- Clinical Psychologist, Private Practice
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Co-Founder & Chief Academic Officer, Wheel Houz, an inquiry-based applications company that helps students, ages 4-18, develop, ask and answer questions about themselves, others and the world. Presently, the company is preparing to launch its self-assessment game with It’s My Life®, a PBS Kids GO!™ Website in July, 2010.
- Founder & Publisher, NYC Private Schools Blog, an online family resource which provides information on pre-K-12 NYC Private/Independent Schools.
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Founder & President, Parenting Jungle, a company that develops psychologically and educationally informed products and resources for families in New York City and around the world. Divisions include:
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Private School Jungle (NYC families of children & adolescents)
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DesiToys Jungle (South Asian and South Asian Diaspora families).
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Private School Jungle (NYC families of children & adolescents)
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Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychology & Education, Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program, Teachers College, Columbia University, where I teach a core curriculum course in ethical and professional issues for first-year doctoral students.
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Consulting/Part-Time Faculty, Pre-Doctoral Internship Program in Clinical, Rehabilitation and Health Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Coler-Goldwater Specialty Hospital and Nursing Facility, where I teach an ethics seminar for psychology interns.
Selected Awards/Honors
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Global Citizenship Award for Leadership in Helping Humanity (2010), presented by Ophans International Worldwide
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Kappa Delta Pi, International Honor Society in Education (2003-present)
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Raoul Wallenberg Scholar, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1996-97), one of 10 American graduate students awarded full funding for one year in Israel to focus on Leadership in Democracies through coursework, internships, humanitarian project, and travel
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Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, Columbia University
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Dissertation: The roles of exposure, family relationships, and symptoms in children bereaved on September 11th: Comparisons of explanatory models
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Dissertation: The roles of exposure, family relationships, and symptoms in children bereaved on September 11th: Comparisons of explanatory models
- M.Phil., Columbia University
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M.S. in Clinical Psychology, Teachers College, Columbia University
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Raoul Wallenberg Scholar, Leadership in Democracies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
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B.A. in Psychology, Concentration in Neural & Behavioral Sciences, Haverford College
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Thesis (awarded Honors): The roles of gender, gonadectomy, and estrogen replacement on swim stress-induced analgesia (SSIA) in CXBK mice
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Thesis (awarded Honors): The roles of gender, gonadectomy, and estrogen replacement on swim stress-induced analgesia (SSIA) in CXBK mice
Previous Training and Clinical/Research Experience
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Staff Group Therapist, A Caring Hand, The Billy Esposito Foundation Bereavement Center, a non-profit bereavement center that provides comprehensive services to bereaved children, teens, and families in New York City.
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Project Director, Center of Prevention and Evaluation (COPE), Columbia University Medical Center, New York State Psychiatric Institute. COPE is an outpatient research program for adolescents and young adults (ages 12-30) who are at clinical high risk or prodromal to psychosis.
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Psychology Intern, Adult Track, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center & New York State Psychiatric Institute. Conducted intake interviews, performed neuropsychological assessments, and provided brief and long-term psychodynamic, cognitive behavioral, dialectical behavioral, group, and family/couples therapy. Rotations included: Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Schizophrenia Research Unit (Inpatient), Acute Treatment Team.
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Child Psychology Extern, PARTNERS Program, Department of Psychology, St. John's University. The Preventing Adverse Reactions to Negative Events and Related Stress (PARTNERS) is a program which tested a cognitive behavioral intervention vs. an educational-supportive intervention for children (ages 6-12) with substantiated cases of Child Physical Abuse (CPA).
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Child Psychology Extern, PARTNERS Program, Institute for Trauma and Stress, New York University Child Study Center. See description of PARTNERS Program above.
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Trainee, Center for Educational and Psychological Services, Teachers College, Columbia University. Conducted intake interviews, performed assessments, and provided treatment for children, adolescents, adults, families, and couples utilizing play, short- and long-term psychodynamic, and family/couples therapy.
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Graduate Research Assistant, Traumatic Bereavement Program, Institute for Trauma and Stress, New York University Child Study Center. The program offered counseling services to approximately 500 children and adolescents, and their families of firefighters, fire officers, and paramedics of the FDNY and police officers of the New York/New Jersey Port Authority Police Department and the New York City Police Department. It also compared Traumatic Grief-Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to Client-Centered Therapy in a randomized trial for for children and adolescents exposed to traumatic bereavement.
- Assistant Psychiatry Supervisor, Clinical Trials Program, Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Mount Sinai Medical Center. The program included several industry sponsored psychopharmacologic trials in a variety of child and adolescent (ages 6-17) disorders including ADHD, and mood and anxiety disorders.
- Clinical Research Coordinator, Clinical Trials Program, Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Mount Sinai Medical Center. See program description above.
- Clinical Research Coordinator, Division of Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology, Mount Sinai Medical Center. The research program included several projects and trials focusing on antiarrhythmic drugs and implantable cardioverter defibrillators.
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Mazzoni, P., Kimhy, D., Khan, S., Posner, K., Maayan, L., Eilenberg, M., Walsh, J., Kestenbaum, C., Corcoran, C. (2009). Childhood onset diagnoses in a case series of teens at clinical high risk for psychosis. Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology, 19(6), 771-776.
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Thompson, J. L., Kelly, M., Kimhy, D., Harkavy Friedman, J., Khan, S., Messinger, J.W., Schobel, S., Goetz, R., Malaspina, D., & Corcoran, C. (2009). Childhood trauma and prodromal symptoms among individuals at clinical high risk for psychosis. Schizophrenia Research, 108(1), 176-181.
- Corcoran, C., Kimhy, D., Stanford, A., Khan, S., Walsh, J., Thompson, J., Schobel, S., Harkavy-Friedman, J., Goetz, R., Colibazzi, T., Cressman, D., & Malaspina, D. (2008). Temporal association of cannabis use with symptoms in individuals at clinical high risk for psychosis. Schizophrenia Research, 106(2), 286-293.
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Thompson, J. L., Kelly, M., Printz, D., Kimhy, D., Khan, S., Walsh, J., Harkavy-Friedman, J., Malaspina, D., & Corcoran, C. (2008, May). Associations between childhood trauma and psychotic-like symptoms among individuals at clinical high risk for psychosis. Poster was presented at the 63rd Annual Convention of the Society of Biological Psychiatry, Washington D.C.
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Corcoran, C., Kimhy, D., Walsh, J., Khan, S., Schobel, S., Stanford, A., Thompson, J., Malaspina, D., Lieberman, J. (2007). Temporal association of cannabis use and perceptual disturbances in prodromal patients. Biological Psychiatry, 61 Suppl, S1-S266.
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Thompson, J., Kelly, M., Printz, D., Kimhy, D., Khan, S., Walsh, J., Harkavy-Friedman, J., Malaspina, D., Corcoran, C. (2007, October). Childhood trauma and psychotic-like symptoms among individuals at clinical high risk for psychosis. Poster was presented at the 21st annual meeting of the Society for Research in Psychopathology, Iowa City, Iowa.
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Brown, E. J., Goodman, R. F., Khan, S. A., Valerian, A., Tokayer, N., & McQuaid, J. (2003, October). Psychiatric symptoms among children bereaved on September 11th, 2001: Correlates of traumatic grief. Paper presented as part of a symposium titled “Children’s traumatic grief: Emerging clinical research” at the annual meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Chicago, IL.
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Brown, E.J., & Khan, S.A. (2003). Child abuse and neglect: Definitions, consequences, and treatment. Child Study Center Letter, 7, 1-6.
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Psychologist, New York State
Selected Human Rights & Community Service Experience
Intern (Israel), B'Tselem: The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories (1996-1997)
Professional Affiliations
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American Psychological Association
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Asian American Psychological Association
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New York State Psychological Association
- South Asian Journalists Association


