Michelle Tricamo   Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry

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Dr. Tricamo believes thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that cause conflicts in our lives can be identified and processed using a variety of techniques and methods. She aims to create a team approach as well as a safe environment to explore and develop insightful understanding which might help relieve these issues and bring comfort to patients' lives. Through empathy, patience, active listening and diligent research on her part, she believes the patient's desired goals can be achieved.

As a psychiatrist, Dr. Tricamo can provide clients with a thorough evaluation as well as recommendations for choice of therapy, medication or both. Because each individual is unique, Dr. Tricamo, partners with her patients to understand their needs, identify their goals and help them meet success. With a background in child and adolescent psychiatry, she feels she has a better understanding of the role which development plays in shaping a person's life.

Dr. Tricamo received her B.S. degree from Cornell University, graduating a semester early, Magna Cum Laude. She obtained her M.D. degree from the State University of New York at Downstate where she received AOA standing. Dr. Tricamo completed her residency in general adult psychiatry at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City where she received an award for Teaching Resident of the Year in medical student education. She went on to complete her fellowship training in child and adolescent psychiatry at New York-Presbyterian, a combined program of Cornell and Columbia Universities. Dr. Tricamo served as Co-director of the Pediatric OCD, Anxiety and Tic disorder clinic as well as Consultation-Liaison Psychiatrist for Pediatrics at the New York-Presbyterian Hospital at Weill Cornell.  In these roles, she supervised and taught adult and child residents as well as medical students.   Her teaching earned her the Resident Teaching Award in 2017.   With clinical work as her main focus, Dr. Tricamo has also participated in research producing chapters on the risk of substance use in kids with ADHD as well as on tic disorders.  She has written an article exploring the role of hormones in maintaining bulimia nervosa.  She has lectured about both adult and child anxiety disorders at Caron Treatment Centers.  While at Weill Cornell, she was a co-investigator on two research projects looking at Psychosocial Functioning, Health and Well-being in Juvenile Diabetes and Risk Factors for Weight Gain and Cardiometabolic Syndrome in Children and Adolescents on Antipsychotic Medication, recently presenting a grand rounds on this topic.  She is also in her final year of additional training in psychoanalytic psychotherapy at Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research which allows her to offer a therapeutic range to meet individual goals and needs.

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