Dr. Joel J Wallack M.D.
Psychiatrist | Psychiatry
222 E 19th St 1d New York NY, 10003Rating
4/5
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Dr. Joel Wallack is a psychiatrist practicing in New York, NY. Dr. Wallack is a medical doctor specializing in the care of mental health patients. As a psychiatrist, Dr. Wallack diagnoses and treats mental illnesses. Dr. Wallack may treat patients through a variety of methods including medications, psychotherapy or talk therapy, psychosocial interventions and more, depending on each individual case. Different medications that a psychiatrist might prescribe include antidepressants, antipsychotic mediations, mood stabilizers, stimulants, sedatives and hypnotics. Dr. Wallack treats conditions like depression, anxiety, OCD, eating disorders, bipolar disorders, personality disorders, insomnia, ADD and other mental illnesses.
Education and Training
Umdnj-New Jersey Med Sch- Newark Nj 1974
Board Certification
Psychiatry and NeurologyAmerican Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyABPN- Psychosomatic Medicine
Psychiatry and NeurologyAmerican Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyABPN- 1979
UrologyAmerican Board of UrologyABU
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Confidentiality in the age of HIPAA: a challenge for psychosomatic medicine.
- Psychiatric diagnosis in HIV-spectrum disorders.
- AIDS and the health care professional: evolving attitudes and strategies to effect change.
- Multidisciplinary approaches to consultation-liaison psychiatry: the C-L psychologist on an AIDS treatment team.
- Mixed factitious disorder presenting as AIDS.
- AIDS anxiety among health care professionals.
- Defining the psychiatric role in spastic dysphonia.
Awards
- 2010 Best Doctors, New York Magazine
- 2008-2009, 2008 New York Super Doctors
Treatments
- Anxiety, Depression
Fellowships
- Consultation Liaison Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, 1980 Consultation Liaison Psychiatry, Montefiore/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, 1978 1979 1979
- Montefiore Med. Center
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