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Modasar Shah, M.D. Joplin, MO<br />

Sponsors: Joan Tolchin, M.D. <strong>and</strong> Gerald P. Perman, M.D.<br />

Dr. Shah graduated Tokyo Medical <strong>and</strong> Dental School in<br />

1968 <strong>and</strong> did his residency training at the Missouri Institute<br />

<strong>of</strong> Psychiatry graduating in 1977 <strong>and</strong> is Board Certified in<br />

Psychiatry <strong>and</strong> Neurology. He works full-time at the Ozark<br />

Community Health Center where he practices supportive<br />

psychotherapy <strong>and</strong> medication management. He is interested<br />

in psychodynamic psychiatry as expressed in his letter <strong>of</strong><br />

introduction <strong>and</strong> as evidenced by his attendance at the OPIFER<br />

meeting in Rome in November 2011.<br />

Shaneel Shah, M.D. Brooklyn, NY<br />

Sponsors: Scott C. Schwartz, M.D. <strong>and</strong> Joseph P. Merlino,<br />

M.D., M.P.A.<br />

Dr. Shah received his M.D. from the Government Medical<br />

College in Surat, India. He obtained an master’s degree in Public<br />

Health from the University Michigan, Ann Arbor 2008-09, <strong>and</strong><br />

has been in the Michigan Psychoanalytic Society Fellowship,<br />

NYU Psychoanalytic Society Weekly Seminars (2009), the<br />

William Alanson White Institute Intensive Psychoanalytic<br />

Psychotherapy Program (2011-12), <strong>and</strong> will complete his<br />

psychiatric residency training at Downstate Medical Center in<br />

Brooklyn in 2013. He has given many medical <strong>and</strong> psychiatric<br />

presentations. He has several hobbies <strong>and</strong> is fluent in Hindi <strong>and</strong><br />

Gujarati in addition to English.<br />

Zhenyu Shi, M.D., Ph.D. Shanghai, China<br />

Sponsors: Elise Synder, M.D. <strong>and</strong> César Alfonso, M.D.<br />

Dr. Shi received his undergraduate degree from Tianjin<br />

Medical University <strong>and</strong> his Ph.D. (statistics, cognitive<br />

neuroscience, psychotherapy <strong>and</strong> molecular genetics) from<br />

Tonjii University. He attended Kunming Medical College<br />

receiving a master in psychiatry in 2005. He completed his<br />

psychiatric residency from Shanghai Mental Health Center in<br />

2011. He was an attending psychiatrist at the Shanghai Mental<br />

Health Center for two years. He was a research fellow at Harvard<br />

University in 2008-09 in Bio-behavioral Family Studies in the<br />

Department <strong>of</strong> Psychiatry. He has had extensive experience<br />

teaching <strong>and</strong> practicing psychiatry in China. He has a dozen<br />

publications <strong>and</strong> has participated in numerous additional training<br />

experiences including the two year CAPA program.<br />

Deepan Singh, M.D. Arverne, NY<br />

Sponsors: Scott C. Schwartz, M.D., Jospeh Merlino, M.D.<br />

Dr. Deepan Singh received his MBBS from Sikkim Manipal<br />

Institute <strong>of</strong> Medical Sciences, Sikkim, India, his Sub-internship,<br />

Internship <strong>and</strong> Residency Training in Psychiatry at SUNY<br />

Downstate Medical Center beginning in October 2008. He<br />

expects to complete residency training in 2013. He plans to<br />

begin Adult Psychodynamic Psychotherapy training at the<br />

Institute for Psychoanalytic Education affiliated with the NYU<br />

School <strong>of</strong> Medicine in September 2011. He has volunteered at<br />

the Infant <strong>and</strong> Child Learning Center in Brooklyn, NY since<br />

May 2009. He has supervised medical students, psychiatry<br />

<strong>and</strong> neurology residents <strong>and</strong> a psychology intern over the past<br />

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two years. He received a Fellowship in <strong>Psychoanalysis</strong> from<br />

the Psychoanalytic Association Associated with New York<br />

University from September 2010 until the present. He is a<br />

member <strong>of</strong> six psychiatric/psychoanalytic organizations.<br />

Rangsun Sitthichai, M.D. Bangkok, Thail<strong>and</strong><br />

Sponsors: César Alfonso, M.D. <strong>and</strong> Silvia Olarte, M.D.<br />

Dr. Sitthichai graduated Suankularb Wittayalai College in<br />

Thail<strong>and</strong> in 1993, received his M.D. from Chulalongkorn Uni.<br />

Medical School in Thail<strong>and</strong> in 1999, completed a psychiatric<br />

residency at St. Louis Uni. Medical School in 2009, <strong>and</strong><br />

completed his Child <strong>and</strong> Adolescent fellowship at Children’s<br />

Hospital Boston/Harvard Medical School in 2011. He has<br />

worked with mentally h<strong>and</strong>icap <strong>and</strong> autistic children <strong>and</strong> has<br />

participated in several psychoanalytic <strong>and</strong> other seminars. He has<br />

received several awards <strong>and</strong> belongs to a number <strong>of</strong> psychiatric<br />

organizations.<br />

Marna R. Sternbach, M.D. Philadelphia, PA<br />

Sponsors: Melissa Crookshank, M.D., Donna J. Cotzen, M.D.<br />

Dr. Marna Sternbach graduated from Radcliffe College<br />

in 1971, Tufts School <strong>of</strong> Medicine in 1975, completed her<br />

psychiatry residency from Thomas Jefferson Medical College in<br />

PA, her family practice residency at Albert Einstein College <strong>of</strong><br />

Medicine in 1978, <strong>and</strong> Fellowship in Academic Family Medicine<br />

in 1989. She has worked in a number <strong>of</strong> family practice settings<br />

<strong>and</strong> is currently a staff psychiatrist with Temple U Tuttleman<br />

Counseling Center. She is currently doing a fellowship at the<br />

Psychoanalytic Center <strong>of</strong> Philadelphia <strong>and</strong> attends monthly case<br />

conferences with the psychoanalytic c<strong>and</strong>idates.<br />

Jamuna <strong>The</strong>venthiran, M.D. New York, NY<br />

Sponsors: Scott C. Schwartz, M.D., Joseph Merlino, M.D.<br />

Dr. Jamuna <strong>The</strong>venthiran graduated Barnard College,<br />

Columbia U with a BA in Psychology in 2002, St. George’s<br />

University Medical School in the Caribbean in 2008, completed<br />

two years <strong>of</strong> residency training in Psychiatry at St. Vincent’s<br />

Catholic Medical Center in NYC from 2008-2010, <strong>and</strong> is<br />

completing her residency training at SUNY Downstate Medical<br />

Center from 2010 until the present. She volunteered for three<br />

months in 2002 at <strong>The</strong> Special Needs Clinic <strong>of</strong> Columbia<br />

Presbyterian <strong>and</strong> has volunteered at the International Medical<br />

Health Organization from 2005 until the present that works to<br />

develop health care infrastructure in underserved areas around<br />

the world. She speaks Tamil fluently <strong>and</strong> enjoys tennis, yoga<br />

<strong>and</strong> reading.<br />

Gregory Thorkelson, M.D. Akron, OH<br />

Sponsors: Cesar Alfonso, M.D., Xavier Jimenez, M.D.<br />

Dr. Gregory Thorkelson is a third year psychiatric resident<br />

at Temple University in Philadelphia who received his BS in<br />

Finance with a minor in Violin performance from Miami U<br />

in Ohio in 2003, his EMT certification from the Clevel<strong>and</strong><br />

Clinic in 2006, <strong>and</strong> his M.D. from Ross U in the Dominican<br />

Republic in 2008. He has worked briefly at a state mental<br />

hospital <strong>and</strong> the Cook County Correctional Facility in Chicago.

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