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THE TRAINING OFFICE
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Cynthia Telingator, MD
Assistant Professor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Training Director, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
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Cynthia Telingator, MD, completed her training in Adult Psychiatry,
as well as Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, at The Cambridge Hospital
(now Cambridge Health Alliance). While she was in training, she
became involved with treating a child whose parents were affected
by HIV. She began working more intensively with this patient population
over the next ten years. She started a clinic for children infected
with HIV within The Cambridge Hospital's Zinberg (HIV) Clinic, and
has spoken and written about her clinical experiences working with
these children and families.
In 1997, she began as Director of Outpatient Services and moved
into the position of Director of Child and Adolescent Training in
2000. Current academic interests include issues of gender and sexuality,
alternative contemporary families, preventive community care, trauma,
and psychiatric training and education.
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Sandra DeJong, MD
Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Associate Training Director, Division of Child and Adolescent
Psychiatry
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Dr. DeJong trained in pediatrics and General Psychiatry at the
University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester, MA, and
in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Massachusetts General and
McLean Hospitals. She has worked in an outpatient community hospital
setting providing consultations and medication management to patients
referred from pediatricians, as well as inpatient child psychiatry
consultation and private practice. In addition, she served as co-Investigator
with Dr. Jean Frazier on an NIMH-funded multi-site research project
in the treatment of early-onset psychosis, and has written about
the use of antipsychotic medications in children.
In the fall of 2004, Dr. DeJong assumed the position of Associate
Training Director in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
Current academic interests include the etiology, diagnosis and treatment
of neurodevelopmental disorders, and psychiatric education.
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Wendy Geist, MEd
Training Coordinator
Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
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Wendy Geist graduated from the University of Massachusetts with
her Masters in Education in 2004. Prior to joining the CHA, Wendy
worked as a Mental Health Counselor at Walden Behavioral Care and
as a Faculty Assistant at Harvard University's Graduate School of
Education. She joined the Child & Adolescent Training Program
in the spring of 2006.
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