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Seth Flesher, MD
Staff Psychiatrist
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Biography
I am double board-certified in adult psychiatry and addiction medicine. My practice focuses on medication management of psychiatric illness without the use of controlled substances. Typically, I offer this in conjunction with supportive or emotionally focused therapy in 30-minute follow-up visits. However, occasionally I may believe that additional therapy is also needed and ask that you bring a therapist into your care team to provide the best outcome.
I believe that psychiatry should start with a thorough assessment to arrive at an accurate diagnosis, followed by a discussion with the patient of the different evidence-based options available, and then shared decision-making to arrive at an effective treatment plan to achieve the goals that the patient identifies as being important. This should be done in an honest, open, non-judgmental, but realistic environment, with the understanding that the ultimate goal is to get the patient to a position where they will no longer need medication and/or therapy.
Before joining Talkiatry, I was Medical Director of Advanced Psychiatric Services (complex/high profile cases) at Kings County Hospital and Unit Chief of the Covid-19 positive unit. I was also a clinical professor at Downstate Medical College, where I was voted educator of the year numerous times by psychiatric residents and medical students.
I am a graduate of the prestigious combined 6-year BS/MD program at The Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education. I did research at the neuropsychiatric branch of the National Institute of Mental Health, completed my psychiatric residency at St. Lukes/Roosevelt Hospital, and received my master's degree in public health from Columbia University.
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Education and training
- Howard University College of Medicine ( Doctor of Medicine )