Dr.
Antar graduated from Oberlin College with honors in English and high
honors in anthropology. She was a recipient of the National Endowment
for the Humanities Younger Scholars Award. She went on to study Medicine
at Albert Einstein College of Medicine where she completed both her
M.D. and earned a Ph.D. in neuroscience. She was president of the Albert
Einstein Chapter of the American Medical Women's Association and won
the Julius Marmar Research Award for Excellence in Research. She has won
numerous other awards including those from the National Science
Foundation and the FRAXA Research Foundations that funded her research
and helped her to teach others about her work. She has published
extensively in Journals such as Neuron, The Journal of Neuroscience, Developmental Cell, and Genes, Brain and Behavior,
to name a few. Her research has been cited in Science Magazine's
Editor's Choice. She has published a book chapter. She has been invited
to present her work at the prestigious Gordon Research Conference, and
has given numerous national and international talks on a variety of
neuropsychiatric subjects to researchers and physicians as well as
patients and their families. Dr. Antar volunteers some of her time
teaching resident physicians at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine,
and has given talks to social workers in the community as well as to
elementary and high school students. Dr. Antar currently conducts
research at Montefiore Medical Center of the Albert Einstein College of
Medicine where she is an Assistant Professor in the Department of
Pyschiatry and Behavioral Sciences.
Dr
Antar specializes in state-of-the-art, outpatient treatment of stress,
anxiety and depression in children, adolescents and adults. She also has
extensive experience treating patients with bipolar disorder, mood
disorders, PTSD and ADHD. Most of her patients work, go to school and
are able to live their lives, but have some issues that " get in their
way." Other patients have more significant distress. She is able to
treat each person with what he or she needs, whether it is with
medicine, interpersonal psychotherapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy or
family therapy.
Dr.
Antar combines her understanding of the sciences, social sciences and
humanities to help individuals face their most trying moments
effectively: with grace, dignity and compassion. Dr. Antar feels that it
is an honor and privilege to help her patients, and works to create a
warm environment of mutual respect, exploration, self-discovery and
self-efficacy.