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Specialties
Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Professional Education
Fellowship, Psychiatry, Child & Adolescent
SUNY Upstate Medical University, College of Medicine, Syracuse – 2008
Residency, Psychiatry
SUNY Upstate Medical University, College of Medicine, Syracuse – 2006
M.B., B.S.
Allama Iqbal Medical College, Pakistan – 2000
Dr. Hameed is the Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute (PPI) interim Medical Director.
He graduated from Allama Iqbal Medical College. Dr. Hameed completed his residency at SUNY Health Science Center in Syracuse, New York. He serves on Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute’s Medical Executive Committee as President. Dr. Hameed is board certified in psychiatry.
Dr. Hillwig-Garcia graduated from Penn State University College of Medicine, where she also completed her Adult Psychiatry Residency and a Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship.
Dr. Mahr graduated from Allama Iqbal Medical College. She completed her residency at the University of Texas Health Science Center – Houston and the Milton S Hershey Medical Center.
Dr. Mahr’s specialty is adolescent and child psychiatry.
Dr. Petersen graduated from the Medical College of Georgia, School of Medicine. He completed his residency and fellowship at the University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers.
Dr. Petersen is board certified in psychiatry and adolescent and child psychiatry.
Dr Lidija Petrovic-Dovat graduated in 1992 from MD, Medical School of Novi Sad, Yugoslavia and completed her Fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2006 at UW, Madison and Psychiatry Residency, 2001-2004, at UCLA/SFV Psychiatry Training Program, Los Angeles, CA She is Board Certified in Psychiatry and Neurology/ Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and General Psychiatry.
In 2009, Dr Petrovic-Dovat received the Best Doctors in America award and has been published in the American Journal of Physiology and BBA (Biochemica et Biophysica Acta)
Her areas of interest are Childhood Anxiety Disorders, Depression and Bipolar Disorders
Dr Petrovic-Dovat is Assistant Professor at the Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute Department of Psychiatry.
Dr. Erika Saunders is Chair for the Department of Psychiatry; Director of the Mood Disorder Program and Gerald B. Shively and Robert Y. Tan Professor at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and Penn State College of Medicine.
Dr. Saunders completed her residency in adult psychiatry, as well as a research fellowship in mood disorders at the University of Michigan Medical Center. She earned her medical degree from the University of Iowa College of Medicine. Board-certified in psychiatry, Dr. Saunders’ clinical and research interests include bipolar disorder and mood disorders. Dr. Saunders’ work has been recognized nationally, and she is active in the Society for Biological Psychiatry, the American Society Clinical Psychopharmacology, the International Society for Bipolar Disorders, and the American Psychiatric Association.
Dr. Saunders is a fellow of the American College of Psychiatrists and is a fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.
Dr. Saunders has been awarded a Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching and a PSU Resident Teaching Award.
Dr. Graziane completed her undergraduate degree at College of the Holy Cross and her MD at University of Rochester School of Medicine. She completed her psychiatry residency at Brown University’s Alpert School of Medicine, where she also served as Chief Resident. She subsequently completed fellowships in geriatric psychiatry and ECT at University of Pittsburgh and is double-boarded in adult and geriatric psychiatry.
Specialities
Family Medicine
Professional Education
Fellowship, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center Obstetrics and Gynecology
Internship, PinnacleHealth Hospitals
Medical Residency, PinnacleHealth Hospitals
Wake Forest University
Dr. Bellon graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico. He received his Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences at the same University. Dr. Bellon completed his Adult General Psychiatry Residency Training in the Menninger Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas. Dr. Bellon completed his post-doctoral fellowship (schizophrenia & stem cells) at the Center of Psychiatry & Neurosciences Team 2 Phatophysiology of Psychiatric Illnesses at Saint Anne Hospital, Paris, France.
