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Dr. Rebecca Kornbluh
Background
Education
2002--MPH
Harvard University, School of Public Health, Department of Health Care Management and Policy
A degree focusing on quality measurement, quality improvement, finance, and management

1997--MD
The University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine

1988--BA
St. John's College; Annapolis, Maryland and Santa Fe, New Mexico

Residency and Internship:
1997-2001 MGH/McLean Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program of Harvard Medical School; included 6 months of internal medicine

Board Certification:
2002- Board Certified in Psychiatry

State License:
1999- Massachusetts Medical License #159342
2002- California License #A79844

Academic/Employment Positions:
2004- Director, Monsour Counseling Center
2003-2005 UCLA Department of Psychiatry Assistant Psychiatrist (visiting)
2002-2004 UCLA/RAND Research Fellow in Health Services Research
2001-2002 Assistant Psychiatrist, Harvard University School of Medicine
2001-2002 Research Fellow in Addiction Psychiatry, Harvard University
2001-2002 Post Doctoral Fellow in Mental Health Services Research, Harvard
University School of Medicine

Clinical/Supervision Experience:
2003-
Consulting Psychiatrist to the Monsour Counseling Center

2002-
Outpatient Contract Psychiatrist to San Bernardino County

2001-2003
Substitute Attending Physician on substance abuse and personality disorder units as well as on the short term treatment unit of McLean Hospital

2000-2002
Supervision of residents, physician assistants, and medical students at McLean Hospital

1999-2001
Development of a web-based opiate withdrawal pathway for The Masssachusetts General Hospital's Physician Order Entry Program

2000-2001
Chief Resident of the main triage area for McLean Hospital, a large academic psychiatric hospital

2000-2001
Private psychotherapy/psychopharmacology practice

1998-2001
Outpatient psychopharmacology and psychotherapy clinic

1998-1999
Outpatient group in the personality disorders unit; McLean Hospital

1998-1999
Inpatient rotations focusing on medically ill and general acute psychiatric care; MGH/McLean

Honors and Awards:
2003
APA Health Services Research Scholar Award

2001
American Medical Association Foundation Leadership Award

1999-2001
Glaxo-Wellcome Fellowship of the American Psychiatric Association for future leaders in psychiatry 1996
William B. Bean Student Research Award--annually awarded by the American Osler Society for a proposed project on medical history and humanism

Research Funding:
2003-2004
American Psychiatric Association Health Services Research Scholar Award

2002-2004
AHRQ Training Grant in Health Services Research: UCLA/RAND

2001-2002
NIMH Training Grant in Health Policy and Health Services Research.

2001-2002
Dupont-Warren Fellowship of the Harvard Medical School Department of Psychiatry. Mentor: Shelly Greenfield, MD. 1996
American Osler Society Annual Award

Professional Service:
1999-2001
Chair and Founder of the Massachusetts Psychiatric Society's Resident Council

1999-2001
District Branch Resident Representative to the Massachusetts Psychiatric Society

1998-2002
Massachusetts Psychiatry Managed Care Committee, Resident Representative 1999-2001
Joint Committee on Government Relations of the American Psychiatric Association

Presentations:
May 2003
"The Impact of Initial Authorization on Outpatient Psychotherapy." American Psychiatric Association (APA) Annual Meeting

February 2003
"The Care of Depressed Patients with Suicidal Ideation." UCLA Department of Health Services Research

June 2002
"Changing Utilization Management, Changing Care." Tufts Health Plan, Mental Health Department

May 2002
"Managing the Management of Mental Health." Department of Health Care Management, Harvard School of Public Health

May 2001
Workshop: "The Interpretation of Dreams: Fantasy and Reality in Residency Training." APA Annual Meeting.

May 2001
Poster: "Common Practices in the Outpatient Treatment of Refractory Depression." APA Annual Meeting. Rebecca Kornbluh, M.D., Timothy Petersen, Ph.D., John B. Herman, M.D., Jerold Rosenbaum M.D., Andrew Nierenberg, M.D., Jonathan Alpert M.D., Maurizio Fava M.D.

May 2000
Poster: "A Survey of SSRI Induced Side Effects: A Survey of Psychiatrists." Christina Dording, M.D., Timothy Petersen, Ph.D., David Michelon, M.D., Rebecca Kornbluh, M.D., Jonathan E. Alpert, M.D., Ph.D., Andrew A. Nierenberg, M.D., Jerrold F. Rosenbaum, M.D., and Maurizio Fava, M.D.

May 2000
Poster: "A Survey of Prescribing Practices in the Treatment of Depression." APA annual meeting. Timothy Petersen, Ph.D., Christina Dording, M.D., Rebecca Kornbluh, M.D., Jonathan E. Alpert, M.D., Ph.D., Andrew A. Nierenberg, M.D., Jerrold F. Rosenbaum, M.D., and Maurizio Fava, M.D.

March 2000
Workshop: "How Are We Doing? Measuring Competence and Resident Satisfaction in Residency Training." AADPRT Annual Meeting.

November 1999
McLean Hospital Psychopharmacology Grand Rounds: "Quality management of behavioral disorders in a managed care setting." Rebecca Kornbluh MD Trude Kleinschnidt MD, Gary Gottlieb, MD.

October 1999
Massachusetts General Hospital Consultation-Liaison Conference: "Psychiatric consultation and length of stay: do we really make a difference?"

August 1999
Massachusetts General Hospital Consult-Liaison Conference: "Outcome measurement: defining quality in a relative world"

April 1997
Lecture: "At the Feet of Virchow: the young William Osler" American Osler Society Conference.

August 1996
Poster: "The Hippocampus and Relational Thinking" X World Conference in Psychiatry.

Publication:
Dording CM, Mischoulon D, Petersen TJ, Kornbluh R, Gordon J, Nierenberg AA, Rosenbaum JE, Fava M. The pharmacologic management of SSRI-induced side effects: a survey of psychiatrists. Ann Clin Psychiatry. 2002;14(3):143-7.

Kornbluh R, Papakostos G, Petersen T, Nicault N, Nierenberg AA, Rosenbaum JF, Fava M. A survey of prescribing preferences in the treatment of refractory depression: recent trends. Psychopharmacology Bulletin. 2001;35:150-55.

Petersen T, Dording C, Neault NB, Kornbluh R, Alpert JE, Nierenberg AA, Rosenbaum JF, Fava M.A survey of prescribing practices in the treatment of depression. Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry. 2002 Jan;26(1):177-87.

Kornbluh R, Kleinschmidt T, Sharfstein S. Over scrutinized and under supported: a resident treats a "capitated" patient. Harvard Review of Psychiatry. 2000;8:199-206. Kornbluh R. Creating a Residents' Council: a Massachusetts Tale. Psychiatric News 2000;35(17):26.
Moran TH, Kornbluh R, Moore K, Schwartz GJ. Cholecystokinin inhibits gastric emptying and contracts the pyloric sphincter in rats by interacting with low affinity CCK receptor sites. Regulatory Peptides 1994;52:165-72

Last Updated:06/22/2008