Jack D. Barchas M.D. is the Barklie McKee Henry Professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at the Weill-Cornell University Medical College and Psychiatrist-in-Chief at The Weill-Cornell Medical Center of the New York Presbyterian Hospital. Dr. Barchas has just finished an eight-year term as Editor of Archives of General Psychiatry.
Previously, Dr. Barchas was the Dean for Research Development and for Neuroscience at UCLA School of Medicine and a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences. He obtained his medical degree at Yale, took an internship at the Pritzker School of Medicine of the University of Chicago, postdoctoral training at the NIH, and his psychiatry residency at Stanford where he was a faculty member through 1989. At Stanford, he held the Nancy Friend Pritzker Professorship and was the Director of the Pritzker Laboratory at Stanford, an interdisciplinary program centered about fundamental aspects of behavioral neurobiology. He also served as Associate Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.
The thrust of Dr. Barchas' past research dealt with neuroregulators and behavior. The themes of his efforts included: 1) identification of previously unrecognized neuroregulators, especially neuropeptides; 2) study of fundamental control mechanisms for neuroregulators; and 3) exploration of the roles of neuroregulators in animal and human behavior as well as in human mental disorders and addictive states. He is an author of several hundred-research papers and has edited a dozen books.
Apart from his departmental administrative activities, Dr. Barchas has been deeply involved in public policy issues. For 12 years he chaired the Board on Biobehavioral Science and Mental Disorders of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. The Board produced evaluations for the federal government dealing with health needs and research opportunities. Currently, Dr. Barchas serves as Chair of the Board of Trustees of the New York Academy of Medicine and of the Association for Research on Nervous and Mental Disorders. He is President of the Pasarow Foundation, which provides awards for extraordinary scientific achievement in the fields of neuropsychiatry, cardiovascular disease and cancer. He is currently the Director of the Pritzker Network on Depression, which involves cross-institutional research efforts involving Cornell, Michigan, and Stanford.
Elizabeth L. Auchincloss, M.D. is the Vice-Chairman for Graduate Medical Education, Director of Residency Training and Professor of Clinical Psychiatry. She is also the Associate Director and Training and Supervising Analyst at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research.
Dr. Auchincloss is a graduate of Yale College. She received her M.D. from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and trained in Psychiatry at the Payne Whitney Clinic of the New York Hospital where she was Chief Resident in 1982. She received her certificate in psychoanalysis from the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research in 1986. Between 1993-2001, she was an Adjunct Lecturer in the Department of English and Comparative Literature in Columbia University.
Dr. Auchincloss is a three-time recipient of the Award for Best Voluntary Faculty Teacher given by the residents of the Payne Whitney Clinic, the recipient of the 1998 Klar Award for Best Teacher given by the candidates of the Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, the winner of the 1999 Edith Shabsin Award for teaching psychoanalysis from the American Psychoanalytic Association, and the George E. Daniels Award from the Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine for contributions to psychoanalysis. From 1991-1997, she served as chairman of the curriculum committee of the Columbia Psychoanalytic Center. She currently serves as Chairman of the Committee on Graduate Medical Education of the New York Presbyterian Hospital-Cornell Campus and on the Committee for Psychotherapy Competencies of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training. She has recently been appointed to represent the American Psychiatric Association on the Residency Review Committee for Psychiatry of the ACGME.
Dr. Auchincloss has served in the past as Editor-in-Chief of the Bulletin of the Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine and Editorial Associate of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. She is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the New Glossary of Psychoanalytic Terms and Concepts (with Eslee Samberg, M.D.) to be published jointly by the American Psychoanalytic Association and Yale University Press. She is a well-known speaker on the subjects of psychoanalytic curriculum and education, psychotherapy education in residency training, the teaching of psychoanalytic concepts and teaching the writings of Freud to college students. She is the author of many book chapters and reviews and has won the Beller Award of the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalysis, the Menninger Award from the American Psychoanalytic Association and the Roughton Award from the American Psychoanalytic Association for scholarly work. She is the editor of The Quiet Revolution in American Psychoanalysis: Selected Papers of Arnold M. Cooper, M.D.(London, Brunner-Routledge, 2004) She has published papers in the American Journal of Psychiatry, The Archives of General Psychiatry, the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the International Journal of Psychoanalysis. Her most recent publications include ÒTeaching Freud to College StudentsÓ (with Nathan Kravis, M.D.-International Journal of Psychoanalysis), "Psychoanalysis and homosexuality: Do we need a new theory?" (with Susan C. Vaughan, M.D.-Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association) "Commentary on ÔThe Place of Psychoanalytic Treatments within Psychiatry,Õ"Archives of General Psychiatryand "A re-assessment of psychoanalytic education: Controversies and changes," (with Robert Michels, M.D. International Journal of Psychoanalysis) In March ,2004, she was a Discussant of the Keynote Papers in the Plenary Session of the 43rd Congress of the International Psychoanalytic Association in New Orleans.
Sibel Klimstra, MD is the Director of Residency Training in Geriatric Psychiatry, Associate Vice Chair for Graduate Medical Education at Payne Whitney Westchester, and Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry. She is also Director of Medical Student Education for the Westchester Division. She is the Associate Director for the Westchester DivisionÕs Specialized Practice for Older Adults and the Associate Director for Weill-CornellÕs Medical Student Psychiatry Clerkship.
Dr. Klimstra graduated from Barnard College, Columbia University with a BA degree, majoring in Biopsychology. She received her MD degree from Yale University School of Medicine in 1988, and stayed at Yale for her adult psychiatry residency, becoming Chief Resident and receiving the Laughlin Fellow Merit Award in 1992. She also completed a PGY-V fellowship year in geriatric psychiatry at Yale University with J. Craig Nelson, MD.
After training, she came to the Westchester Division due to its renowned geriatric psychiatry program, headed by George S. Alexopoulos, MD. She has remained there ever since, establishing clinical research interests in geriatric psychopharmacology, depression, and dementia. Currently, she is an Investigator on several NIMH-funded research grants involving the prevention of geriatric depression and the prevention of suicide in the elderly. She is an author of papers published in the prestigious geriatric psychiatry journals, the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and the International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. Most recent publications include "Continuation Treatment of Delusional Depression in Older Adults"(American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry) "Executive Dysfunction and Disability in Elderly Patients with Major Depression" (American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry).
In the year 2003-2004, Dr. Klimstra served as Acting Director of Medical Student Education in Psychiatry for Weill-Cornell Medical College and in 2005 was appointed Associate Clerkship Director for the Medical Student Psychiatry Clerkship. She is an oral board examiner for the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and teaches oral board examination courses to the residents and fellows. She has received the Faculty Teacher of the Year Award from the psychiatry residents in 2001, an Excellence in Teaching Award from Weill Medical College of Cornell University in 2002 and the Teacher of the Year Award from the geriatric psychiatry residents in 2005.
