Distinguished Colleague 2011
DR. PAUL KYMISSIS was born in Cyprus. He graduated from the University of Athens and completed his training in Psychiatry and Neurology in Greece. He received his Doctorate degree from Athens Medical School. He continued his studies in New York at the Mount Sinai Program at Elmhurst Hospital in Adult and Child Psychiatry. He is Board certified in Adult and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry. Also he did his psychoanalytic training at the Postgraduate Center of Mental Health in New York.
He served as Unit Chief of the Adolescent Program at Mt. Sinai Elmhurst program and also he became the Chief of the Mental Health Clinic for children and adolescents of the same Hospital. Later on he was elected to be the Director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry of New York Medical College. Currently he is the chief of Psychiatry at Children’s Village.
In 2010 he was elected to be the Dean of the first Medical School of Cyprus at the University of Nicosia in collaboration with St George’s University of London.
He is a Clinical professor of Psychiatry, Behavioral sciences and Pediatrics at New York Medical College and also Professor at St. George University of London, Cyprus Medical programme.
He is a distinguished life fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, a Fellow of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, a Fellow of the American group Psychotherapy Association, Member of the Association of the Professors of Child Psychiatry.
He is a past president of the World Hellenic Biomedical Association, past president of the Westchester group Psychotherapy Society. Past president of the Greek American behavioral sciences Institute.
He wrote 6 Books, about 15 chapters in Books and about 45 scientific articles. His Book Group therapy for Children and Adolescents was translated into Italian in Italy. Most of his research was focused on Group psychotherapy Also he wrote on the relationship between Religion and Psychiatry.
Hospital, and he received academic appointments at New York University, Cornell University Medical College, and New York Medical College prior to being appointed Clinical Professor of Medicine at the New York University School of Medicine. Dr. Michelis has been selected for inclusion in the listing of Top Doctors in New York for the past several years. He is the co-Editor of several medical textbooks, and he has published dozens of articles in the area of general nephrology, electrolyte disorders, and hypertension, as well as geriatric renal disease.
He has lectured extensively throughout the United States, as well as presented lectures in Hawaii, Japan, and in various European cities. He has served on the editorial board of several medical journals, and he also reviews articles for established journals in nephrology. He has received many awards and lectureships for his work in nephrology. He is a former President of the International Society for Geriatric Nephrology and Urology, and he continues to publish and lecture on issues related to medical problems in nephrology and hypertension. Dr. Michelis has also been awarded the certificate of Specialist in Clinical Hypertension by the American Society of Hypertension and was recently awarded the title of Fellow of the American Society of Nephrology.
He has had a major interest in disorders of serum sodium throughout his career but also has significant experience in other areas of clinical nephrology. He is a founding member of the medical practice group Kidney and Hypertension Specialists of New York, P.C. During his tenure in Pittsburgh, Dr. Michelis directed clinical studies which characterized a previously unrecognized genetic kidney disease now referred to as the Michelis-Castrillo Syndrome. He is grateful for the support and encouragement from his wife of 39 years Mary Ann and his daughters Elizabeth and Katherine. Dr. Michelis has been a member of The Hellenic Medical Society of New York since 1971 and for many years served as Chairman of the Research Grant and Awards Committee.
Dr. Michelis has been the Director of the Division of Nephrology at Lenox Hill Hospital for more than three decades. He is Clinical Professor of Medicine at the New York University School of Medicine, and he is also a Visiting Professor of Medicine at the State University of New York Health Science Center, Brooklyn, New York. Dr. Michelis
received a B.A. at Columbia College, Columbia University in New York City, and his M.D. degree at the George Washington University School of Medicine in Washington,
D.C. He received his nephrology training at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and he then joined the full-time faculty at the University of Pittsburgh, where he held the rank of Assistant Professor of Medicine, and was certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine. Following his move to New York, Dr. Michelis was appointed Director,Division of Nephrology, at Lenox Hill
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