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About Dr Naum Vaisman

Born in Iasi Romania, Dr. Naum Vaisman is certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, and has been a member of such organizations as the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine and the American Academy of Psychoanalysis. Having most recently served as the clinical assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry at SUNY, and the chief of geriatric psychiatry for the Methodist Hospital, Dr. Naum Vaisman began working in the psychiatric sector more than six decades ago.

A graduate of the Chernovetsky State Medical Institute in Leningrad, Dr. Vaisman practiced in some of the city’s most preeminent psychiatric clinical facilities before moving to the United States. In these facilities, he focused largely on working as a geriatric and general psychiatrist and published numerous scientific works related to geriatric psychiatry, presenile dementia, and senile dementia.

Upon moving to the United States, Dr. Naum Vaisman completed his residency training and post-doctoral fellowship at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and Yale University School of Medicine. For a brief period of time, he worked as a staff psychiatrist for the FDR VA Hospital in New York before accepting his most recent roles at the Methodist Hospital and SUNY/Downstate Medical Center in 1979.