Anna Baumgaertel, M.D., F.A.A.P. — She is a developmental-behavioral pediatrician who has been a researcher and medical academician. She was practicing at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia until 2008. She recently started her own private practice of developmental behavioral pediatrics in Narberth PA. She is involved with evaluations and management of children with a wide variety of neurodevelopmental problems, especially ADHD and autism. She is interested in the fellowship to better understand the application of psychoanalytic ideas and approaches to these children and to the support of their families. Her mentors are Drs. Barbara Shapiro and William Singletary.
Maria Lozano Celis, M.D. — She is a PGY -3 psychiatry resident at Albert Einstein Medical Center. She brings unique educational experiences to the fellowship since she completed a psychiatry residency in Medellin, Columbia and also receiving a diploma from the Culinary Arts Institute in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. She will use the fellowship to increase her understanding of psychoanalytic concepts and explore psychoanalytic views of religion, psychosomatic syndromes and dream analysis. Her mentors are Drs. Alex Glijansky and Diana Rosenstein.
Nicole Dorio, D.O. — She is a third year resident in psychiatry at UMDNJ-SOM. While she started her medical career pursuing oncology her curiosity about her patient’s emotional suffering and personality difficulties led her towards psychiatry. She will use the fellowship to expand her didactic understanding of basic analytic concepts and how they are experienced in the clinical setting. Her mentors are Drs. Albert Kaplan and Gerald Margolis.
Andrea Doyle Ph.D. — She recently moved from Seattle after finishing her Ph.D. to take a tenure track position at the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and Practice. Her interest in dynamic processes in clinical encounters has led her to training in a variety of research methods. She has explored the measurement of psychoanalytic processes and has discovered dynamic clinical processes are measurable in very sophisticated ways. She will use the fellowship to discuss a research design for study and explore an article for publication in the area of clinical process. Her mentors are Drs. Lawrence Blum and Ann Smolen.
Lori A. Goldstein, M.D. — She is a PGY – 4 psychiatry resident at University of Pennsylvania. She entered psychiatry after completing two years of Obstetric and Gynecology training at Pennsylvania Hospital. She found the fast pace and extremely guideline oriented reality of contemporary practice impeded the development of a deeper patient-physician relationship. She has found her “calling” in psychiatry and looks forward to using the fellowship to explore her interests in personality structure, conflict analysis, resistance, transference/countertransference, and eating disorders. Her mentors are Drs. Kenneth Cohen and Lana Fishkin.
Erin Hadley, Ph.D. — She is a Clinical Psychology Post-Doctoral Fellow at Pennsylvania Hospital and a recent graduate of Long Island University Clinical Psychology Program. She enjoys working with people during adolescence and early adulthood and is interested in using the fellowship to better understand issues of separation/individuation, independence and intimacy. She is also interested in deepening her understanding of how to apply dynamic theory to work with traumatized communities. Her mentors are Drs. Fran Martin and Corrine Masur.
Jonathan M. Kersun, M.D. — He is a psychiatrist in private practice in Swarthmore PA who is also the Medical Director at Child Guidance Resource Centers in Havertown. He will use the fellowship to deepen his understanding of child development, pathology, assessment, and treatment. He will also use the fellowship to better understand psychodynamic theory and technique in his clinical work with his patients in practice. His mentors are Drs. Bernard Comber and Ruth Fischer.
Dan Livney, M.S. — He comes to psychology after spending 11 years working in the computer field during the “dot.com” upsurge. He is completing a Psy.D. at Chestnut Hill College. He is also participating in a predoctoral internship at Swarthmore College counseling center while also working on his dissertation involving adolescents, group process, and mentalization. He will use the fellowship to become more familiar with psychoanalytic theory and its application in work with adolescent and college age patients. His mentors are Drs. Sally Holtz and Jack Solomon.
Kevin Scott McCarthy Ph.D. — He is a Clinical Psychology Post-Doctoral Fellow at Pennsylvania Hospital and a recent graduate of University of Pennsylvania Psychology Doctoral Program. His professional goal is to become a professor of psychology at an area college or university and would like to present his students with a more even handed view of psychodynamic theory than he received at the undergraduate level. He will use the fellowship to gain a better understanding of basic concepts, theory, technique and analytic process. His mentors are Drs. Fredrick Miller and Mark Moore.
Claire Pouncey, M.D., Ph.D. — She is a psychiatrist who recently left academic medicine for private practice. She completed her training at the University of Pennsylvania in 2005 and enjoyed academics but she found it did not permit time to engage creatively with her work in philosophy. Her philosophical projects focus on psychiatric classification and psychiatric ethics, both of which have room to be informed by psychoanalysis. She will use the fellowship to explore these academic interests and to enhance her clinical work. Her mentors are Drs. Gary Flaxenberg and Isaiah Share.
Keren L. Sofer, Psy.D. — She is a Psychology Post-Doctoral Fellow at Pennsylvania Hospital and a recent graduate of University of Denver Graduate School of Professional Psychology. She will use the fellowship to become better versed in psychoanalytic theory and ways to apply it to the clinical situation. She is also interested in exploring the feasibility of psychodynamic practice and ways to apply psychoanalytic therapy in work with adolescents and couples. Her mentors are Drs. Susan Adelman and Barbara Young.
Gregory Thorkelson, M.D. — He is PGY–2 psychiatry resident at Temple University. His life has been a series of varied and diverse yet interrelated experiences. In his teenage years, the thrust of his focus was on the violin and information technology. In college he majored in finance while performing in orchestras and working in technical support and server administration. He will continue his pursuits of diverse interests in the fellowship by exploring the connections between Eastern thought and Western psychoanalytic tradition. He also plans to use the fellowship to broaden his application of analytic thought to his work with patients. His mentors are Dr. Richard Cornfield and Ms. Linda Spero.
Sam Jones, M.A. — He is Senior Associate Director of Global Careers at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He has been exposed to psychodynamic thinking when he worked, in Shanghai, China, for a psychodynamically oriented HR firm called Global Executive Resources. The firm focused on executive assessment using psychometric instruments and dynamic interviewing and long term coaching. As a career advisor to a crosscultural group of highly intelligent, motivated and achievement oriented Wharton students, he will use the fellowship to study the application of psychoanalytic theory to the process of MBA career advising. His mentors are Drs. Robert Kravis and Craig Lichtman.
Margarete Landwehr, Ph.D. — She is Associate Professor of German and German Program Coordinator at West Chester University. Her impressive expanse of academic work covers German literature, film, culture, and language often related to issue of the Holocaust. She will use the fellowship to research W.G. Sebald’s novel “Austerlitz”. In the fellowship she will explore two themes in these works– trauma narratives as revealing and concealing secrets and the role of empathy – function both on the level of content, of the plot and in form. Her mentors are Drs. Henri Parens and Elaine Zickler.
James Rahn, M.F.A. — He is a writer and teacher who has published many stories and articles and taught at Penn for 15 years. In 1988 he started the Rittenhouse Writers’ Group, a series of quarterly fiction writing workshops. In his years of teaching he has seen the need for in-depth exploration of the unconscious factors that can prevent writers from delivering their hearts to the page. This interest led him to participate in the Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Program. He will continue to explore these interests in the fellowship with special attention to the psychodynamics involved with writers block, and difficulty starting or sustaining creative projects. His mentors are Dr Eric Lager and Ms. Susan Levine.
Ilana Vine — She is a recent graduate of Bryn Mawr College where she majored in English and Theater and minored in creative writing. She has experience as an actor, director, playwright, and dramaturg and has been involved in 13 college productions. She will use the fellowship to study psychoanalysis as it applies to theater, specifically the relationship between director and actors. She is interested in exploring inhibitions and conflicts which restrict actors from becoming more fully engaged in their performances. She is also interested in transference phenomenon between actors and directors in order to understand the complexities of their working relationships. Her mentors are Drs. Deena Adler and Fredrick Fisher.
Catherine Baker-Pitts, Ph.D. — She is a clinical social worker, in private practice, who recently moved her busy family life and Manhattan psychotherapy practice to the Philadelphia area. She completed a four-year psychoanalytic training program at The Women’s Therapy Centre Institute in NYC where she is now on faculty. She is pursuing the fellowship to explore more deeply her dissertation research which involved the conscious and unconscious dynamics involved in the process surrounding cosmetic surgery. She is particularly interested in transference and enactments between patient and the cosmetic surgeon. Her mentors are Dr. Edward Hicks and Ms. Miriam Field.
Tanya H. Hess, Ph.D. — She is a Clinical Psychologist at the Philadelphia VA Medical Center, having recently completed her Clinical Psychology Internship at Pennsylvania Hospital and a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in eating disorders and residential treatment at the Renfrew Center. She will use the fellowship to examine the psychotherapeutic process with special attention to the countertransference and applying psychoanalytic theory within the constraints of brief treatments. Her other interests include the history of psychoanalytic thought and relational psychoanalysis. Her mentors are Drs. John Frank and Thomas Wolman.
Basant K. Pradhan, M.D. — He is a PGY-3 psychiatry resident at Albert Einstein Medical Center. He completed a psychiatry residency in India where he studied psychoanalysis and treated patients with psychoanalytic therapy. In addition, he has recently been selected for the Child Psychiatry Fellowship at Jefferson. He will use the fellowship to broaden his existing knowledge and skills in analytic treatment with particular interest in character pathology. His mentor is Drs. Daniel Freeman.
Matthew Purcell, Psy.D. — He is a staff psychologist at Pennsylvania Hospital, working both on the hospital's psychiatric inpatient unit and in the outpatient psychology clinic. He will use the fellowship to enrich his understanding of the various psychodynamic theories of the mind and how they apply to clinical practice. He is also interested in the growing literature demonstrating the empirical evidence supporting the efficacy of psychodynamic psychotherapy. Additionally, he hopes to explore the application of psychodynamically informed short-term psychotherapy in inpatient hospital settings, its potential benefits, and its limitations. His mentor is Dr. Sydney Pulver.
Lindsay B. Sortor, Psy.D. — She is a clinical psychologist with the Penn Center for Women’s Behavioral Wellness at the University of Pennsylvania. Her joint focus is reproductive psychology and psychooncology. Following a two-year internship and post-doctoral position at Pennsylvania Hospital, where she fostered her interest in cancer, she cultivated an even more specific interest in young women struggling with 7 issues of fertility as cancer treatment options loom large, as well as those women coping with infertility following various treatments. She maintains her foundation in psychodynamics and hopes to utilize this fellowship to further understand the dynamic interplay between medical illness, relationships, and life stages. Her mentors are Drs. Peter Badgio and Eva Loeb.
Helen M. Buettner, Ph.D. — She is a Professor in Biomedical Engineering and Chemical & Biochemical Engineering at Rutgers University. She has served as the Associate Dean in the School of Engineering and currently is the Vice Chair of the Biomedical Engineering Department. She would like to use the fellowship to develop her ideas about mentoring in engineering. She would also like to apply psychoanalytic thinking to elucidate strategies for improving the representation and success of women in academic engineering careers. Her mentors are Drs. Jeffrey Applegate and June Greenspan-Margolis.
Amy Buzby — She is a 2006 graduate of Haverford College and currently a third year Ph.D. student in Political Science at Rutgers University. She first encountered Freud and psychoanalytic thinking as an undergraduate. As her research and reading has become more extensive she contends that analytic thought has been grossly neglected by mainstream political theory. She will use the fellowship, in conjunction with her dissertation work, to bring psychoanalytic thought more fully to bear on political theory. Her mentors are Drs. Anita Schmukler and Carroll Weinberg.
Alex Kaplan — He is a 2009 graduate of Haverford College currently working on government reform issues for Common Cause Pennsylvania. He began his fellowship in his senior year in efforts to study insight oriented therapies rarely covered in his undergraduate courses. He will use the fellowship to study clinical practice, psychoanalytic thought and application of analytic ideas to social service in order to prepare for graduate studies. His mentors are Dr. Marc Inver and Ms. Mimi Rose.
Michele Stake, M.H.S., D.P.T. — She is a practicing physical therapist with a wide range of clinical experience for the past twenty years. She recognizes the value of learning psychoanalytic theory to help improve her clinical work with patients. She hopes to learn about the relationship between psyche and soma, particularly since her patients often suffer from complex disabilities and high levels of pain. She would also like to study how transference between patient and therapist affects the rehabilitation process. Her mentors are Drs. Elio Frattaroli and Ruth Garfield.