Meet The Fellows
Argyro Athanasiadi, M.D. (Current Fellow)
Fellowship Year: 202 - 2022
Dr. Athanasiadi was born and raised in Greece. She attended Democritus University in Greece where she also completed a Master’s Degree in Social Psychiatry. She completed residency training at New York Medical College/Westchester Medical Center and also served as the chief resident. During residency, she attended several courses on psychoanalytic psychotherapy and has recently been accepted in the American Psychoanalytic Association Fellowship Program. Some of her clinical interests include GI comorbidities in people with mental illness, women’s health, personality disorders, psychodynamic psychotherapy.
Dr. Athanasiadi believes that patients should be evaluated holistically, integrating the biopsychosocial model in diagnosis and treatment. CL psychiatry represents that philosophy. She enjoys working collaboratively as part of a larger team and finds that to be a very rewarding experience. Offering support, comfort, and even helping patients to find meaning in their suffering is something she would like to focus on during her fellowship year.
Nithya Cherukuru, M.D. (Current Fellow)
Fellowship Year: 2021 - 2022
Dr. Cherukuru completed medical school at the American University of the Caribbean in St. Maarten and her psychiatry residency at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, VA. During residency, Dr. Cherukuru took special interest in education and quality improvement, and completed a leadership in hospital governance fellowship during her last year of training.
Dr. Cherukuru decided to do CL fellowship to expand on her experiences in residency and gain more insight into the subspecialty and practice of CL psychiatry. She is grateful to be working with attendings who take a special interest in her education. She plans to work on gaining more confidence with, and experiences in, treating complex cases in a variety of medical settings.
Jerry Sayers, M.D.
Fellowship Year: 2020 - 2021
Dr. Sayers completed Internal Medicine internship in Youngstown, Ohio prior to residency in General Psychiatry at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. His previous fellowship training is in Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Neurology at Johns Hopkins Bayview. Since completing residency, he has for the last 3 years been working in outpatient general psychiatry and neuropsychiatry.
On why he chose CL Fellowship, Jerry says, “I realized I needed more training in consultation in order to help patients and understand the complexity of their individual cases. I did not have enough experience in complicated inpatient consult work and I wanted to strengthen that. After a lot of experience in clinical work as an attending, I realized the type of challenge I want on a day to day basis and CL is just that type of challenge for me.”
Samantha Latorre, M.D.
Fellowship Year: 2018 - 2019
Dr. Latorre completed her undergraduate degree from the University of Dayton in pre-medicine and psychology. She graduated from Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine in 2014 and completed Adult Psychiatry residency at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center (Case Western) in 2018. While in Cleveland, Dr. Latorre completed fellowships in Public and Community Psychiatry and Women’s Mental Health. She then completed Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry fellowship at the University of Maryland. Currently, she is an assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in the Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry division. She is board certified in Psychiatry and Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry.
Dr. Latorre’s clinical and research focus is in reproductive psychiatry and collaborative care. She is active in teaching medical students as well as psychiatry and non-psychiatry trainees. She is currently the Associate Program Director of the Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship at the University of Maryland.
Her latest publications include a case review for Psychosomatics on "Anti-NMDAR Encephalitis: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Identification of the Disorder and Management of Psychiatric Symptoms," and a commentary in Ob.Gyn.News entitled “Depression after miscarriage.”
Karanjit Parihar, M.D.
Fellowship Year: 2017 - 2018
Dr. Parihar was born and raised in Punjab, India. He graduated from SUNY Buffalo with a Bachelors of Sciences in Biomedical Sciences. In 2012 he graduated from American University of Antigua. He completed his residency in Pyschiatry at Creedmoor Psychiatric Center in Queens, New York before entering fellowship in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry at the Univeristy of Maryland. Karanjit's interest in consult psychiatry began his first year of residency during internal medicine. Since graduation from fellowship in 2018, he works at Midhudson Regional Hospital/Westchester Medical Center as a CL attending.
"What I enjoyed most about my fellowship year was the wide array of pathology and working with the patients from the metropolitan Baltimore/Washington area. Those aspects made the learning experience enriching and challenging at the same time. I also valued the strong teaching and the nurturing education provided by the faculty. They made me the confident psychiatrist I am today."
Elizabeth Prince, D.O.
Fellowship Year: 2017 - 2018
Dr. Prince graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park with a Bachelor of Music and worked as a musician before starting medical school at Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine in New York City. She completed her General Psychiatry residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore and Consultation Liaison Psychiatry fellowship at the University of Maryland Medical Center, also in Baltimore. Following fellowship she joined the faculty at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and works in the division of General Hospital Psychiatry.
Prince EJ, Piddoubny W, Caro MA, Gerstenblith TA, Bienvenu OJ. Psychiatric aspects of non-cardiac thoracic surgery. In Zimbrean PJ, Oldham MA, Lee HB. Perioperative Psychiatry: A Guide to Behavioral Healthcare for the Surgical Patient. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland AG. 2019, 131-143.
Prince EJ, Gerstenblith TA, Davydow D, Bienvenu OJ. Psychiatric Morbidity after Critical Illness. Critical Care Clinics, October 2018;34(4): 599-608
Danielle Hairston, M.D.
Fellowship Year: 2016 - 2017
Hairston, Danielle R., et al. "Treatment of phantom shocks: A case report." The International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine (2018): 0091217418802153.
de Similien, R., Hairston, D. R., Kumari, S., Matthews, G. E., Wasser, T., Malik, M., & Manalai, P. (2018). Sociodemographic and clinical correlates of the frequently hospitalized African American patients with severe and persistent mental illness. Annals of clinical psychiatry: official journal of the American Academy of Clinical Psychiatrists, 30(4), 305-310.
Hairston, Danielle R., et al. "Clinician Bias in Diagnosis and Treatment." Racism and Psychiatry. Humana Press, Cham, 2019. 105-137.
Gordon-Achebe, Kimberly, et al. "Origins of Racism in American Medicine and Psychiatry." Racism and Psychiatry. Humana Press, Cham, 2019. 3-19.
Pinar Miski, M.D.
Fellowship Year: 2010 - 2011
Dr. Miski completed Medical School at Temple University School of Medicine and completed her Residency at The University of Maryland in Baltimore, MD. Post-Fellowship, Dr. Miski became a fulltime CL psychiatrist at St. Agnes Hospital in Baltimore, MD from 2011 - 2014. In 2014 she became the Director of Psychiatry at St. Agnes Hospital in Baltimore, MD. She serves on a variety of committees at St. Agnes and routinely teaches medical interns both on the service and during didactics.