WHAT THE GRADUATES SAY
Gillian Pearis, MD
1998-2003
Private Practice Child Psychiatry
“When I applied to Triple Board, I envisioned myself as being a pediatrician who also could take care of patient's psychiatric needs, using a holistic approach to the care of the child. It excited me that the Brown program was supportive of this vision and of others.”
What did you enjoy about your triple board training? One of the highlights was "Psychosocial Clinic" where we would see one of our pediatric clinic patients with an attending and evaluate them further for psychosocial stressors.
How does your triple board training impact your practice now? Everyday and in every way. Read more..
Mary Margaret Gleason, MD
1998-2003
Infant Mental Health, Triple Board Training
Rhode Island Hospital
“I loved that we had opportunities for longitudinal relationships with families. We spend 5 years in the clinic as the primary care providers. At the end of residency, the infants I met in the NICU were going to kindergarten- and I had been with them the whole time. What a way to learn about development and families!” Read more
Jack Fanton, MD
1998-2003
NIMH-funded researcher
Mental Health Center Child Psychiatrist
Why did you choose Brown Triple Board? Mostly because trying to be a quadruple boarder felt too much like trying to be an over achiever and the awesum peeple at Bwown seemed like wickid fun to wurk wid. Read more
Courtenay Matsu, MD
1997-2002
Program Director, General Psychiatry Residency
Co-director, Triple Board Program
John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii
“The triple board residents were welcoming and there was a sense of collegiality through all the disciplines (pediatrics, general psychiatry and child psychiatry) and through all levels (residents, staff and attendings). Triple boarders were well-regarded and well-trained with some going on to pediatrics or child psychiatry fellowships. The diversity of career paths following triple board training continues to amaze me.” Read more
Daniel Dickstein, MD
1997-20
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Director, M.I.N.D. Program, Bradley Hospital
NIMH-funded Research, Neuroimaging in Bipolar Disorder
“ I am grateful to have trained as a triple boarder. Every day, I use my training to have a multi-layered understanding of children, adolescents, and families--thinking comprehensively about their bio-psycho-social needs. Families love the fact that I understand medical illness and development. Colleagues seem to appreciate this, too. ”
Why did you choose Brown Triple Board program? As I went through my clinical rotations, I realized there were a lot of children and families who fell between the cracks of pediatrics and psychiatry. Read more...
Michelle Casoli-Reardon, MD
1996-2001
Director, Partial Hospitalization Program
“I chose the triple board because I wanted a training that would allow me to treat children and adolescents as a whole and not in a vacuum. There isn't a patient that I see, that doesn't benefit from better care because I am able to process and evaluate their disorder from all aspects. … What I enjoyed most about my training was the feeling that I was part of a family. The program went beyond just training me. I felt like I grew while I was at Brown and like the program helped foster that in me. I am a not only a better physician for it, but also a better person.”
Michael Delahunt MD
1994-1999
Academic Pediatric Psychiatry
“I appreciated the relationships I developed with a broad range of mentors and peers that spanned across all disciplines within healthcare and is similar to the relationships that I have developed among colleagues since residency. I am eternally grateful to the quality of mentors I had.” Read more
Ginger Manzo, MD
1993-1998
Private Practice, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
“I chose Brown Triple Board by accident/luck! I had no idea that TB programs existed. It was only when Iarrived at Brown as a pediatric resident that I heard of the TB program. I was accepted into the program after my second year”
How does your training impact your current practice? I have been in private or group practice settings since 1998, the first year of which I spent in a pediatric practice combining pediatrics with psychiatry. While I have not practiced pediatric medicine for the last 8 years, it is all still quite fresh in my mind (mostly) and helps me be broad in my differential diagnoses and also to diagnose medical illness on a fairly regular basis. It keeps me thinking carefully! Some of my current patients were pediatric patients of mine years ago, and I love that type of continuity.
Abraham Bartell, MD
1993-1998
Director, Pediatric Consultation Liaison
Sloane Kettering Memorial Hospital
“All of my work has been influenced by my triple board training because of the diversity of training, the experience of crossing different settings of care and because it exposes youmore broadly to differentsystems of care”
Why did you choose Brown Triple Board? I chose the Brown program because it consistently had a great reputation… and it appeared as thought the three componentswere all committed to the combined program and worked well together.. all turned out to be true!
What do you see as the advantages of triple board training? One major issue for me was seeing "normal" especially in kids. …Read more..
Greg Steiner, MD
1992-1997
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry- private practice and community mental health centers
Why did you choose Brown Triple Board? I completed a rotation at Bradley Hospital during my senior year in medical school. The experience was excellent with rigorous but wonderful supervision from Dr. Tom Anders who was at Brown at the time. The residents/fellows seemed happy and positive about their training experience. Who could ask for more?
What did you enjoy about your triple board training? In reality the best part of training was the great cameraderie with the other trainees during my residency.
Thomas Chun, MD
1991-1996
Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Hasbro Children’s Hospital
“I think triple board is truly a unique form of training. Being able to look at "both sides" of a patient, both the medical and psychological, is invaluable.… it is holistic medicine at it's best.”
What struck me when I was looking at programs was how well integrated and coordinated the triple board residency was with each of the three component residencies at Brown. I got the sense that all three departments worked well with and respected each other and that the triple board residents were valued and held in high esteem by each of the departments and by their peers. I was also impressed by how academically strong each of the three individual departments were. Having gone through the residency and now being a faculty member, I'm happy to say that all these impressions were and still are true. Read More
Neil Boris, MD
1988-1993
Associate Professor
Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Diseases
Co-director of Pediatric Consultation Liaison
“I think triple board training made me a better teacher and collaborator. I understand pediatricians in a way child psychiatrists trained in a classic way almost never do.” Read more...
Elizabeth Wheeler, MD
1987-1992
Medical Director, Pediatric Partial Hospitalization
Bradley Hospital
“I chose triple board because I was the medical student representative to the medical faculty council at Brown during the development [of the program]. I believe Triple Board training has given me a lens and confidence to integrate medical knowledge into the way I approach cases.” Read More