Staff Member Category: Providers

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. Mormando comes to us from the State University of New York. Stony Brook, NY, where he was a chief resident in Psychiatry. Prior to this, Dr. Mormando was a Visiting Psychiatric Research Scholar at NSLIJHS/Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine, NY. Dr. Mormando received his medical degree from New York College of Osteopathic Medicine-NYIT, Old Westbury, NY. He is a part of our adult inpatient at 4 Memorial and will be doing ECT.

Dr. Lagman comes to us from the Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, NJ, where she did her Child and Adolescent Psychiatry fellowship. Prior to that she did her Psychiatry residency at Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA and her Pediatrics residency at the West Visayas State University Medical Center, Iloilo City, Philippines where she also received her MD degree.

In May of 1998 Janet received her BS in Nursing while attending Coppin State in Baltimore, MD. She continued to further her education receiving her Masters in Nursing at the School of Nursing also in Baltimore, MD

Sarah Sharfstein Kawasaki, MD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Director of Addiction Services at PPI. Dr. Kawasaki received her MD at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and completed her internal medicine residency at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, followed by a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Center for Behavioral Addiction Medicine, Department of Family Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles. Most recently she served as Director of Internal Medicine at Healthcare for the Homeless in Baltimore, MD, where she treated the mentally ill and substance using homeless population in Baltimore. She is an advocate for smoking cessation and suboxone treatment, for which she is a certified provider. She has interests in investigating health outcomes in model of treatment, where interdisciplinary teams, including psychiatry, outpatient addiction treatment and case management, work in tandem.