Veronica M. Rojas, MD

Veronica M. Rojas, M.D is a Double Board Certified of the American Board of Neurology and Psychiatry in General and Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. She holds a Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at New York University as a voluntary faculty. Dr Rojas’s area of psychiatric expertise is diverse; adolescents, college women transitioning into young professional women, motherhood and families.

She has trained in psychodynamic psychotherapy and dialectic behavioral therapy. She is currently becoming certified in Mindful Based Stress Reduction at the University of Massachusetts. Dr. Rojas applies all these techniques plus her great belief in exercise, vitamins, meditation and psychotropic medication when needed. Dr. Rojas did her General Psychiatric Residency at New York Presbyterian (Cornell) and did her Child & Adolescent Psychiatric Fellowship at New York University –Child Study Center.

Following her fellowship, she became the Director of the first ACS (Administration for Children and Families) – Bellevue Mental Health Program for five years. After running this program, she had the privilege of becoming the first female to be an Associate Medical Director of the Department of Psychiatry at Bellevue Hospital.   In addition, she was the psychiatrist at Edwin Gould for Children & Families foster care agency for more than ten years, providing services to women in great need.

 

Dr. Rojas has published in several magazines, has appeared on television and has published articles and book chapters related to women and their families, college young professional women, trauma and migration. She practices psychiatry in NYC and Ridgewood, NJ, where she lives with her husband and two daughters.

Degree

MD

Title

Private Psychiatry Practice

Clinical Appointments/Hospital Affiliation

Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at New York University (voluntary faculty),

Description of Practice/Services Offered

Areas of Research

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Professional Education

2000  Wyeth-Ayers/AADPRT IMG Mentorship Program

2002  American Psychiatric Institute for Research and Education/Janssen, Pharmaceutica Public Policy Leadership Program. 

Publications

1.  Rojas V. M.: Migration and women. Mental Health News. Fall 2006.   

2.  Rojas V.M., Alonso C., Silva R.: Review of Benzodiazepine Use in Children and Adolescents. Psychiatric Quarterly vol. 76, number 3, 2005.

3.  Rojas V.M., Silva R., Citalopram Treatment in a Depressed Adolescent. Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology Vol 11, Number 3, 2001.

4.  Rojas V. M, Davies R. K, Reserpine treatment of Comorbid Tourette’s Disorder and Tardive Dystonia. The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 1999; 60,10.

5.  Silva RR, Rojas V.M,: Suicide and bipolar disorder in children and adolescents. - Bipolar Disorder Volume 5 of the WPA Series “Evidence and Experience in  Psychiatry” (ed: M. Maj M. Akiskal HS, Lopez-Ibor JJ, Sartorius N), Wiley Publishers, 424-426 Cichester.

6. Rojas V.M., Lee Tal N.,: PTSD, Childhood vs. Adults PTSD. Posttraumatic Stress Disorders in children and adolescents, (Handbook). Norton Publications, 237-257.

7. Rojas V.M., Pappagallo M.: Risk Factors for PTSD in Children and Adolescents. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Children & Adolescents (Handbook) Norton Publications, 38-60.

8. Pappagallo M.,  Silva R.R., Rojas V. M., Differential Diagnosis of PTSD in Children and Adolescents. Norton Publications, 218-237.

9. Rojas V. M., Article about sexual abuse. In Town Magazine, June/July 2006.

10. Rojas V. M. ADHD in Children and Adolescents.  2006.

11. Rojas V.M, Article about parents relationships in Parents Magazine 2007, 2008.

12. Raul Silva, M.D., Veronica Rojas, M.D., Dinohra Munoz Silva, M.D., Gary Gosselin,  M.D., Richard Perry, M.D., Hector Varas, M.D. and Glenn Hirsch, M.D. “Evidence based administrative initiative in Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Inpatients” American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 47^th Annual Meeting, October 24-29, 2000. 

13. Kairam R, Kugler S, Nagel N, Rojas V, Barnett M and Levenson R. Spectrum of Neurological Dysfunction in Pediatric HIV Infection. Child Neurology Society, 1991.

 14. Kairam R, Zavadski R, Rojas V, Kugler S, Mellins C and Levenson R. Range of Neurological and Psychological Dysfunction in Pediatric HIV Infection. Neuro-Science, Italy, 1991.

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