s new condition.

Strong Memorial Hospital Pediatrics (09/2000 06/2001) Rochester, NY

During my undergraduate studies, volunteered on an inpatient Pediatrics

unit where I was able to join the medical team and be involved in their

treatment planning, for the children and adolescents that were being

treatred on the floors.

Arab Rochester Youth Center (07/1997 06/2001) Rochester, NY

I helped teach ages 5 15, how to read and write Colloquial Arabic, as I

participated in the same program myself at that age, which is how I

became proficient in the language.

Membership and honorary/professional societies

Member of the American Medical Association

Member of the American Psychiatric Association

Member of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry

Member of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law

Member of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Member of the American Medical Student Association

Former Vice President of the Downstate Psychiatric Society and the

Downstate Family Practice Organization

Member of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation

Interests and activities

Passion for singing and performing in musical theatre; in past have

performed in multiple productions in the Buffalo city theatre arena such as

Camelot, Damn Yankees, and Into the Woods; also love reading

biographies, watching political documentaries, and weight training several

times a week.

Awards received/Languages

Graduated Valedictorian of high school class (gpa 4.0)

Graduated Magna Cum Laude from University of Rochester

Received the Bausch and Lomb Scholarship ($10,000) for excellence in

Math and Science (University of Rochester)

Received the Xerox Scholarship ($5000) for excellence in arts and

humanities (University of Rochester)

Selected to “America Sings” country wide festival in Washington D.C.

(national vocal concert of select singers throughout the country)

Two high school records (still not broken) in Track and Field (Triple

Jump and the 400 Hurdles)

Voted Scholastic athlete of the school district (one student voted per high

school class upon graduation)

Fluency in Arabic (can read, write and speak), and also proficient in

Spanish

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