Psychiatry Expert Team

Clinical Team Members

Itai Danovitch MD Chair, Department of Psychiatry Director, Addiction Psychiatry Clinical Services Associate Director, Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship Program	Alexander H. Fan MD Associate Director, Inpatient Psychiatry Services
Waguih W. IsHak MD Medical Director, Outpatient Psychiatry Services Director, Psychiatry Residency Training Program	Barry A. Kramer MD Medical Director, ECT
Syed Naqvi MD Director, Pediatric Psychopharmacology Clinic	Anand Pandya MD Psychiatry
Heidi Sulman-Smith MD Child Psychiatry	Roxy Szeftel MD Director, Child Psychiatry Director, Child Psychiatry Training
Jennice S. Vilhauer PhD Clinical Director, Adult Outpatient Programs Director, Psychology Training	Jeffery N. Wilkins MD Vice Chair, Department of Psychiatry Medical Director, Addiction Medicine Lincy Foundation/Andrew Heyward-Amy Moynihan Chair in Addiction Medicine

• Amy L. Christianson MD, MS, MBA
  

Research Team Members

Robert M. Cohen MD, PhD Director, Memory Disorders Center Director Director, Research, Department of Psychiatry Chief, Research for Dementia and Neurodegenerative Diseases, S. Mark Taper Foundation Imaging Center Steven C. Gordon Family Foundation Chair in Memory Disorders

Robert N. Pechnick PhD Associate Director, Psychiatry Research

Excellence in Nursing

Cedars-Sinai is proud of its nurses. For more than 20 years, they have been named "best nurses" of all Los Angeles area hospitals in an annual consumer survey conducted by National Research Corporation. In addition, the nurses of Cedars-Sinai achieved the Magnet Recognition for Excellence in Nursing from the American Nurses Credentialing Center, the nation's leading nursing credentialing organization. The Department's nursing team consists of:

• Registered nurses (RNs)
• Licensed vocational nurses (LVNs)