STEPHEN PAUL FERBER, MD

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DATE PREPARED: 02/20/2019

EDUCATION & RESIDENCY

**** – Present Columbia University Medical Center, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY 2011 - 2015 MD, Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine (FIU HWCOM), Miami, FL

• Class rank: Top 20%

• USMLE Step 1 score: 257 (91st percentile)

• USMLE Step 2 CK score: 264 (91st percentile)

2007 - 2011 BA, Carleton College, Northfield, MN

• Psychology, cum laude

CERTIFICATIONS & SKILLS

2019 - Present Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, New York, NY Supervised by Ziv Cohen, MD

• Completed a six-month TMS elective rotation at Dr. Cohen’s Manhattan private practice.

2018 - Present Electroconvulsive Therapy, Columbia University Medical Center, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York State Psychiatric Institute Supervised by Joan Prudic, MD and Josh Berman, MD, PhD

• Completed a twelve-month ECT elective rotation with over 100 cases performed.

• Completed the January 2019 Columbia CME ECT certification course.

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EMPLOYMENT

2017 - Present Weekend House Physician, St. Vincent’s Hospital, Westchester, Harrison, NY

• Moonlighting position - responsibilities included responding to acute issues on the adult, geriatric, child/adolescent, and substance use inpatient units, accepting psychiatric transfers from local hospitals, and evaluating patients for admission at the on-site psychiatric emergency department.

2017 – Present Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program, New York-Presbyterian Hospital

• Moonlighting position - responsibilities included evaluating patients in the emergency department and responding to medical floor consults.

2017 – 2018 Weekend House Physician, Northwell Health – Northern Westchester Hospital, Mt. Kisco, NY; Phelps Memorial Hospital, Sleepy Hollow, NY

• Moonlighting position – responsibilities included responding to acute issues on the adult inpatient unit, evaluating patients in the emergency department, and responding to medical floor consults.

EDUCATIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS

2019 - Present Course Instructor, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY

• Led a five-month course teaching Columbia University medical students (MS1’s) how to conduct a psychiatric interview. 2015 - Present Didactic Instructor, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons

• Designed and presented Columbia University medical students with the lecture, The Neurobiology of Schizophrenia, during their psychiatry clerkship.

2018 Course Instructor, Residency Program in General Psychiatry, Harlem Hospital Center, New York, NY

• Designed and led the Introduction to Psychopharmacology Course for PGY-1 and PGY-2 residents.

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2015, 2017 - 2018 Mock Interviews, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons

• Conducted mock interviews with Columbia medical students applying for a psychiatry residency.

HONORS & AWARDS

2017 Resident Teaching Award Finalist

• This award is given by Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons medical students to residents who display excellence in the area of teaching medical students on their clinical rotations.

2017 Circle of Excellence Award

• This award is given by Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons medical students to residents who display “extraordinary humanism and tireless dedication to both patients and medical students”. The award was presented at the Steven Z. Miller Student Clinician Ceremony for the Class of 2019. 2014 Psychiatry Clerkship Student of the Year Award

• This award is given by the FIU HWCOM psychiatry faculty to the third-year medical student who demonstrates excellence in the psychiatry clerkship.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE - ABSTRACTS - PRESENTATIONS

2017 - 2018 Principal Investigator, Columbia University Medical Center/New York- Presbyterian Hospital

Worked with Ludwing Florez-Salamanca, MD

• Our study, “Pre-Visit Engagement as a way of Decreasing No-Show Rate to Integrated Psychiatry Appointments in Large Primary Care Settings: A Proposal,” investigated how clinicians can engage patients referred by their primary care physicians to a co-located integrated psychiatric clinic.

• Poster was presented at the American Psychiatric Association Annual Conference on May 7, 2018.

• Poster was presented at IPS: The Mental Health Services Conference October 5, 2018.

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2012 - 2015 Principal Investigator, FIU HWCOM

Supervised by Nabil El Sanadi, MD and Juan Manuel Lozano, MD, MSc

• Our study, “How Emergency Medicine Physicians’ Admittance Rates Correlate with Risk Preference and the Framing Effect,” elucidates the extent to which risk tolerance and anticipated regret affect emergency room physicians’ decisions to admit patients.

2012 Clinical Research Assistant, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Richmond, VA

Supervised by Anne Hudak, MD, MSCS

• Analyzed recent literature for the NIH-funded study, Exercise in Depressed Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Survivors.

• Conducted the initial literature review for a planned study investigating the role of creatine in preventing/reducing the severity of the neuropsychological sequelae of traumatic brain injury.

MEDICAL ACTIVITIES & SERVICE

2012 - 2015 Mammography Art Initiative, FIU HWCOM

• Helped implement a community-based intervention designed to improve breast health of underserved women in Miami-Dade County by providing free mammograms and ongoing educational forums.

2012 - 2014 Medical Students Working to Improve Society and Health, FIU HWCOM

• Recruited local physician volunteers to supervise medical students at a free clinic.

2013 Miami Rescue Mission, FIU HWCOM

• Led an after-school program educating underserved children on nutrition and health.

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

2019 - Present Member, International Society for ECT and Neurostimulation 2014 - Present Member, American Psychiatric Association

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