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Beth Israel’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences has made the following promotions and appointments to its faculty:

* David Roane, MD, has been promoted to Associate Chairman for Education. Dr. Roane has been the Department’s Director of Residency Training for the past year and a half. He received his medical degree from Stony Brook Medical School and completed a psychiatry residency at New York University Medical Center, where he was Chief Resident. He also completed a fellowship in neurobehavior at Beth Israel.

* David Klahr, MD, has been promoted to Unit Chief of 4 Bernstein. Dr. Klahr graduated from Albany Medical College, and completed his psychiatry residency at St. Luke’s and Roosevelt Hospitals, where he was Chief Resident. He has completed fellowships in schizophrenia research at Columbia University and geriatric psychiatry at New York Hospital, Cornell Medical Center.

* Michael Adams, MD, has been appointed as an inpatient psychiatrist on 4 Bernstein, effective April 1. Dr. Adams was previously Medical Director of the Adult Psychiatric Outpatient Department at Cabrini Medical Center. He received his medical degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine and did psychiatric residencies there and at North Central Bronx Hospital.

* Natalya Ogievetsky, MD, has been appointed staff psychiatrist for the Family Center for Bipolar Disorder. Dr. Ogievetsky was previously an attending psychiatrist at the Maimonides Adult Outpatient Center. She went to medical school at the Sechenov Moscow Medical Academy and the Volgograd State Medical Institute. She was a resident in psychiatry at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn and a fellow in consultation/liaison psychiatry at Long Island Jewish Medical Center.