Medical Mental Health

Melanie Erin Spritz DO

Personal Information

Employment

Hospital Affiliations

Melanie Erin Spritz DO

Residence Address 8318 Siciliano Street

Boynton Beach, Florida 33427

Phone number 718-***-****

Email *********@***.***

Florida State Licensure OS12860 exp 3/31/18

NYS Registration # 5034587

Date of Medical licensure 10/31/14 New York State

License Number 215648-1

DEA Number BS4218651

Fort Lauderdale Hospital

1601 East Las Olas Boulevard

Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33301

Crisis Stabilization Unit and Partial Hospitalization Program’

3/6/16-6/3/16

South County Mental Health Center

16158 South Military Trail

Delray Beach Florida 33484

Attending Psychiatrist

Outpatient / Crisis Stabilization Unit

12/1/14- 9/25/15

Ogdensburg Wellness Center

St Laurence Psychiatric Center

1 Chimney Point Drive

Ogdensburg NY 13359

Locum Tenens Psychiatrist

12/23/13-9/26/14

Carthage Hospital

Carthage Area Behavioral Health Center

Staff Psychiatrist – Adult

Outpatient and Consultation/Liaison for Hospital

Locum Tenens for Jackson and Coker

7/15/12 to 11/2/12

Interfaith Medical Center

Department of Psychiatry

Psychiatric Emergency Room Physician’

7/5/11 to 11/9/11

PHS/ Rikers Island

PHS Medical PC

Dept. of Mental Health

Senior Psychiatrist RMSC till 10/8/10

AMKC /C71 10/8/10 t0 3/11

Senior Psychiatrist duties include

Providing individual clinical supervision to facility psychiatrists including

Input into psychiatric evaluations

Overseeing clinical management, treatment and disposition of all

Patients receiving psychiatric services in the facility

Assists in the recruitment, selection, training and development of

Psychiatrists

Provides psychiatric evaluation and treatment

Sets appropriate timeframes for the provision of psychiatric care within

The facility

Engages in individual and group patient care

Acts as a Liaison with medical staff to ensure proper patient care

Participates in the development of treatment plans and changes in the

Course of treatment

Orients new psychiatrists to the new facility assigned

Oversees and maintains proper levels of psychiatric staffing in facility

Participates in case conferences and Morbidity and Mortality conferences

Reviews charts for quality of care and documentation of psychiatric services in assigned facility in keeping with contracted performance indicators

Reviews all discharges and transfers to higher or lower levels of care

Provides direct supervision and oversight of psychiatric nurse practioners and psychiatric physician assistants in the facility

Participates in utilization review

Assists in case conferences on difficult patients

Performs annual clinical performance evaluation for psychiatrists

Participates in rounds, team meetings, group and individual supervisions

Provides documentation and data for statistical reports

Collaborates with the unit chief on programmatic issues

Employed from 6/08 to 3/11

Long Island College Hospital

Department of Psychiatry

Partial Hospitalization Program

Attending Physician

Departmental representative to the Hospital wide Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee

Departmental representative for Performance Improvement Project

Drug Utilization Review on Zyprexa with the parameters of Glycosolated Hemoglobin, Fasting Blood Glucose and Lipid levels

Attended interdepartmental meetings on Quality Assurance and Incident Review Management

6/21/07-11/21/07

Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center

Dept of Psychiatry

Attending Physician

Inpatient Unit

9/06-2/07

Community Psychiatry under the umbrella or Ralph Aquila MD and the Storefront Clinic at the various institutions

Housing Works

HIV/AIDS infected individuals in a day treatment program for two days a week

11/05-2/06

The Educational Alliance – substance affected individuals taking place at all three residences and treatment facilities

11/05-2/06

Affiliated with St Luke’s- Roosevelt Hospital

Kingsboro Psychiatric Center

Attending physician

Inpatient Unit - Forensic Unit

6/05-7/05

St Luke’s- Roosevelt Hospital Center

Department of Psychiatry

Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program

Attending physician

Diagnosed and treated patients in psychiatric emergency room, mobile crisis team and extended observation beds( where patients were under observation for up to 72 hours )

Supervised residents in their training in the Emergency Room

3/02-3/05

Brooklyn Hospital-People with AIDS Treatment and Health Program

Attending Psychiatrist

Treated HIV/AIDS infected individuals with co morbid psychiatric illness

3/01-8/01

Downstate University

Department of Pediatrics

Health Education for Adolescents and Teens

Attending Psychiatrist

Treated HIV and at risk adolescents for co morbid psychiatric problems

3/01-3/03

Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center

Department of Psychiatry

Attending Physician

Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program

Covered the Psychiatric Emergency Room as needed

Served as treating psychiatrist on Two Mobile Crisis teams

A geriatric mobile crisis team serving a geriatric population that had psychiatric illnesses that were too acute for traditional outpatient settings

Mobile crisis team

Also served as psychiatric consultant to the following shelters under contract to Brookdale Hospital

Liberty Avenue Women’s Shelter- made initial assessments as well as directed ongoing treatment

Kingsboro Men’s Shelter – made initial assessments as well as directed ongoing treatment

7/00-2/01

RxTemps

Blue Bell Pennsylvania

IV Pharmacist/Chemotherapy Pharmacist

During breaks from medical school as well as during post internship year

worked as pharmacy temporary filling in at hospitals and private companies mixing and dispensing intravenous solutions as well as oncology chemotherapy

1987-95

Delta T Groups

Lecturer on Oncology Chemotherapy

Lecturer on Intravenous solutions, total parenteral nutrition and total additive nutrition

During breaks from medical school as well as during post internship year worked as a pharmacy temporary lecturing on the above topics

1987-1995

Albert Einstein Medical Center Northern Division

Nutritional Support Pharmacist/Oncology and Investigational Drug Pharmacist/Supervisor

Transplant Pharmacist/Supervisor

Mixed solutions and dispensed solutions for nutritional support such as total parenteral nutrition,and total additive nutrition for adults

Mixed and dispensed intravenous oncology solutions

Mixed and dispensed intravenous medications for transplantation

Supervised other pharmacist in the mixing and dispensing of Intravenous medications for transplant, oncology and investigational drug use

1985-1987

Rite Aid Corporation

Philadelphia Pennsylvania

Retail pharmacist

1984-85

Holy Redeemer Hospital

Philadelphia Pennsylvania

Pharmacy Student Intern

Education

Residency

Internship

Medical School

Post-Baccalaureate

Pharmacy School

Undergraduate Education

State University of New York /Downstate Medical Center

Brooklyn NY

Dual Residency Program in Internal Medicine and Psychiatry

Obtained dual residency certificate in Internal Medicine and Psychiatry

7/95-6/00

St Joseph’s Medical Center/ Girard Medical Center

Philadelphia Pennsylvania

Osteopathic Rotating Internship

7/93-6/94

University of Health Sciences College of Osteopathic Medicine

Presently named Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences

Kansas City Missouri

Obtained medical education and DO degree

1988-93

Medical College of Pennsylvania/Bryn Mawr College

Bryn Mawr Pa

Graduate courses in Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Cardiovascular Physiology; post baccalaureate program

1985-87

Temple University School of Pharmacy

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

B.Sc degree in Pharmacy

7/81-6/84

Temple University

Philadelphia, Pa

B.A. degree in Biology

6/77-6/81

Awards received

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June 1999 Metropolitan Community Church of New York

Honored as Health care practitioner to the transgendered in a special service dedicated to the transgendered

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