Psychiatric Consultation Assocs

Wallace A. Carter, MD, is a distinguished professor of clinical emergency medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College and serves as the Vice Chair of Clinical and Faculty Affairs in the Department of Emergency Medicine. With a robust background in emergency medicine and extensive experience in training future physicians, Dr. Carter is dedicated to enhancing patient care and operational quality within the emergency department. Dr. Carter is board certified in emergency medicine and practices at NewYork-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center and NYP Lower Manhattan Hospital. His commitment to education and mentorship has shaped the careers of over three hundred emergency physicians, many of whom have attained prestigious positions in the field. Generated from the website

Dr. George J. Makari attended Brown University and received his BA in 1982; then received his M.D. from Cornell University Medical College in 1987. He completed his psychiatric residency at the Payne Whitney Clinic, then served as a Reader's Digest Research Fellow in the Weill Medical College Department of Psychiatry. Dr. Makari completed Psychoanalytic training at the Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research at Columbia University in 1997. He is a Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the DeWitt Wallace Institute of Psychiatry: History, Policy, and the Arts and Director of the Long Term Psychotherapy Clinic in the Payne Whitney Clinic.He is the author of Of Fear and Strangers: A History of Xenophobia, winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, as well as the Elisabeth Young-Bruehl Prejudice Award, and a New York Times Editor's Choice. He is also the author of two widely acclaimed histories, Soul Machine: The Invention of the Modern Mind (W.W Norton, 2015) and Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis (HarperCollins, 2008). His books have been translated into eight languages, and his essays have appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Lapham's Quarterly, The Boston Globe, Cabinet, and the Lancet. Dr. Makari is the recipient of numerous honors, including the Benjamin Rush Award from the American Psychiatric Association and the Sigmund Freud Award from the American Society of Psychoanalytic Physicians.

Dr. Stujenske is an Assistant Attending in Psychiatry at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and an Instructor in the Department of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medicine. Dr. Stujenske graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University with a BA in Neurobiology. He completed his MD and PhD at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, where he was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. He completed his residency in Adult Psychiatry at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medicine. Complementing his clinical practice, he also investigates the brain mechanisms underlying the experience of safety, fear, and anxiety.