Faculty Profiles

Adragna, Michael

MD

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry

Specialty/Research Focus: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; Psychiatry
Amin, Shaily

M.D.

Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry

Specialty/Research Focus: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; Medical Education Research; Vitamin D; Psychiatry
Anker, Jeffrey

MD

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry

Specialty/Research Focus: Behavioral Health; Clinical Outcomes; Clinical Pharmacology; Cognitive Behavioral Therapy; Drug abuse; Psychiatry; Substance Use Disorder
Antonius, Daniel

PhD

Director, Division of Forensic Psychiatry; Director, Division of Psychology

Specialty/Research Focus: Children and Adults; Clinical Neurophysiology; Forensic Psychiatry; Psychiatry
Bakhai, Yogesh

MD

Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry

Specialty/Research Focus: Addictions; Geriatric Psychiatry; Psychiatry
Brooks, Victoria

MD

Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry; CPEP Medical Director of Education and Community Coordination; Emergency Psychiatry Fellowship Program Director

Specialty/Research Focus: Psychiatry
Camp, Charles

MD

Director of Medical Student Education, Psychiatry; Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry; Medical Director, ECMC Partial Hospitalization Program

Coggins, Evelyn

MD

Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry/Chief Psychiatrist Erie County Forensic Mental Health

Specialty/Research Focus: Forensic Psychiatry; Psychiatry
Cogswell, Alex

PhD

Associate Professor / Training Director of Psychology Doctoral Internship

Specialty/Research Focus: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; Psychiatry
Cummings, Michael

MD

Vice Chair and Assistant Professor

Specialty/Research Focus: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; Psychiatry
Daurignac, Elsa

PhD

Research Assistant Professor

Specialty/Research Focus: Psychiatry
DelRegno, Paula

MD

Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry & Program Director of Residency Training in Psychiatry

Specialty/Research Focus: Psychiatry
Dermen, Kurt

PhD

Senior Research Scientist

Specialty/Research Focus: Addictions; Behavioral Health; Clinical Psychology; Cognitive Behavioral Therapy; Drug abuse; Substance Use Disorder
DiGiacomo, Michael

Associate Director of Medical Education & Clinical Assistant Professor

Dimeglio, John

M.D.

Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry & Outpatient Psychiatrist

Elberg, Zhanna

MD

Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry

Specialty/Research Focus: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; Psychiatry
Ficarro, Stephanie

PsyD

Research Assistant Professor

Specialty/Research Focus: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; Clinical Psychology; Forensic Psychiatry; Psychiatry; Psychology
Gokhale, Vinayak

MD

Clinical Assistant Professor

Specialty/Research Focus: Psychiatry
Green, Abigail

MD

Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry

Specialty/Research Focus: Psychiatry
Guppenberger, Michael

MD

Clinical Assistant Professor

Specialty/Research Focus: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; Forensic Psychiatry; Psychiatry
Haak, Jennifer

MD

Associate Professor of Psychiatry

Specialty/Research Focus: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; Psychiatry
Halbreich, Uriel

MD

Professor and Director, BioBehavioral Research

Specialty/Research Focus: Behavioral pharmacology; Antidepressants; Behavioral Health; Behavioral Medicine; Endocrinology; Health Disparities Research; Clinical Research; Depression; Neurobiology; Pharmacotherapy; Public Health; Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism; Psychiatry; Psychosomatic Medicine; Social Determinants of Health; Stress; Women’s Health
Hanrahan, Laura

MD

Clinical Assistant Professor

Specialty/Research Focus: Psychiatry
Improta, John

MD

Director of Day to day operations in Cpep

Specialty/Research Focus: Psychiatry
Kaye, David

MD

Professor of Psychiatry and Executive Director, Project TEACH

Specialty/Research Focus: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; Psychiatry
Leidenfrost, Corey

PhD

Research Assistant Professor/Associate Training Director of Psychology Doctoral Internship

Specialty/Research Focus: Children and Adults; Forensic Psychiatry; Psychiatry
Leo, Raphael

MD

Associate Professor

Specialty/Research Focus: Psychiatry
Leonard, Kenneth

PhD

Director, Clinical and Research Institute on Addictions and Professor of Psychiatry

Specialty/Research Focus: Addictions; Psychiatry
Lowmaster, Sara

Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Specialty/Research Focus: Clinical Psychology; Psychiatry; Psychology
Marshall, Dori

MD

Associate Professor

Specialty/Research Focus: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; Psychiatry
Martin, Peter

MD, MPH

Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry

Specialty/Research Focus: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; Forensic Psychiatry; Psychiatry
Miller, Bruce

MD

Professor of Psychiatry, Pediatrics, Psychology

Specialty/Research Focus: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; Psychiatry
Nazirbage, Joshua

M.D.

Clinical Assistant Professor

Specialty/Research Focus: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; Psychiatry
Pristach, Cynthia

MD

Professor of Clinical Psychiatry

Specialty/Research Focus: Psychiatry
Ranzenhofer, Lisa

PhD

Assistant Professor

Specialty/Research Focus: Behavioral Health; Biostatistics; Clinical Psychology; Clinical Research; Cognitive Behavioral Therapy; Electroencephalography (EEG); Obesity; Psychology
Ruggieri, Matthew

MD

Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry

Specialty/Research Focus: Psychiatry
Russell, Joshua

MD

Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry

Specialty/Research Focus: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; Psychiatry
Sengupta, Sourav

MD, MPH

Associate Professor of Psychiatry & Pediatrics Director of Training - Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Specialty/Research Focus: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; Psychiatry
Singh, Joshna

MBBS

Clinical Assistant Professor

Specialty/Research Focus: Psychiatry
Smith, Beth

MD

Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics; Interim Chair, Department of Psychiatry Chief, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences; Chief of Service, Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, Kaleida Health; Medical Director, The Children’s Psychiatry Clinic, Oishei Children’s Hospital

Specialty/Research Focus: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; Psychiatry
Tan, III, Alfonso

MD

Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry

Specialty/Research Focus: Ageing; Ageing; Geriatric Psychiatry; Psychiatry
Williams, Jamal

PhD

Assistant Professor

Specialty/Research Focus: Autism; Community Health Research; Epigenetics; Genome-wide Screening; Neuropsychiatric Disorders; Neuroscience; Transcriptomics
Wood, Beatrice

PhD, ABPP

Professor of Psychiatry, Pediatrics & Psychology

Specialty/Research Focus: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; Psychiatry
Xu, Junzhe

MD

Associate Clincal Professor

Specialty/Research Focus: Psychiatry
Yu, Hong

MD

Assistant Professor

Specialty/Research Focus: Psychiatry

Collaborating Faculty

Benedict, Ralph

PhD

Adjunct Professor

Specialty/Research Focus: Alzheimer Disease / Memory Disorders; Brain Research; Clinical Psychology; Concussion; Neuropsychiatric Disorders; Geriatric Psychiatry; Multiple Sclerosis; Neurodegenerative disorders; Neurology; Neuropsychology; Psychiatry; Psychology

Volunteer Faculty

Adragna, Sarah, PSYD
Ahmed, Syed, MD
Alessi, Joseph, MSC
Aronoff, Helen, MAT, MD
Auricchio, James, JD
Benedict, Laura, PHD
Bennett, Richard, MD
Bleichfeld, Bruce, MA, PHD
Boggiano, William, MD
Bohnert, Peggy, MD
Bortel, Jessica, MD
Brinkworth, Kelly, JD
Brula, Abdul, MD
Bundy-Myrow, Susan, MSC
Buttar, Kulwant, MD
Butters, James, MA
Castellana, Matthew
Cercone, Kristen, PSYD
Cervantes, Ana Natasha, MD
Conboy, Thomas, MD
Cowan, Richard, MD
Croglio, Vincent, DO
Davis, Julie, PHD
Demler-Dodson, Tammie Lee, PHARMD
Eagan, James, JD
Ets-Hokin, Emily, PHD
Fava, Giovanni, MD
Fitzgerald, Christopher, PSYD
Flanagan, Catherine, PHD
Frank, Tawni, MD
Frodey, Jill, MD
Garlan, Robert, PSYD
Ghosh, Biswarup, PHD
Glazer, Bonnie, MSC
Grace, Jeffery, MD
Grant-Bishop, Ellen, MSC, PHD
Gugino, Natalie, MD
Gupta, Sanjay, MD
Heffler, David, PSYD
Heffler, Melissa, MD
Heimer, Lauren, LLD
Hernandez, Sergio, MD
Hicks, Rebecca, MD
Hummel, Kelly
Jerard Less, Ariel, PSYD
Kamal, Robel, MD
Kaur, Navpreet, MD
Kelly, Tammas, MD
Krishnaswamy, Sudha, MD
Lesh, Barbra, MD
Luchey, Keli-Koran, PSYD
Mahler, Clifford, PHD
Mazur, Tom, PSYD
McArdell, Laura, PSYD
McCabe, Chelsey, PHD
McCartney, Michael
McCunn, Kara, MD
McGuerty, Allison, MD
Mehdi, Askar, MD
Merkel, Joseph
Mikowski, Annemarie, MD
Misir, Devinalini
Morra, Joshua, MD
Myrow, David, MS, PHD
Nowak, Melihat Fidan, MD
Olympia, Josie, MD
Park, Seung-Kyoon, MD
Pashler, Christopher, JD
Puca, Zachary, MD
Punturiero, Sarah, MSW
Rahman, Sadiqur, MD
Ravvin, Nicholas, MD
Reyes, Loida, MD
Rezza, Tara, PSYD
Ringel, Julia, MD
Saeed, Mohammad, MD
Sanderson, Diana, MD
Sastry, Alison, MD
Schaeffer, Rebecca, MD
Shuchman, Miriam, MD
Simms, Leonard, PHD
Skiffington, Stephen, PHD
Sondheimer, Adrian, MD
Sonino, Nicoletta, MD
Stanislawski, Aimee, MD
Szymanski, Herman, MSC, MD
Taublieb, Amy Beth, PHD
Trigoboff, Eileen, DNURSSCI
Wahlig, Elizabeth, PHD
Weiner, Michael, MSC
Welchoff, Tracy, PSYD
Willis, Daniel, MD
Yatsynovich, Viktor, MD
Zborowski, Michael, MS, PHD