Abe Bartell, MD
Director, Consultation Liaison
Sloane Kettering Memorial Hospital
“The triple board program defined who I was not just a child & adolescent psychiatrist but, for lack of a better term, a pediatric psychiatrist, that identity has pervaded my career to this point. 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 you more broadly to different systems 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 components were 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. I felt that the 5 year pediatric continuity experience would allow be to experience development hands on not read about it in a text book, the experience was in fact far better than the average pediatrician because they have only 3 years of continuity in an outpatient setting over 5 you see the same child cross more developmental age groups.
How does your Brown triple board training influence what you do now? Triple board training has and continues to significantly influence my medical career. In 8 & 1/2 years since finishing I have been both a pediatrician and psychiatrist at a free standing academic adolescent health center, a TB training director and supervisor and mentor, worked as a consultation and liaison psychiatrist in the acute inpatient and ER pediatric setting as well as in the community consulting to schools, foster care agencies, children's advocacy programs the City-wide 9-11 response in NYC and even Sesame Workshop. Most recently I have spent nearly 3 years working exclusively with children who have cancer and with their parents and siblings. 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 you more broadly to different systems of care.