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Dr. Indra Cidambi is currently the Director of Addiction Services at Summit Oaks Hospital (New Jersey, USA) and has her own private practice in Morristown, NJ. In addition to therapeutic and pharmacological treatment for addiction, substance abuse and psychiatric illnesses, Dr. Cidambi provides evaluation, testimony and expert witness services for forensic cases.
Previously she was the Director of Drug Rehab at Summit Oaks Hospital, NJ, where she also played a major role in programs designed for GLBT (gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender) persons. She has worked with developmentally disabled patients at the Woodbridge Developmental Center in New Jersey.
Dr Cidambi gained her Medical degree at Second Tashkent State Medical Institute (former U.S.S.R.) Her post doctoral training includes residencies and fellowships: Psychiatry residency at Maimonides Medical Center, New York, where she was the Chief Resident, and a Fellowship in Addiction Psychiatry at New York University Medical School / Bellevue Hospital. She also underwent a year of psychoanalytic training at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute.
Her research papers include: Benefits of Music Therapy in Dual Diagnosis (drug dependency and psychiatric illness) Patients and Comparing Insured and Un-insured Patients’ Length of Stay in an In-Patient Unit. During Dr. Cidambi’s residency at Maimonides, she ran the Forum for Psychoanalytic Study of Film.
Dr Cidambi has a license to practice in both the state of New Jersey and the state of New York. She is board-certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN) in General Psychiatry. In Addiction Medicine she is double board certified; by ABPN and also by the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM). She has a Controlled Substance Registration in Narcotics Certification. Dr. Cidambi is currently a member of the American Psychiatric Association and is a Chair in a professional society.
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