Marcela Bonafina Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

New York, NY, US

Virtual Medical Center/MEDCEN IndoPacific/CIONUS/Europe

Assessment and treatment of Service Members of the United States Armed Forces with the cutting-edge technology and strategy of tele-behavioral health services. Thank Currently serving patients from 19 Military Treatment Facilities around works.

Washington DC

Provide treatment of all levels of complexity.Provide evaluation and treatment services in the outpatient setting.Supervise subordinates by planning work and providing feedback.Identify developmental and training needs.Provide expert, objective assessments to patients.Perform triage and intake evaluations and provide treatment strategies.Direct a major.

Washington DC

• Comprehensive neuropsychological testing of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) among Active Duty Service Members.
• Psychological evaluation of PTSD and trauma related disorders; somatization, conversion and functional neurological disorder; other differential diagnoses.
• Supervision of psychometricians, oversight of office operations, and acquisition of testing materials and related materials.
• Coordination, planning, and organization of the agenda for TBI-multidisciplinary weekly team meetings.
• Performance as liaison with the scientific community to provide neuropsychology-related trainings for Behavioral Health Providers.
• Coordination of Telehealth Neuropsychological evaluations.

Washington, District Of Columbia / New York, NY

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States / New York, NY

• Clinical PracticeResponsibilities:
• Psychological and neuropsychological assessment (children through elderly adults)
• Outpatient adult treatment services specialized in intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy (ISTDP) and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)
• Prolonged exposure (PE) therapy for PTSD
• Individual, group, and family interventions for neurologically impaired patients and their families
• Cognitive remediation

Manhattan, New York

• ConsultantNortheast Regional Epilepsy Group Locations: Hackensack Medical Center and Manhattan Office.Responsibilities:
• Neuropsychological assessment of patients with epilepsy and other neurological populations (e.g., stroke, dementia).
• Supervised prolonged exposure therapy with patients with psychogenic seizures.
• Social media manager of Facebook Pages: Epilepsy Life Links and Epilepsia en Latino América.

Greater New York City Area

• Responsibilities:
• Neuropsychological assessment of patients with epilepsy and other neurological populations (e.g., stroke, dementia, non-epileptic seizures)
• Individual psychotherapy and cognitive remediation groups (in English and in Spanish) for patients with epilepsy.
• Social media manager of Facebook Pages: Epilepsy Life Links and Epilepsia en Latino América.

Greater New York City Area

• Responsibilities:
• Neuropsychological evaluations
• Treatment recommendations for patients with dementia, traumatic brain injury, PTSD, and other neurological insults).

Puerto Rico

• Responsibilities:
• Crisis intervention and debriefing.
• Individual, couple and family supportive psychotherapy.

San Juan, Puerto Rico

• Responsibilities:
• Crisis intervention and debriefing
• Individual supportive psychotherapy

San Juan, Puerto Rico

• Responsibilities:
• Pre-employment screening
• Fitness for duty evaluations.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Time Commitment: 8-16 hours per week.Responsibilities:
• Neuropsychological and psychological evaluations of adults and geriatric patients with a variety of medical and neurological illnesses.
• Inpatient brief supportive psychotherapy and behavioral modification Weekly Caseload: 1-2 evaluations, 3-4 bedside psychotherapy cases.

Greater New York City Area

Greater New York City Area

• Supervisor: Manuel Trujillo, M.D.Responsibilities:
• Individual psychotherapy
• Weekly supervision
• Training with video-taped sessions

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Time Commitment: 45-50 hours per week.Responsibilities:
• Psychological and neuropsychological assessment of children and adolescents with learning disabilities, behavioral and psychiatric disorders.
• Individual and family psychotherapy.
• Weekly community outreach activities for children, parents and teachers (in English and in Spanish) within the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District.
• Weekly group-based parenting classes to address the management of behavioral problems of children in elementary school (in Spanish) at the Virginia Avenue Park and Community Center, Santa Monica.Weekly Caseload: 1.

Greater New York City Area

Graduate Course: Psychological Testing.

Greater New York City Area

• Time Commitment: 40 hours per week.Responsibilities:
• Daily mental health screening of survivors of the 9/11 attacks (first- responders, residents, students, workers, passersby)
• Diagnosis and daily case presentation
• Individual psychotherapy
• Trauma-focused PTSD groups in English and in Spanish
• Supervision of interns and externsWeekly Caseload: mental health screening of 70-75 outpatient cases; 3-4 individual outpatient supportive psychotherapy cases; 4 trauma-focused PTSD groups (2 in Spanish; 2 in English).

Greater New York City Area

• Time Commitment: 50-60 hours per week.Responsibilities:
• Clinical management of patients in a 22-bed acute inpatient brain injury rehabilitation unit
• Bedside neuropsychological screenings at admission and thorough follow-up assessments, diagnosis and treatment plan
• Decisional capacity and competency evaluations
• Elopement risk, suicide, agitation, aggression evaluations and monitoring with standardized safety protocols
• Interface with the psychiatry consultation-liaison team

Greater New York City Area

Project Title: “Suicidal Behavior in Schizophrenia. A Prospective Longitudinal Study”. Principal Investigator: Jill M. Harkavy-Friedman, Ph.D.Department of PsychiatryColumbia University- New York State Psychiatric InstituteProject Title: “Effects of Repeated Neuropsychological Assessment on Performance in Normals”.Principal Investigator: John Keilp, Ph.D..

Greater New York City Area

Project Title: “Questionable Dementia: course and predictors of outcome”.Primary Investigator: Davengere P. Davanand, M.D.

Greater New York City Area

Project Title: “NIMH Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children Version-IV (NIMH DISC-IV)”.Primary Investigator: Christopher Lucas, M.D., M.P.H.

Greater New York City Area

Supervisor: Kenneth Perrine, Ph.D.Time Commitment: 12 hours per week.Weekly Caseload: 1 epilepsy inpatient/outpatient neuropsychological evaluation, participation in WADA testing and brain mapping, case presentation, attendance at grand-rounds and case conferences.

Greater New York City Area

ADHD and learning disabilities: clustering subgroups. Advisor: Jeffrey M. Halperin, Ph.D.

Greater New York City Area

Supervisor: Yaakov Stern, Ph.D.Time Commitment: 12 hours per week.Weekly Caseload: 1 dementia outpatient evaluation, case presentation, journal club, case conferences.

Greater New York City Area

Project Title: “Serotonin, aggression, and parental psychopathology in children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder”.Primary Investigator: Jeffrey M. Halperin, Ph.D. Childhood Disorders Research Team

Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina

Undergraduate Course: Neuropsychological assessment of learning disabilities.

Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina

• Responsibilities:
• Psychological and neuropsychological assessments of children and adolescents, specialization in verbal and non-verbal learning disabilities
• Cognitive remediation
• School intervention
• Family psychoeducation and supportive psychotherapy

Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina

• Psychological and neuropsychological evaluations of children and adolescents with verbal and non-verbal learning disabilities
• Cognitive remediation
• School intervention

Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina

Undergraduate course: Neurophysiology.Undergraduate course: Neuropsychology.Graduate course: Neuropsychology and Neurolinguistics.

Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina

Undergraduate Course: Neurophysiology.

Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina

Project Title: The process of automatic reading and writing among school-age children.Principal Investigator.Advisor: Juan E. Azcoaga, M.D.

Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina

• Time Commitment: 16 hours per week.Responsibilities:
• Neuropsychological and psychological assessment of stroke patients
• Cognitive remediation, and supportive psychotherapy
• Psychoeducation and supportive psychotherapy family groups.Weekly Caseload: 1 neuropsychological evaluation; 1 individual case of outpatient supportive psychotherapy; 1 case of outpatient cognitive remediation; 1.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Neuropsychology

“Time Estimation in Schizophrenia: Relationship to Clinical and Neuropsychological Functioning” Graduate Advisor: Jeffrey M. Halperin.

Bachelor'S Degree, Psychology

Master Of Arts - Ma, Psychology

Master Of Philosophy - Mphil, Psychology

Oral Defense: "Impulsiveness: biological, behavioral, and personality bases". Committee: Jeffrey M. Halperin, Ph.D., Doreen Berman, Ph.D..

Predoctoral Intern - Bellevue Hospital Center, Clinical Psychology

Activities and Societies:Time Commitment: 55-60 hours per week. Rotations: • Bilingual Treatment Program (4 months) • Comprehensive.

Post-Doctoral Fellow, Clinical Neuropsychology

Traumatic Brain Injury Unit, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine. Supervisor: Lucia Kellar, Ph.D.