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Meet Our Medical Staff
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Dr.
Thambipillai Sureshkumar was promoted to Chief Medical
Officer on October 13, 2003 and was most recently appointed
Medical Director of Chemical Dependency Services on
September 4, 2004. Dr. Sureshkumar has been an attending
physician at Fairmount since July 1, 2001 and was initially
hired as a moonlighting physician in July 2000. He was also
on staff at the Medical College of Pennsylvania where he
completed his residency. Dr. Sureshkumar is currently a
voluntary assistant professor at Drexel University where he
provides lectures to their medical students and psychiatric
residents, and supervises psychiatric residents.
Dr. Sureshkumar graduated from the University of Colombo,
Sri Lanka in 1982 and completed his psychiatric residency in
England in 1991. Dr. Sureshkumar is Board Certified in
Psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
in the areas of General Psychiatry, Addiction Psychiatry and
Forensic Psychiatry. He is also Board Certified in
Psychiatry by the Royal College of Psychiatry, London,
United Kingdom and the Royal College of Physicians and
Surgeons in Canada.
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Dr.
Thambipallai Sureshkumar
Chief Medical Officer
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Dr. Silvia
Gratz joined the medical staff at Fairmount on June 26,
2006. She is currently the Medical Director of N3, a general
adult psychiatric unit.
Dr. Gratz completed her undergraduate studies at the LaSalle
University, Cum Laude and received her D.O. from the
Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine in 1985. After
her internship in Internal Medicine at Hahnemann University
Hospital, she completed a residency in adult psychiatry at
Hahnemann University Hospital in 1989 and a two-year
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) sponsored
fellowship in Clinical Psychopharmacology in 1991 at the
Eastern Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute (EPPI).
Board Certified in Psychiatry since 1998, Dr. Gratz has
provided her expertise in many regional psychiatric
facilities and has served as a Professor and Lecturer in the
Department of Psychiatry at EPPI and the Drexel University
College of Medicine. Notable positions include Director of
ECT and Medical Director of the Schizophrenia Center at EPPI,
Director of Adult Inpatient Services at MCP/Hahnemann and
Interim Medical Director of Hahnemann University Hospital,
Psychiatric Medical Care Unit. She has been the recipient of
many teaching awards while on staff at MCP/EPPI as well as
the Exemplary Psychiatry Award from the National Institute
of Mental Illness (NAMI) and the MCP Physician Star Award
for the Most Dedicated Doctor.
Dr. Gratz is an active member of many professional
organizations including the American Psychiatric
Association, American Medical Association, and the American
Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology. She has been
appointed and elected to several leadership positions and
committees including the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee
and Chairperson, Performance Improvement Committee at EPPI;
and the Drug Safety Monitoring Board at the Drexel
University College of Medicine. Dr. Gratz has also published
several journal articles and book chapters on
psychopharmacology particularly focusing on the treatment of
Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome and has been the recipient of
several research grants exploring treatment of Psychotic
Disorders.
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Dr. Silvia Gratz
Medical Director, N3 Adult Psychiatric Unit
President of the Medical Staff
Dr. Silvia Gratz was elected President of the Medical Staff
in October 2009
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Dr. Edward
Moore attended Hahnemann University School of Medicine,
achieving his M.D. degree in 1990. Following an internship
at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital he completed his
residency in psychiatry and also a fellowship in child and
adolescent psychiatry at Hahnemann University Hospital.
Board certified since April 1996, Dr. Moore has provided
leadership at many Philadelphia/South Jersey area
institutions since returning to this area after a brief
stint in private practice in the Norfolf/Virginia Beach
area. Notable positions have included Directorship of the
Extended Acute Unit of Girard Medical Center; appointment as
Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of
Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and the Medical
Directorship at the Bridge Drug/Alcohol Adolescent Rehab
Program. He has been the Director of Child and Adolescent
Services at Fairmount BHS since 2003.
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Dr. Edward
Moore
Medical Director, Child/Adolescent Services
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Dr. Dunzik
attended Temple University School of Medicine in
Philadelphia and graduated in 1992. He completed his
residency in Psychiatry at the Institute of Pennsylvania
Hospital in 1996. He has also received additional training
in Psychoanalysis at the Philadelphia Center for
Psychoanalysis. Dr. Dunzik received board certification in
1999 by the American Board of Neurology and Psychiatry.
For the period of September 1998 through August 1999 Dr.
Dunzik was a volunteer faculty member of the Thomas
Jefferson University School of Medicine where he taught
first year medical students; and he also supervised PCOM
medical students on psychiatry rotations at Mercy Hospital
during this same period.
From July of 1997 through 2000 Dr. Dunzik served as the
Medical Director on the Inpatient Psychiatric Unit at Mercy
Hospital of Philadelphia. For the past five years Dr. Dunzik
has served as Medical Director of the N4 Unit at Fairmount
Behavioral Health System, which serves dual-diagnosis
patients.
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Dr. Scott
Dunzik
Medical Director,
N4 Adult Inpatient Unit
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Dr. Vijaya
Velagapudi
(not pictured)
Attending Physician, Child/Adolescent Unit |
In 1980 Dr.
Velagapudi enrolled at Gunter Medical College of Nagarjuna
University where she received her medical degree in 1986. In
1995 Dr. Velagapudi completed a Fellowship Appointment in
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, from the Philadelphia Child
Guidance Center.
In 1995 Dr. Velagapudi was appointed Medical Director of the
Child and Adolescent Program at Allegheny University
Hospital, Mt. Sinai, where she remained until 1997. She
worked for one year at Foundations Behavioral Health as an
Inpatient Psychiatrist from 1997 to 1998; and began working
part-time at the Bethanna Mental Health Clinic and Life
Counseling Center in 2001. She continues to work part-time
as a child psychiatrist in the Outpatient Program at
Northwestern Human Services of Philadelphia. Dr. Velagapudi
came to Fairmount Behavioral Health System in 2001 where she
is employed as a full-time psychiatrist on our
child/adolescent inpatient unit.
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Dr.
Gretchen Magnani
Medical Director, N1 Adult Inpatient Unit |
In September
2007, Dr. Gretchen Magnani joined Fairmount as the Medical
Director of the N-1 Adult Inpatient Unit. Dr. Magnani
graduated summa cum laude from the University of New Mexico
in Albuquerque, New Mexico with a Bachelor of Science
degree. She then received her Doctor of Medicine degree from
the University of New Mexico School Of Medicine.
Completing her psychiatry residency training in Philadelphia
at Drexel University College of Medicine in 2004, Dr.
Magnani served as a Chief Resident and received several
awards including the 2003 Psychiatry Resident Award of
Excellence, 2003-2004 Residency Award for Clinical
Excellence, and the 2003-2004 Residency Award for Overall
Excellence. She became Board Certified in Psychiatry in
2005.
Dr. Magnani’s history at Fairmount goes back to 2003 when
she originally joined as a moonlighting physician. After
completion of her residency, she became an Attending
Psychiatrist on the PCU Unit, Fairmount’s Dual-Diagnosis
Inpatient Unit. In 2005, she was appointed the Medical
Director of the PCU Unit.
Most recently, from 2005-2007, Dr. Magnani was an Assistant
Professor of Psychiatry at Drexel University College of
Medicine. She served as the Site Director of the Outpatient
Rotation for the Adult Psychiatry Residents assigned to NHS
Human Services, a Community Mental Health Clinic in Mount
Airy. In addition, she worked as a consulting Psychiatrist
to the Bryn Mawr College Student Health Center. Dr. Magnani
will be maintaining her affiliation with Drexel by
continuing as a volunteer faculty member.
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Dr.
Bornfriend joined the medical staff of Fairmount Behavioral
Health System on June 7, 2010. She received her Bachelor of
Arts degree from Brown University where she graduated with
Honors in Biology, in 1982.
She attended the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center,
Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine where she
earned her Doctor of Medicine degree in 1987. She completed
her residency in Psychiatry at the Timberlawn Psychiatric
Hospital in Dallas Texas in 1990 and a Fellowship in Child
Psychiatry in 1992. She is triple-boarded in the fields of
Psychiatry, Child/Adolescent Psychiatry, and Forensic
Psychiatry.
Dr. Bornfriend has had a very distinguished and varied
career working at several hospitals in Philadelphia and New
Jersey, as well as operating a private practice since 1983.
Most recently, she comes to Fairmount from the North
Philadelphia Health System where she was a Director at St.
Joseph’s Hospital in Philadelphia and a Staff Psychiatrist
at Girard Medical Center.
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Dr.
Jasmine Gill
Medical Director,
Acute Partial Hospitalization Program
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Dr.
Jasmine Gill has been appointed the new Medical Director of
the Partial Hospitalization Program as of July 12, 2010. Dr.
Gill graduated from St. Christopher's College of Medicine in
2005 and completed her Psychiatry Residency training at
Cooper University Hospital in Camden, NJ. She received the
prestigious "Thomas Newmark Award" appointed by the Chairman
of the Psychiatry department to the resident who best
displayed excellence in patient care.
Dr. Gill is
an active member of many professional organizations
including the American Psychiatric Association and the
American Medical Association. She has also published several
journal articles and continues to pursue her passion for
learning and education. She is committed to the field of
psychiatry and is an advocate to heighten awareness of
mental illness amongst the community.
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