Jane Rosenthal, MD

  • Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
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Overview

Dr. Jane Rosenthal was born in New York City and attended the University of Michigan where she earned a BA with High Honors in Social Science.  She completed medical school at George Washington University and moved back to New York to undertake a year long medical internship at Beth Israel Medical Center.  She then pursued her Psychiatry Residency and Fellowship in Consultation Liaison Psychiatry at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center.  She received her Certification in Psychoanalysis from the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, and later completed the Montefiore Einstein Certificate Program in Bioethics and Medical Humanities.  She opened a private office on the Upper West Side after completing her training.  For a decade she served as the psychiatric consultant to the Columbia Fertility Service, and worked with egg donation recipients/couples and well as prospective egg donors.  In 2008, she founded the Psychoanalytic Fellowship at the Columbia Psychoanalytic Center and remained its director for 13 years; she is now the Director Emeritus.  Also in 2008 she was recruited to NYU where she founded and then directed the Consultation Liaison Psychiatry Service at Tisch Hospital/NYU Langone Medical Center; she remained in that position for 7+ years until moving to the Perlmutter Cancer Center/NYU where she assumed leadership as the Medical Director of Psychosocial Services for nearly 6 years.  She has been a member of the Tisch Ethics Committee since 2008, and served as its chair for three years.  She also is an affiliate faculty member in the Division of Ethics, Department of Population Health/NYU Langone.  Over the years she has taught and supervised medical students, residents and fellows.  She is currently in full time private practice on the Upper West Side. 

Areas of Interest: 

Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis 

Consultation Liaison Psychiatry 

Medical Bioethics 

Psychooncology 

 

 

Jlr10@cumc.columbia.edu 

 

Private Office: 

135 Central Park West, Suite 1NW 

New York, NY 10023 

212-721-3500 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Academic Appointments

  • Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychiatry

Gender

  • Female

Credentials & Experience

Education & Training

  • BA , 1977 University of Michigan
  • MD, 1986 George Washington University
  • Certificate, 1996 Psychoanalysis, Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research
  • Certificate, 2012 Bioethics and Medical Humanities, Montefiore/Albert Einstein Medical Center
  • Residency: 1990 NYSPI/Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center
  • Fellowship: 1991 Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center

Honors & Awards

2020- Ethel Sabshin Award for teaching psychoanalytic concepts to students outside of psychoanalytic training, awarded by the American Psychoanalytic Association 

2015- Lionel Ovesey Award for Innovation in creating a Psychoanalytic Fellowship, through The Columbia Psychoanalytic Center and the Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine 

2014- Fellow, Academy of Consultation Liaision Psychiatry 

2014- Honorary Nursing Recognition Award, Tisch Hospital/NYU Langone 

2012- Team Achievement Award, Organ Transplant, NYU Langone 

1988-1990- Sol W. Ginsburg Fellow, Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry 

1986- Kane-King Obstetrics Honor Society, George Washington University Medical School 

1986- Sandoz Award, Excellence in Psychiatry, GWU Medical School 

1985- International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (student member), Nobel Peace Prize recipient