About
Dr. Resnick is board-certified and maintains clinical practice and expertise in General Psychiatry as well as Pain Medicine and Palliative Medicine, and in Addiction Medicine, the only physician in the country with this combined specialization. He has pursued scientific investigation, written journal articles, and contributed to texts in these fields. Dr. Resnick attended Mount Sinai School of Medicine where he received a Distinction in Research and participated in the Humanities and Medicine Program. He was selected to this early in his undergraduate education at best nationally-ranked Williams College where he graduated Cum Laude with a BA in English. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a Fellow of the American Society of Addiction Medicine. He is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine where he underwent training in the psychiatry residency program through which he also worked at Bellevue Hospital Center, as well as at the New York Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Lenox Hill Hospital, and Kirby Forensic Psychiatric Center. He pursued a fellowship in Pain and Palliative Care at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center where he is one of the few psychiatrists to have completed the program in its history. He completed the program in psychodynamic psychotherapy through the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research and the fellowship in psychopharmacology through the Neuroscience Education Institute, maintaining expertise in both of these clinical modalities. In his practice, he has always provided cutting-edge treatments in psychiatry and addiction, including opioid treatment and antagonist therapies- waivered to provide buprenorphine treatment with Suboxone as well as specialty training to administer Sublocade implants, as well as Vivitrol injections; is REMS-certified and provides Spravato (esketamine) for severe or treatment-resistant depression, and serves as a consulting psychiatrist for transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) in collaboration with Fermata Psychiatrist Services.
Dr. Resnick currently serves as Chief Medical Officer of Westchester Jewish Community Services, a a non-profit organization that was founded in 1943 and has grown to be the largest provider of licensed outpatient community mental health services and one of the largest human service agencies in Westchester County, providing state-of-the-art programs and services and compassionate care to more than 20,000 people of all ages and backgrounds throughout Westchester. WJCS is a comprehensive human services organization that helps people of all ages and backgrounds overcome emotional, social, educational, vocational, disability, and spiritual challenges so they can lead lives with strength, resilience, and confidence, and is designated as a Certified Community Behavioral Health Center, licensed to operate mental health clinics by the NYS Office of Mental Health (OMH), including integrated mental health and substance abuse services.
He is an entrepreneur with experience leading and consulting in a range of start-up innovative ventures within the healthcare technology, pharmaceutical, and menta health services spaces. He is working with Integral Health to establish a behavioral health practice alongside integrated care in the primary care setting coupled with AI-supported care management to assist individuals in gaining much-needed access to mental health services. He is a scientific advisor to Brain Health Restoration, a company dedicated to expanding interventional psychiatry practices using MeRT which uses TMS, a magnetic brain stimulation therapy, guided by EEG which measures brain electrical activity, along with other novel evidence-based treatment approaches to brain health. Past ventures included Chief Medical Officer at Universiti Labs, a virtual reality platform providing healthy and healthful metaverse engagement while offering the full breadth of health and wellness services and resources, and as Program Designer and consultant for Mend Health, an app for offering an interdisciplinary approach to transitional and self care for chronic pain management providing and drawing on psychosocial and physical therapies and other strategies and resources for health and wellness. He has served in consultancy as Medical Director to Therapix Biosciences Ltd., a specialty biopharmaceutical company focused on cannabinoid-based therapies for CNS and pain disorders, for which he provides clinical input into innovating a patient-centered management technology platform as well as expertise in guiding the company's enterprises in pioneering and diversifying treatment in the field of chronic pain.
Dr. Resnick previously served for nearly 7 years as the founding Chair of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health at Advantage Care Physicians, among the largest multisite ambulatory primary and multispecialty care center in the New York metro area with over 35 clinics where he is responsible for establishing and overseeing the implementation and expansion of the behavioral health program through integrated care. Prior to that, he served as the Chief of General Medical Psychiatric Services at Lenox Hill Hospital, and an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Hofstra University School of Medicine. He was previously Service Chief of the Chronic Pain and Recovery Center at Silver Hill Hospital in New Canaan, Connecticut, where he treated patients with a condition that is complex and multifactorial, requiring the interdisciplinary approach provided at this unique and innovative program, addressing a major issue in contemporary medicine in an area of high clinical need with no other such intensive comprehensive treatment available in the region. Prior to that, Dr. Resnick served as Director of Supportive Services at Continuum Cancer Centers of New York, staffing the Departments of Psychiatry as an Attending Physician at both St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital Center and Beth Israel Medical Center where he was jointly appointed and maintained an affiliation in the Department of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care as he continued to pursue clinical study in this area. His unique background, including specialty training in an oncology setting, served his vision to provide interdisciplinary care in supporting individuals with cancer through all stages of their disease in managing and coping with associated physical symptoms, psychosocial issues, and spiritual distress.
Dr. Resnick has an interest in brain stimulation therapies, including Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation and Direct Current Stimulation, as well as Electroconvulsive Therapy, for Mood Disorders and other psychiatric conditions as well as various pain syndromes, and is affiliated with the Institute for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation of New York within the Beth Israel Department of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care, contributing to research conducted there. He has also formulated a study on the Psychological Aspects of Cosmetic Plastic Surgery, also speculating about contrasting effects of facial deformity and reconstructive surgery in patients with breast and head & neck cancer.
Dr. Resnick has experience training in other modalities of psychotherapy including acceptance commitment therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, cognitive-behavior therapy, and intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy. He is also a proponent of adjuvant approaches to achieving health and wellness, including acupuncture and other mind-body therapies.
Dr. Resnick describes his practice at Gamut Psychotherapeutics: