David Hellerstein, MD Curriculum Vita
Education and Training:
He received an A.B. in History and Literature from Harvard College in 1976
and an M.D. from Stanford University in 1980. After completing residency
training program in psychiatry at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center
in 1984, and a fellowship in Public Psychiatry at Columbia Presbyterian Medical
Center-New York State Psychiatric Institute in 1985, he moved to Beth Israel
Medical Center in 1985. He is now director of the Outpatient Psychiatry Division.
Literary Activities and Consultation
A member of PEN and Authors Guild, Dr. Hellerstein has been a contributing
editor for Science Digest, 7 Days Magazine, MD Magazine, and North American
Review. He received the Pushcart Prize award for best essay in 1981, and
several MacDowell Colony fellowships. He has been consultant to the Public
Broadcasting Systems for its television series, "Managing our Miracles: Health
Care in America," and to Health Affairs magazine, and is a reviewer for
professional journals including: Pychosomatics, the American Journal of
Psychiatry, and CNS Drugs. He is currently President of the New York County
District Branch of the American Psychiatric Association.
Research:
Dr. Hellerstein has served as investigator, co-principal investigator, or
principal investigator on approximately 15 research grants, which have been
funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute of
Drug Abuse, and various pharmaceutical companies. He is currently involved
in research projects on St. John's Wort in depression; Lamictal (lamotrigine)
in manic depressive illness; Wellbutrin in chronic depression; combined
medication and group therapy in chronic depression; and the effects of assertive
case management on the care of patients with coexisting schizophrenia and
substance abuse disorders.
David Hellerstein PUBLICATIONS:
LITERARY BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. BOOKS:
A Family of Doctors, nonfiction, Hill & Wang, 1994; paperback: Ivy, 1995
Loving Touches, novel, Houghton Mifflin, 1987; paperback: Warner, 1988
Battles of Life and Death, essay collection, Houghton Mifflin,
1987; paperback: Warner, 1987
Stone Babies, novel, Electronpress.com, 2000
2. BOOK CHAPTERS, ANTHOLOGIES:
"On Medicine and Literature: An Interview with Robert Coles," in Conversations
With Robert Coles, ed. by Jay Woodruff and Sarah Carew Woodruff, U Press
of Mississippi, 1992 Jackson, Miss., 91-111
"Touching," in On Doctoring, ed. by R. Reynolds, MD and J. Stone, MD, Simon
and Schuster, New York, 1991, 395-8
"Men and Women Can Share Role Responsibilities," in Male/Female Roles, ed.
DL Bender, Greenhaven Press, San Diego, 1988, 65-69
"On Medicine and Literature: An Interview with Robert Coles," in Times of
Surrender, selected essays by Robert Coles, U. of Iowa Press, 1988, 59-76
"Cures That Kill," in Shaping Prose, ed. S. Gillespie, Little Brown, 1984
"A Death in the Glitter Palace," in Pushcart Prize VI: The Best of the Small
Presses, 1981-2, ed. W. Henderson, Pushcart Press, 53-68 (won Best Essay
Award)
3. SHORT STORIES:
"Lili," North American Review, Sept-October, 1996, 34-39
"The Ghost of the Bronx," MD Magazine, March 1990, 90-98
"Crack Time," Fiction, vol. 9, #2, Spring 1989, 61-71
"Killer Butterfly," North American Review, Summer 1987, 39-43
"Thousands of Them," Yankee Magazine, July 1987, 76-9, 108-14
"The Study of the Heart," Medical Heritage, March/April 1986, 108-113
"The Spirit of the Grove," North American Review, Fall 1984,
4. ESSAYS:
"Reinventing the Egg," Hippocrates, August 1996
"Surgical Warrior," Ohio Magazine, February 1995, 11-13
"A Family of Doctors," MD Magazine, June 1992, 186-194
"Disruptions," Living Well Magazine, Spring 1992, 127-8
"A Complete Theory of Ghosts," North American Review, Summer 1991, 56-60
"A Walkout in the Sinking Empire," North American Review, Winter 1989
"The Hope Epidemic," Mirabella, October 1989, 87
"The Indoor Kid," 7 Days, February 8, 1989, 36-7
"Tears After Bedtime," 7 Days, May 25, 1988, 28
"Dad's Morning Out," 7 Days, September 7, 1988, 27-8
"Vectors," North American Review, Winter 1988,
"Heart Versus Time," North American Review, Winter 1987,
"Deconstruction," NAR, Winter 1986,
"Us and Them: Just What Are Attendings For?" Massachusetts Medicine,
November/December 1986, 17-22
"How Did She Do It?" Working Mother,
"Convention," NAR, Summer 1986,
"Gloria," NAR, Winter 1985,
"The Middle Dominions," NAR, Summer 1985, 54-59
"The Assistant," NAR, Winter 1984, 51-55
"The Heat," Esquire, July 1985, 75-80
"Studies of the Heart," NAR, Summer 1984, 56-60
"On Becoming a Psychiatrist," Science Digest, 1986,
"The Training of a Gynecologist," Ms., November 1984, 136-7
"The Madonna of Red Hook," NAR, Summer 1982, 53-57
"Children of the Valley," NAR, Summer, 1983, 52-57
"The Battle for the Dead," Esquire, May 1982, 83-90
"Beds," NAR, Winter 1983, 4-10
"The Gray Ones," NAR, Winter 1981, 47-53
"Fire in the Hills," NAR, Summer 1981,
"Border Lines," Esquire, November 1982, 126-135
"Related Illnesses," NAR, Winter 1980, 57-63
"The Electric Prince," NAR, Winter 1982, 50-55
"A Death in the Glitter Palace," NAR, Spring 1980, 18-23
5. ARTICLES:
"Letting Go of Payne Whitney," New York Times Magazine, November 6, 1994,
50-51
"You're Not Nuts, You're Just Dysthymic," 7 Days, September 20, 1989,
"Now the Psychiatrist Can Do More Than Just Listen," TV Guide, October 8,
1988, 14-15
"Spying on Guys," Mademoiselle, January 1989, 105-47
"The Body on the Sidewalk: AIDS, Homelessness, Crack, and the Public Life
of Death," 7 Days, October 19, 1988, (cover story), 21-25
"Inside Dope on Thorazine, Lithium and Prozac," 7 Days, November 2, 1988,
33-34
"It's Life and Death. You're a Hostage. How Would You--How Should You--React?"
TV Guide, April 30, 1988, 4-7
"Men in the '80's. Multiplying Roles: The Next Stage," Ms., October 1987,
48-50
"TV and Marriage," TV Guide, September 1987, 4-7
"High Speed Shrinking," Science Digest, 1986, 60-63, 82
(artificial skin) Science Digest, 1986
(combining psychotherapy and medication) American Health,May 1985
"When Men Won't Grow Up," Esquire, October 1983 (cover story)
"Overdosing on Medical Technology," Technology Review, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, August 1983, 12-17
"The Slow Costly Death of Mrs. K.," Harper's (annotation), March 1984, 84-90
"Cures That Kill," Harper's, December 1980, 20-24
6. INTERVIEWS/PROFILES:
"A Case Study," Interview of Oliver Sacks, neurologist, New York Woman, December
1990, 99-103
"Plotting a Theory of the Brain," interview of Nobel Laureate Gerald M. Edelman,
New York Times Magazine, May 22,1988 (cover story), 16-19, 27-28, 55, 61,
64
"Computers on the Couch," profile of Sherry Turkle, Esquire, December 1985,
"The Muse of Medicine," interview of Lewis Thomas, Esquire, March 1984,
"On Medicine and Literature: An Interview with Robert Coles," North American
Review, Spring 1981,
"The Realms of Chance," profile of novelist Margaret Drabble, Harvard Magazine,
October 1980 (won David McCord Essay Prize), 57-60
7. REVIEWS: (partial listing)
"Treating Minds Amid the Maelstrom," review of Crazy all the Time, by Frederick
L. Covan, and The Mad Among Us, by Gerald N. Grob, Newsday, March 27, 1994,
43
review of Hollywood on the Couch, by Stephen Farger and Marc Green, Elle,
August 1993
"Medicine in the Courtroom," review of Trials of an Expert Witness, by Harold
Klawans, MD Magazine, March 1992, 145
"Speaking in Silence," review of A Man Without Words, by Susan Schaller,
MD Magazine, May 1991, 99.
"A Delicate Balance," review of Other Women's Children, by Perri Klass, MD
Magazine, March 1991, 110-111
review of Patricia Yoomtob and T. Schwartz, The Gift of Life, New York Times
Book Review, 1987
review of Nancy Friday, Jealousy, Vogue
review of Jay Katz, Medicine: The Silent Profession, The Sciences, New York
Academy of Sciences, October 1984, 53-54
8. AWARDS/FELLOWSHIPS:
1988 MacDowell Colony Fellowship
1986 MacDowell Colony Fellowship
1984 MacDowell Colony Fellowship
1981 Pushcart Prize Best Essay Award
1981 Harvard Magazine David McCord Essay Prize
9. CONTRIBUTING EDITORSHIPS:
1992-5 Contributing Editor, Living Well Magazine
1990-5 Contributing Editor, MD Magazine
1988-90 Contributing Editor, 7 Days
1981-present Contributing Editor, North American Review
1985-87 Contributing Editor, Science Digest
SCIENTIFIC PUBL:ICATIONS
A. Original Communications in Reviewed Journals:
1) Polan HJ, Hellerstein D, Amchin J: The impact of AIDS-related cases on
an inpatient therapeutic milieu. Hospital and Community Psychiatry 1985;13:173-6
2) Hellerstein D, Frosch W, Koenigsberg H: The clinical significance of command
hallucinations. American Journal of Psychiatry 1987;144:219-21
3) Hellerstein D, Meehan B: Outpatient group therapy for schizophrenic substance
abusers. American Journal of Psychiatry 1987;144:1337-40
4) Hellerstein D, Barron C, Schwartz H, Zolkind N: A rating inventory for
resident case presentations. Academic Psychiatry 1991;15:146-152
5) Hellerstein D, Prager M: Assessing HIV risk in the general hospital
psychiatric clinic. General Hospital Psychiatry 1992;14:3-6
6) Rosenthal RN, Hellerstein DJ, Miner CR: A model of integrated services
for outpatient treatment of patients with comorbid schizophrenia and addictive
disorders. American Journal on Addictions 1992;1:339-348
7) Rosenthal J, Hemlock C, Hellerstein DJ, Yanowitch P, Kasch K, Schupak
C, Samstag L, Winston A: A preliminary study of serotonergic antidepressants
in treatment of dysthymia. Progress in Neuropsychopharmacology and Biological
Psychiatry 1992;16:933-941
8) Rosenthal RN, Hellerstein DJ, Miner CR: Integrated services for treatment
of schizophrenic substance abusers: demographics, symptoms and substance
abuse patterns. Psychiatric Quarterly 1992;63:3-26
9) Hellerstein DJ, Yanowitch P, Rosenthal J, Samstag LW, Maurer M, Kasch
K, Burrows L, Poster M, Cantillon M, Winston A: A randomized double-blind
study of fluoxetine versus placebo in treatment of dysthymia. American Journal
of Psychiatry 1993;150:1169-1175
10) Hellerstein DJ, Yanowitch P, Rosenthal J, Hemlock C, Kasch K, Wallner
Samstag L, Winston A: Long-term treatment of double depression with serotonergic
antidepressants: a preliminary study. Progress in Neuropsychopharmacology
and Biological Psychiatry 1994;18:139-147
11) Rosenthal RN, Hellerstein DJ, Miner CR: Positive and negative syndrome
typology in schizophrenic patients with psychoactive substance use disorders.
Comprehensive Psychiatry 1994;35:91-98
12) Hellerstein DJ, Flansaas D, Zweben L, Samstag LW: The clinical implications
of benzodiazepine regulation. Hospital and Community Psychiatry 1994; 45:362-365
13) Hellerstein DJ, Rosenthal RN, Miner CR: Integrated outpatient treatment
for substance-abusing schizophrenics: a prospective study. American Journal
on Addictions 1995;4:33-42
14) Hellerstein DJ, Rosenthal RN, Pinsker H: Supportive therapy as the treatment
model of choice. The Journal of Psychotherapy Practice and Research
1994;3:300-306
15) Hellerstein DJ, Little SAS: SSRI medications in the treatment of dysthymia
and chronic depression. Journal of Serotonin Research 1994;1:181-187
16) Hellerstein DJ, Pinsker H, Rosenthal RN, Klee S (letter): Supportive
therapy and the model of natural conversation. J Psychotherapy Practice and
Research 1995;4:183
17) Hellerstein DJ, Little SAS: Current perspectives on the diagnosis and
treatment of double depression. CNS Drugs 1996; 5:344-357
18) Hellerstein DJ, Samstag LW, Cantillon M, Maurer M, Rosenthal J, Yanowitch
P, Winston A: Long-term follow-up of medication-treated dysthymia. Progress
in Neuropsychopharm and Biol Psychiatr 1996; 20:427-442
19) Kocsis JH, Zisook S, Davidson J, Shelton R, Yonkers K, Hellerstein DJ,
Rosenbaum J, Halbreich U: Double-blind comparison of sertraline, imipramine,
and placebo in the treatment of dysthymia: psychosocial outcomes. American
Journal of Psychiatry 1997;154:390-395
20) Miner CR, Rosenthal RN, Hellerstein DJ: Through the revolving door:
prediction of dropout in substance-abusing schizophrenic patients in outpatient
group treatment, Archives of General Psychiatry 1997;54:706-712
21) Hellerstein D: Keeping secrets, telling tales: the psychiatrist as writer.
Journal of Medical Humanities 1997;18:127-139
22) Hellerstein DJ, Little SAS: Diagnosis and treatment of double depression.
Patient Management 1997;11-14
23) Hellerstein DJ, Rosenthal RN, Pinsker H, Samstag LW, Muran JC, Winston
A: A randomized prospective study comparing supportive and dynamic therapies:
outcome and alliance. Journal of Psychiatric Practice and Research 1998;7:261-271
24) Rosenthal RN, Muran JC, Pinsker H, Hellerstein DJ, Winston A: Interpersonal
change in brief supportive psychotherapy. J of Psychotherapy Practice and
Research 1998;8:55-63
25) Postolache TT, Rosenthal RN, Hellerstein DJ, Aromin R, Kelton GM, Muran
JC, Londono JH: Early augmentation of sertraline with methylphenidate in
major depression (letter). J Clinical Psychiatry 1999;60:123-4
26) Hellerstein DJ, Batchelder S, Little SAS, Fedak M, Kreditor D, Rosenthal
J: Venlafaxine in the treatment of dysthymic disorder: an open-label study.
J of Clinical Psychiatry, in press, 1999
B. Books, Chapters in Books, and Review Articles:
1) Hellerstein D: Battles of Life and Death, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1986;
paperback: Warner, New York, 1987
2) Hellerstein D: Overdosing on medical technology. In: Contemporary Moral
Controversies in Technology, edited by A.P. Iannone, Oxford University Press,
New York, 1987, 141-145
3) Hellerstein D: Men and women can share role responsibilities. In: Male/Female
Roles, B. Leone, exec. editor, Greenhaven Press, San Diego, CA, 1988, 65-7
4) Hellerstein D: Loving Touches, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1987; paperback:
Warner, New York, 1988
5) Hellerstein D: On Medicine and Literature: An interview with Robert Coles.
In: Times of Surrender: Selected essays by Robert Coles. U. of Iowa Press,
Iowa City, 1988, 59-76
6) Hellerstein D: Overdosing on medical technology. In: Ethics and the
Professions, edited by D. Applebaum and S. Lawton, Prentice Hall, Englewood
Cliffs, NJ, 1990, 108-112
7) Hellerstein D: The slow, costly death of Mrs. K. In: Envisioning Information,
Edward Tufte, Graphics Press, Cheshire, CT, 1990, 56-57
8) Hellerstein D: On Medicine and Literature. In: Conversations With Robert
Coles, edited by J. Woodruff and S.C. Woodruff, University Press of Mississippi,
Jackson, Mississippi, 1992, 91-112
9) Hellerstein D: A Family of Doctors, Hill and Wang, New York, 1994; paperback:
Ivy Books, New York, 1995
10) Hellerstein DJ, Shomstein L: Medically ill substance abusers in group
therapy. In: The Group Psychotherapy of Substance Abuse, eds. Brook DW, Spitz
HI, American Psychiatric Press, Washington D.C., 1999 (in press)
11) Hellerstein DJ, Little SAS: Current perspectives on the diagnosis and
treatment of double depression. In: Disease Management Review-Depression.
Auckland: Adis International, 1998:II:49-62
12) Hellerstein DJ, Little SAS: Current perspectives on the diagnosis and
treatment of double depression. In: Managing Depressive Disorders. Adis books,
Auckland, 2000:59-73 |