Archives: Staff Members

Dr. Swigart comes to us from the Butler Hospital, Providence, RI. Dr. Swigart did her residency in general psychiatry as a chief resident in the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI and received her medical degree from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY. She is part of our adult inpatient team on 6 Memorial and will have an outpatient service, as well.

Dr. Mahgoub comes to us from the Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY. He previously completed his residency with us from 2012-2016. Prior to that he obtained his M.B.B.S from the University of Khartoum, Sudan, and did a psychiatry residency at Taha Basahar psychiatric teaching hospital, Khartoum, Sudan. He is apart of the adult inpatient team at PPI on 6 Memorial.

Dr. Faschan comes to us from the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, where he did his general psychiatry residency training. Dr Faschan obtained his medical degree at Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA. He is part of our adult outpatient team at PPI.

Dr. Singh was our Chief Resident for the year 2017-18 and the State Resident Representative for PPI (2016-18), He recently finished his research addiction fellowship at Yale University. Prior to coming to us as a resident, Dr. Singh completed his Psychiatry training at the Manchester Deanery NHS, UK. Dr. Singh joined us an Assistant Professor on September 1, 2019. He joins our inpatient team at PPI. He will also work with the outpatient addiction services team at PPI.

Arianna Waid PMHNP-BC joined PPI in October 2020 working in the Child Outpatient 3rd Street Clinic. Ms. Waid comes to us from Allegheny Heath Network’s St. Vincent Hospital in Erie, PA. where she worked as a Psychiatric RN. She earned her Masters of Science in Nursing, her Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner and her Certificate in Forensic Mental Health from Drexel University in Philadelphia.

Elizabeth Smith, CRNP, joined PPI Medical Services on October 24, 2019.

Ms. Smith brings her background in psychology and nursing together to her role as medical CRNP at PPI. She completed a B.S. in Psychology from the University of Pittsburgh and worked in a residential treatment facility and an inpatient psychiatric facility before returning to school for nursing. She received an A.D.N. from HACC, a B.S.N. from Penn State University, and a M.S.N. from Millersville University as a FNP. She has worked at Holy Spirit Hospital as a telemetry and ICU float nurse and at PSHMC in the HVICCU.

On April 1, Dr. Fatima Masumova joined the department as an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, working with the PPI Child Outpatient team. She is triple-boarded in psychiatry, child and adolescent psychiatry and forensic psychiatry. Dr. Masumova comes to us from private practice with Harrison Forensic Psychiatry, LLC in New Jersey. She has experience as a full time psychiatrist at Rutgers University’s University Correctional Health Care providing outpatient and inpatient care as well as risk assessment and sexually violent predator evaluations and reports. She received a BS in Biological Sciences and History from Rutgers University, completed Medical School at West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine, residency at the University of Tennessee Health & Sciences Center, child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at Hofstra Northwell, and a forensic fellowship at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.

Dana Schirk, MD joined us on August 1, 2021. She will provide adult inpatient services at PPI.

Dr Schirk comes to us from Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, where she was Chief Resident. She attended medical school at Penn State College of Medicine, and holds a BS in Biology with minors in Spanish and Anthropology from Ursinus College in Collegeville, PA.