Christopher Richards, MD
2185 Lemoine Avenue, Unit 1C Fort Lee, NJ 07024
Phone:
(833) 407-0830
2185 Lemoine Avenue, Unit 1C Fort Lee, NJ 07024
Phone:
(833) 407-0830
445 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10022
Phone:
(646) 625-4312
18 East 48th Street, Suite 1301-B, New York, NY 10017
Phone:
(212) 725-0192
65 Central Park West, Apartment 1D, New York, NY 10023
Phone:
(212) 721-3274
1301 5th Avenue, Floor 2, New York, NY 10029
Phone:
(212) 426-3400
40-45, 75th Street, 3FL, Elmhurst, NY 11373
Phone:
(718) 977-5490
37 E. 28th Street, Room 508, New York, NY 10016
Phone:
(212) 452-4657
2005 Palmer Ave Larchmont, NY 10538
Phone:
914-834-2214
1 Bridge St, Ste 24 Irvington, NY 10533
Phone:
914-591-4040
1051 Riverside Drive Child & Adolescent Psych Kolb Annex, Fl 2 New York, NY 10032
Phone:
646-774-5805
A pediatric/adolescent psychiatrist is a doctor who specializes in diagnosing and treating mental and emotional conditions in young children and adolescents.
These specialists study psychopathological disorders and their causes in order to prevent and identify them in their patients. These disorders may be caused by biological, psychosocial, genetic, demographic, or environmental factors, a patient’s history, or any combination of these factors.
Pediatric/adolescent psychiatrists treat patients through a variety of interventions including medical treatment, behavior therapy, cognitive-behavior therapy, problem solving techniques, family therapy, parent training, psychodynamic therapy, and consultation with the patient’s primary care physician or school professionals.
A Doctor of Medicine (MD) is a medical degree, the meaning of which varies between different jurisdictions. In some countries, the MD denotes a first professional graduate degree awarded upon initial graduation from medical school. In other countries, the MD denotes an academic research doctorate, higher doctorate, honorary doctorate or advanced clinical coursework degree restricted to medical graduates; in those countries, the equivalent first professional degree is titled differently (for example, Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery in countries following the tradition of the United Kingdom)
In 1703, the University of Glasgow's first medical graduate, Samuel Benion, was issued with the academic degree of Doctor of Medicine.
University medical education in England culminated with the MB qualification, and in Scotland the MD, until in the mid-19th century the public bodies who regulated medical practice at the time required practitioners in Scotland as well as England to hold the dual Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery degrees (MB BS/MBChB/MB BChir/BM BCh etc.). North American medical schools switched to the tradition of the ancient universities of Scotland and began granting the MoD title rather than the MB beginning in the late 18th century. The Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York (which at the time was referred to as King's College of Medicine) was the first American university to grant the MD degree instead of the MB.
Early medical schools in North America that granted the Doctor of Medicine degrees were Columbia, Penn, Harvard, Maryland, and McGill. These first few North American medical schools that were established were (for the most part) founded by physicians and surgeons who had been trained in England and Scotland.
A feminine form, "Doctress of Medicine" or Medicinae Doctrix, has also been used by the New England Female Medical College in Boston in the 1860s. In most countries having a Doctor of Medicine degree does not mean that the individual will be allowed to practice medicine. Typically a doctor must go through a residency (medicine) for at least four years and take some form of licensing examination in their jurisdiction.