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CVs are available for review, email info@NCNeuropsych.com C Thomas Gualtieri, MDDr Gualtieri is the Medical Director of the North Carolina Neuropsychiatry Clinics in Chapel Hill and Charlotte. Dr Gualtieri was born in Brooklyn, New York and educated at Columbia. He graduated from Columbia P&S in 1969 and was an intern at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal. His original ambition was to be a surgeon, but after three years in service as a general practitioner in Mound Bayou, Mississippi, he decided to be a psychiatrist. Dr Gualtieri trained in psychiatry and child psychiatry at the University of North Carolina. He was on the faculty at UNC for eleven years, where his research interests were in psychopharmacology and neuropsychiatry. During this time, his research was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health. His work on tardive dyskinesia has been widely cited. His first area of concentration was the study of children and adults with ADD and developmental disabilities. Then, his research group developed an interest in the problem of brain injury. For seven years he was the corporate medical director for Rebound, Inc, a national chain of brain injury rehabilitation centers. Dr Gualtieri founded NC Neuropsychiatry in 1988. He continues to have an active clinical practice, seeing children and adults with a wide range of neuropsychiatric disorders. An increasing proportion of his patients are middle-aged people with mild cognitive impairment, and older patients with dementia. Dr Gualtieri and his partners conduct clinical trials for many of the major pharmaceutical manufacturers. They have also developed a computerized neurocognitive testing battery, "CNS Vital Signs." www.cnsvitalsigns.com Dr Gualtieri is the author of more than 120 peer-reviewed medical publications and three monographs. His latest book, Brain Injury and Mental Retardation, Neuropsychiatry & Psychopharmacology (2002) is available from Lippincott publishers. Dr Gualtieri lives in Chapel Hill with his wife, Frances, who used to be a hospital pharmacist at UNC. Now she is the proprietor of Restaurant La Residence, in Chapel Hill. They have three sons, and three little girls, adopted from China. Dr. John BarkenbusDr. Barkenbus grew up in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. He obtained his college degree in psychology at Indiana University in Bloomington and his medical degree from Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis. He completed his residency training in Psychiatry at University of North Carolina Hospitals in Chapel Hill, NC. During his residency, Dr. Barkenbus spent time training in the UNC Neurology Department's clinics for Memory Disorders, Movement Disorders, and Epilepsy. After residency, Dr. Barkenbus spent a year at Dorothea Dix State Hospital attending to patients with Psychotic Disorders. While there, he worked daily with psychiatry residents and medical students as an adjunct clinical professor. Dr Barkenbus's clinical interests include cases which fall within the Neurology/Psychiatry interface such as Autism, Traumatic Brain Injury and Stroke, Tourette, Dementia and Mild Cognitive Impairment, Parkinson, Epilepsy, and Schizophrenia. Dr Barkenbus lives in Charlotte with his wife, Sarah, and their German Shepherd Dog, Zeus. April Gilfort, Ph.D.Dr. Gilfort received her doctorate in Counseling Psychology from Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1997. She completed her pre-doctoral internship and post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Miami School of Medicine/Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, Florida where she specialized in Evidenced-Based treatment modalities for family therapy and adolescent problem behaviors. Prior to coming to NC Neuropsychiatry, Dr. Gilfort was Clinical Director at a small, private agency which offered various Evidenced-Based counseling treatments to families. Dr. Gilfort specializes in providing services to families and treats individual family members across the life span at all developmental levels. She has particular expertise in the treatment of depression, anxiety, spiritual and religious crises, adolescent substance abuse and other problem behaviors, family therapy, and life management issues related to health and emotional difficulties. Finally, Dr. Gilfort provides psychological and personality testing for school-aged children, adolescents and adults. Courtney Dallas, PA-CCourtney Dallas is originally from Somers, NY. She attended the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and graduated with a Bachelors degree in Biology and a minor in Psychology. She worked for two years as a physical therapy aide in Mount Kisco, NY. Courtney then came to North Carolina to attend Duke University where she earned her Masters Degree through the Physician Assistant program. She started working at NC Neuropsychiatry in April of 2004. Sonya Montgomery, NPSonya Montgomery is licensed as a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner. She has 13 years as an advanced practice nurse in the psychiatric field. Dually certified as a Psychotherapist and Nurse Practitioner, she provides individual & group psychotherapy, prescribes medications, and orders/interprets labs and other diagnostic tests. Also certified as a Clinical Hypnotherapist. She provides services for children, adolescents, and adults. Areas of special interest include ADD/ADHD, mood disorders, anxiety, PTSD, and women's issues. Carol Rodgers, Nurse PractitionerCarol Rodgers is a certified nurse practitioner with a background in behavioral medicine and dementia care. Her past experience also includes internal medicine and full family practice. Her nursing degrees are from Clemson University in 1992 for her undergraduate and - after serving in the US Army as a RN - completed her Masters degree (Primary Care with a Family Practice focus) at University of Alabama at Birmingham in 1998. Her main interests include mood disorders, neurologic disorders and dementia care and management. Susan Merrill, Physician AssistantSue Merrill is a physician assistant with twenty years experience in medicine, currently seeing adults and children with mood and behavioral disorder. She has been with NC Neuropsychiatry since August 2005 and previously worked in Charlotte at the Behavioral Health Center. In addition to her experience in psychiatry, she has worked in women's health, internal medicine, family medicine, endocrinology and geriatrics. She received her Physicians Assistants degree from Trevecca Nazarene College in Nashville, TN in 1986. David Lynn, PhDDr. Lynn received his undergraduate degree in psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He earned his MA degree in psychology from Ball State University and his doctorate in clinical psychology from Indiana State University. Dr. Lynn has spent much of his post doctoral career working in community mental health centers in Indiana working primarily with chronically mentally ill persons. While working in community mental health, Dr. Lynn divided his time between therapy with clients and aiding other clinicians in their diagnosing of clients with the use of psychological testing. In the following years, Dr. Lynn had a successful private practice. Dr. Lynn’s specialty areas include anxiety disorders, mood disorders, work and home stress, life adjustment, grief therapy, family therapy and psychological testing. Treatment modalities include cognitive, behavioral, psychodynamic and hypnotherapy. Dr. Lynn focuses heavily on giving clients practical information that they can leave the office and use that day to help them on the road to feeling better. Dr. Aaron Hervey PhD Clinical NeuropsychologistDr. Hervey received his undergraduate training in psychology from the University of Virginia. After two years in clinical research in the area of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), he began work on his Ph.D in Child Clinical Psychology from Duke University, with additional specialty training in pediatric and adult neuropsychology, and a continued research focus on ADHD. Following his doctoral program, he completed a one-year internship in adult and pediatric neuropsychology at the University of Arizona Medical Center, and subsequently served as a Clinical Fellow in Neuropsychology for two years at Harvard Medical School in Boston. His fellowship included rotations at Brigham Behavioral Neurology Group with an emphasis on memory disorders, and the Psychological Assessment Center at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), where he saw primarily pediatric cases, including various Learning Disabilities and ADHD. He subsequently took a position at the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center at the University of California at San Diego, and maintained a private practice in San Diego and Orange County until joining North Carolina Neuropsychiatry in 2008. Nicole Karcinski, Psychiatric Nurse PractitionerMs. Karcinski is dually licensed as a Family Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner and Child & Adolescent Clinical Nurse Specialist. She earned her bachelors degree from The University of Florida and masters degree from The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Over the past 5 years she has worked in the specialty areas of substance abuse, eating disorders, and childhood trauma. Nicole provides play therapy, family therapy and individual psychotherapy along with diagnostic assessments and medication management. Her special interests include behavior disorders, attachment disorders, addictions and PTSD. Katherine E. McCoy, Physician AssistantKatherine McCoy is originally from Chapel Hill, NC. She attended the University of North Carolina Charlotte and graduated with a Bachelors degree in Psychology with a minor in Biology. She attended the Physician Assistant program at Cornell University in New York, NY. She has been employed by NCNP since April 2000 where she provides psychiatric services for children, adolescents, and adults. Areas of special interest include ADD/ADHD, Developmental Disabilities, TBI, anxiety, depression, and mood disorders.
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