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Maurice Preter, M.D.

American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN), Certification in Neurology

American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN), Certification in Psychiatry

Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
Columbia University, College of Physicians & Surgeons

Adj. Associate Professor of Neurology, College of Medicine, State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center

 

Private Office:

1160 Fifth Avenue, Suite 112          New York, NY 10029

Telephone and Fax: +1-212-713-5336        Web: psychiatryneurology.net

 

 

EDUCATION

1983: Gymnasium Diploma (Abitur), Munich, West Germany

 

1983-1984: Studies of Ethnology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, West Germany

 

1984-1991: Faculty of Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, West Germany

 

1990-1991: Externship, Hôpital Tenon and Hôpital Saint-Antoine, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, University of Paris VI, Paris, France

 

1991: Externship, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts

 

1991: MD Degree (Ärztliche Prüfung), Faculty of Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, West Germany

 

1995: Doctor medicinae (Dr. med.), thesis cum laude. Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany.

 

 

POSTDOCTORAL TRAINING

Internships and Residencies:

1991-1992: House officer, Hôpital Saint-Antoine, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, University of Paris VI, Paris, France

 

1992-1993: House officer, Clinique de Creil/Hôpital Privé, Creil, France

 

1993-1994: Medical internship, Bronx Municipal Hospital Center (Jacobi Hospital)/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York

 

1994-1999: Combined Neurology-Psychiatry Residency, Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York

 

 

LICENSURE

1990: ECFMG

 

1991: Germany/European Community

 

1993: Federal Licensing Examination (FLEX), Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

 

2000-2003: Mississippi #16607

 

2002: National Institutes of Health sponsored computer based training course, Human Participant Protection Education for Research Teams

 

2003: New York State #228362

 

 

CERTIFICATION

2004: American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Certification in Psychiatry, #53437

 

2004: American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Certification in Neurology, #52684

 

2006: Certification to practice medication-assisted opioid addiction therapy with Subutex® (buprenorphine hydrochloride) and Suboxone® tablets (buprenorphine hydrochloride and naloxone  hydrochloride)

 

 

PRINCIPAL PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY

Integrated private practice of neurology and psychiatry

 

Focus: Diagnosis and treatment of neurological/psychiatric overlap conditions (neuropsychiatry) and medically unexplained symptoms

 

Combination of psychodynamically informed psychotherapy and psychopharmacology

 

Forensic consultations to the courts, attorneys, and private and public institutions

 

Ongoing research:

Psychobiology of I.V. Naloxone and Lactate in Normals (New York State Psychiatric Institute/Columbia University Department of Psychiatry, Protocol #4699. Principal Investigator: Donald F. Klein, M.D.)

 

 

MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS

Pharmacology and psychology of neurological/psychiatric overlap conditions (neuropsychiatry) and medically unexplained symptoms

 

Psychological trauma

 

Anxiety and panic disorder

 

Chronic pain, migraine and chronic headache

 

Integration of neurology, psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine

 

 

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

2000-2003 : Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Mississippi School of Medicine, Jackson, Mississippi

 

2000-2003 : Assistant Professor of Neurology, University of Mississippi School of Medicine, Jackson, Mississippi

 

2001-2003 : Assistant Professor of Family Medicine, University of Mississippi School of Medicine, Jackson, Mississippi

 

2004-: Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York

 

2008-: Adj. Associate Professor of Neurology, College of Medicine, State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center

 

 

HOSPITAL APPOINTMENTS        

2000-2003 : Attending Psychiatrist, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Holmes County, Mississippi

 

2000-2003 : Attending Neurologist, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Holmes County, Mississippi

 

2001-2003 : Attending Psychiatrist, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi

 

2001-2003 : Attending Neurologist, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi

 

2004-: Attending Physician, New York State Psychiatric Institute

 

2009-: Department of Medicine, Division of Neurology, Lenox Hill Hospital, New York 

 

 

AWARDS AND HONORS

1983: Gymnasium Diploma (Abitur), Munich. With Very High Honors

 

1991: MD, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, West Germany. With High Honors

 

1990-1993: Residential Scholarship, Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris (C.I.U.P.), University of Paris, France

 

1995: Doctoral Thesis in Medicine cum laude. Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, West Germany

 

1997-1998: Fellow of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute

 

1998-1999: Fellow of the American Psychoanalytic Association

 

2009: Renowned Visiting Professor Award, Shanghai Jiao-Tong University International Exchange Foundation, Shanghai, China

 

 

ACTIVE COMMITTEES

2006-:World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry, Task Force on Pain Management

 

2006-:World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry, Task Force on Anxiety Disorders and OCD

 

 

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

1995- : American Academy of Neurology

 

1996- : American Psychiatric Association

 

2000- : International Society for Neuro-Psychoanalysis

 

2001- : American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law

 

2003- : Harvard Medical School Program in Psychiatry and the Law at Mass. Mental Health Center (corresponding)

 

2004-: American Neuropsychiatric Association

 

2004-: American Association of French-Speaking Health Professionals

 

2004-: Independent Doctors of New York (IDNY)

 

2008-:  China American Psychoanalytic Alliance (CAPA)

 

2010-: The American Academy of Psychoanalysis & Dynamic Psychiatry

 

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

1995-1996: Instructor, Introduction to Neurology (for first year medical students), Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY

 

1997-1998: Instructor, Nervous System and Human Behavior Course (for second year medical students), Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York

 

1997-1998: Instructor, Neurology and Neuropsychiatry for Psychiatrists. Psychiatric Residency Training Program, Harlem Hospital Center, New York, NY

 

1997-1999: Instructor, Neurology and Neuropsychiatry Module for Psychiatry Residents, Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York

 

1998-1999: Instructor, Clinical Neuroscience and Neuropsychiatry Course for Psychiatry Residents, Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York

 

2006-: Supervisor, Columbia University, Department of Psychiatry

 

2008-: Supervisor, Two-Year Psychotherapy Training Program, China American Psychoanalytic Alliance Inc (CAPA)

 

 

FACULTY

2000-2003: Research/Academic Trainee Mentorship Program. Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi

 

2001-2003: Clinical Supervision. Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi

 

2001-2003: Advanced Psychopathology Course (PGY-III). Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi

 

2005: Chronic Pain. Neuropsychiatry Course. NYU Psychiatry Residency. Bellevue Medical Center

 

2008: Basic Mechanisms in Clinical Neuroscience (for MS2). College of Medicine, State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center.

 

2010: Shanghai Municipality/Chinese Medical Association Stroke Forum, Shanghai, China, February 26, 2010.

 

 

SELECTED ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS

International Network for Interdisciplinary Research about the Impact of Traumatic Experience on the Life of Individuals and Society. Invited Participant. Hamburg, Germany, November 30 - December 4, 1998.

 

Working with the Elderly Holocaust Survivor: A Neuropsychiatrist's Perspective. Trauma Studies Conference, National Center for PTSD, Yale Psychiatric Institute, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, December 16, 1998.

 

The Holocaust: Five Stories, Fifty Years Later. Invited Discussant (with Walter Reich, M.D. and Yehuda Nir, M.D.). Audiovisual Presentation. Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association. Chicago, Illinois, May 16, 2000.

 

Trauma and psychopathology in rural Mississippi. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association. New Orleans, Louisiana, May 9, 2001, and at the Annual Meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, New Orleans, Louisiana, December 7, 2001 (with Sabina E. Preter, M.D., Ph.D.).

 

The Shoah and its Aftermath on Film. Invited Discussant (with Alan A. Stone, M.D., Leonti Thompson, M.D. and Harold Bursztajn, M.D.) Audiovisual presentation. Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law. Boston, Massachusetts, October 26, 2001.

 

Migraine, panic, traumatic separation, and endorphins. An affective neuroscience model of a common condition. Grand Rounds Presentation, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, February 22, 2002.

 

Pseudodementia in the twenty-first century - what is ‘pseudo’, what’s real, what can be forgotten, what should be remembered? Issue Workshop (with Randolph B. Schiffer, M.D. and Robin Hilsabeck, Ph.D.). Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. May 20, 2002.

 

Childhood Trauma in Film: Undzere Kinder (1948). Audiovisual Presentation (Discussants: Yehuda Nir, M.D. and Harold Bursztajn, M.D.). Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 19, 2002.

 

Post-Genocide Psychological Trauma in Film: Under the Domim Tree. Co-Chairperson: Harold J. Bursztajn, M.D. Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association. San Francisco, California, May 20, 2003.

 

Post-Genocide Psychological Trauma in Film: The Summer of Aviya. Co-Chairperson: Harold J. Bursztajn, M.D. With Gila Almagor, Amira Kohn Trattner, Yehuda Nir, M.D., Leonti Thompson, M.D., Dori Laub, M.D. Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association. New York City, NY, May 5, 2004.

 

The Re-Presentation of the Unthinkable: Childhood trauma and loss during the Shoah. Workshop on Undzere Kinder (1948). IV. International Congress of Psychic Trauma and Traumatic Stress/IV. Congreso Internacional de Trauma Psíquico y Estrés Traumático. June 25, 2004. Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina. 

 

Post-Genocide Psychological Trauma in Film: Jeux Interdits (Forbidden Games). Co-Chairperson: Harold J. Bursztajn, M.D. Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association. Atlanta, GA, May 23, 2005.

 

The Re-Presentation of the Unthinkable: Childhood trauma and loss during the Shoah. Workshop on Undzere Kinder (1948). 44^th Congress of the International Psychoanalytical Association. July 29, 2005. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

 

Panic, Separation Anxiety, and Endogenous Opioids. Lecture given at the Arnold Pfeffer Center for Neuro-Psychoanalysis at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, Neuro-Psychoanalysis Lecture Series (with Donald F. Klein, M.D.). New York City, February 4, 2006.

 

The Re-Presentation of the Unthinkable: Childhood trauma and loss during the Shoah. Workshop on Undzere Kinder (1948). World Psychiatric Association International Congress, July 15, 2006. Istanbul, Turkey.

 

The Re-Presentation of the Unthinkable: Childhood trauma and loss during the Shoah. Workshop on Undzere Kinder (1948). 30th Congress of the International Academy of Law and Mental Health, June 26, 2007. University of Padua, Italy.

 

“Respirer”- Influence du psychisme sur la respiration et de la respiration sur le psychisme. With/Avec Dr Bianca Lechevalier, Bruno Clement, Prof. Thomas Similowski, Christine Jean Strohlic Laurent Larrieu, Christine Coste. Table ronde Philoctetes Center France, February 11, 2008.

 

Charcot’s Shadow: Integrating 19th Century Clinic into 21st Century Practice. Clinical conference. Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, Division of Psychotherapy. New York, April 17, 2008.

 

Panic, Suffocation False Alarms, Separation Anxiety and Endogenous Opioids. Grand Rounds Presentation, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, Division of Psychotherapy. New York, April 22, 2008.

 

Charcot’s Shadow: Integrating 19th Century Clinic into 21st Century Practice. Department of Neurology. Shanghai First People's Hospital. Jiao-Tong University, Shanghai, China. July 4, 2008.

 

Panic, Separation Anxiety, Suffocation False Alarms and Endogenous Opioids. NPAP and the New School for Social Research. Department of Philosophy. New York, March 13, 2009.

 

Update on Panic Disorder – Review of American Studies. First Congress of the Japanese Society for Anxiety Disorder Research. Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, March 28, 2009.

 

The Third Derivative of Witnessing: Unzere Kinder: Attempt At a Synthesis. Paper given at the 15^th The Fifteenth World Congress of Jewish Studies. Hebrew University, Mt. Scopus Campus, Jerusalem, Israel. August 3, 2009

 

How can anxiety research contribute to our understanding of psychogenic movement disorders? Human Motor Control Section, Medical Neurology Branch (Director: Mark Hallett), National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD. August 21, 2009.

 

Panic, Suffocation False Alarm Theory, Separation Anxiety, Endogenous Opioids, and Childhood Parental Loss (CPL). Grand Rounds Presentation. Peking University, Department of Psychology. Beijing, China. November 20, 2009.

 

Controlled cross-over study in normal subjects of naloxone-preceding-lactate infusions; respiratory and subjective responses:

Relationship to endogenous opioid system, suffocation false alarm theory and childhood parental loss (CPL).

Peking University Health Science Center, 6th Hospital, Institute of Mental Health. Beijing, China. November 20, 2009.

 

Controlled cross-over study in normal subjects of naloxone-preceding-lactate infusions; respiratory and subjective responses: Relationship to endogenous opioid system, suffocation false alarm theory and childhood parental loss. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Anxiety Disorders Association of America (ADAA), Baltimore, MD. March 5, 2010.

 

 

MISCELLANEOUS PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

1997-1999: Founder and Director, Geriatric-Neuropsychiatric Specialty Clinic for Holocaust Survivors in Bronx County, Jacobi Medical Center/Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York

 

1999- : Secretary of the Board, International Trauma Center, (Director: Dori Laub, M.D., Yale University School of Medicine)

 

2003-present: Independent Medical Examiner, New York State Supreme Court

 

2004-present: Research Psychiatrist, New York State Psychiatric Institute

 

2005-2007: Director of the Board, American Association of French-Speaking Health Professionals

 

2005-present: Chair, Committee on Internet Activity, Independent Doctors of New York (IDNY)

 

2008-2010: Treasurer, Independent Doctors of New York (IDNY)

 

 

EDITORIAL AND REVIEWS

Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry

 

Neuroscience Letters

 

Journal of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

 

The Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies

 

The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry

 

Archives of Neurology

 

Journal of Neuro-Psychoanalysis

 

Kaufman, David M: Clinical Neurology for Psychiatrists, 5th ed. W. B. Saunders & Co., 2001

 

 

LANGUAGE ABILITIES

Fluent in: English, French, and German.

Other levels: Hebrew, Yiddish, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese.

 

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Preter M: Long-term Prognosis in Cerebral Venous Thrombosis. A Follow-Up of 77 Patients. Doctoral Thesis cum laude, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, West Germany, 1995.

 

Raps SP, Preter M, Mehler MF: A Prelinguistic Subcortical Language Network for the Modulation of Semantic Content and Articulatory Output. Neurology 46 (Suppl) (1996) A291-292.

 

Preter M, Tzourio C, Ameri A, Bousser MG: Long-term Prognosis in Cerebral Venous Thrombosis: Follow-Up of 77 Patients. Stroke 27/2 (1996) 243-246.

 

Deschiens MA, Conard J, Horellou MH, Ameri A, Preter M, Chedru F, Samama MM, Bousser MG: Coagulation Studies, Factor V Leiden, and Anticardiolipin Antibodies in 40 Cases of Cerebral Venous Thrombosis. Stroke 27/10 (1996)1724-1730.

 

Preter M, Klein DF: Panic Disorder and the Suffocation False Alarm Theory: Current State of Knowledge and Further Implications for Neurobiologic Theory Testing. In: Bellodi L, Perna G (eds.): The Panic Respiration Connection. Milan 1998.

 

Preter M. Comment on: P. Wilgowicz: Listening Psychoanalytically to the Shoah Half A Century On. International Journal of Psycho-Analysis 80 (1999)1068-1070.

 

Gitig A, Merino JG, Hoffman L, Preter M, Ramesar C, Wyszynski B, Medalia A: Moyamoya Disease Presenting as Atypical Postictal Delirium after ECT in a Woman with Clinically Silent Putaminal Infarcts. Einstein Quarterly Journal Of Biology And Medicine 17 (2000) 190-193.

 

Preter M. Comment on: Social deprivation and prevalence of epilepsy and associated health usage. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry 69 (2000) 837-838.

 

Ross DC, Preter M, Klein DF: Hematologic Alterations and CO2 Hypersensitivity in Male Panic Disorder Patients and Normal Controls: Similarities to High-Altitude Hypoxia and Chronic Lung Disease. Depression and Anxiety 14 (2001)153-154.

 

Preter, M. Comment on: The interrelations of migraine, vertigo and migrainous vertigo. Neurology 57 (2001)1522.

 

Preter M: Psychiatry, Neurology, Neuropsychiatry - What it all means (for our patients) British Medical Journal Electronic Edition, 3 January 2003.

 

Preter M: Reply to J. Stone and M. Sharpe. Internet resources for psychiatry and neuropsychiatry. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry Online Edition, 5 February 2003.

 

Preter M: «Vérapamil et effet dépressogène». La Lettre du Neurologue Vol. VIII n.8 (Octobre 2004).

 

Preter M: The didgeridoo (and the clarinet?) as neuropsychiatric treatment? British Medical Journal Electronic Edition, 12 March 2006.

 

Lee SH, Lim J, Vannucci M, Preter M, Klein DF: Order-preserving dimension reduction test for the dominance of two mean curves with application to tidal volume curves. Biometrics 2008 Jan 4 [Epub ahead of print].

 

Preter M, Klein DF: Panic, Suffocation False Alarms, Separation Anxiety and Endogenous Opioids. Progress in Neuropsychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry 32/3 (2008) 603-612. Full version at PubMed Central.

     

Preter M, Kahn JP: A Call for Quality Care. Human Resource Executive. July 1, 2008.

 

Preter M, Kahn JP: Doing Mental Healthcare Right the First Time. Risk&Insurance. August 1, 2008.

 

WFSBP Task Force on Treatment Guidelines for Anxiety, Obsessive-Compulsive and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders:

World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP) Guidelines for the Pharmacological Treatment of Anxiety, Obsessive-Compulsive and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders - First Revision. Click here to read: The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry 2008; 9(4): 248-312.

 

Preter M. Update on Panic Disorder. Japanese Society for Anxiety Disorder Research (2009) Vol 1, No.1. Click here to read.

 

Preter M, Bursztajn HB. Crisis and opportunity—The DSM-V and its neurology quandary. Asian Journal of Psychiatry 2009; 2(4): 143.

 

Preter M, Lee SH, Petkova E, Vannucci M, Kim S, Klein DF. Controlled cross-over study in normal subjects of naloxone-preceding-lactate infusions; respiratory and subjective responses: relationship to endogenous opioid system, suffocation false alarm theory and childhood parental loss. Psychological Medicine doi:10.1017/S0033291710000838. Published Online by Cambridge University Press May 6, 2010. Click here to read.

 

 

SELECTED PUBLIC SERVICE ACTIVITIES/GENERAL EDUCATION/LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Psychological and forensic thoughts on Pressure Point. Film & Psychoanalysis Series. American Jewish Historical Society, Leo Baeck Institute. YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Center for Jewish History, New York. November 13, 2006.

 

IPTAR Art, Psychoanalysis and Society Project: Childhood Trauma in Film: Undzere Kinder. Center for Jewish History/YIVO. New York, November 4, 2007.

 

New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis Freudian Colloquium Committee. Childhood Trauma in Film: Undzere Kinder (Screening and Discussion with Isaac Tylim, Judith Eckman-Jadow, and Rivka Greenberg). New York, November 2, 2008.

 

The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves - A conversation between Siri Hustvedt and Maurice Preter MD. Program in Narrative Medicine. Columbia University P&S. New York, May 12, 2010. Click here for more info. Click here to listen.

 

Perception and Distortion – In Reply to: 'The Shaking Woman,' by Siri Hustvedt: Seized (April 4, 2010). New York Times Review of Books, April 18, 2010. Click here to read.

 

 

 

 

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