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The Division of Student Affairs advocates for student success and empowers students to grow as professionals, as well as individuals, by providing a wide range of support services. We work with students across all five schools and colleges to explore ways to enhance the entire student experience and to develop solutions to issues and concerns, both individual and collective.
Profile
Orlando Sola, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Dr. Sola joined the SUNY Downstate community in 2017 where he works as Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine. Dr. Sola comes from a diverse background of Puerto Rican and Filipino descent. He has enjoyed working with diverse communities in both English and Spanish throughout New York. Prior to medical school, he worked as a home attendant for individuals with developmental needs. He completed his medical education at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in Washington Heights, and obtained his Master's of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University where he pursued his interest in Health Policy as a policy intern in Washington, D.C. Dr. Sola completed his residency training in Family Medicine at the Institute for Family Health, at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York.
Dr. Sola's medical interests range from pediatric to adult care. He enjoys working with adolescent and young adult communities, and specializes in procedural care of issues in Women's Health, Dermatology and Musculoskeletal disease. In his procedure clinic, he provides full spectrum contraceptive management, including IUD and implants, as well as joint injections, skin assessments and skin biopsies.
Dr. Sola is the Associate Director of the Primary Care 1 rotation, at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in the College of Medicine where he runs the didactic curriculum for third year medical students. Dr. Sola enjoys participating in community outreach events at health fairs and local schools while continuing to stay active with local advocacy organizations.
Dr. Sola looks forward to growing with the diverse community of Central Brooklyn as a primary care provider, teacher and community advocate.
Residency/Fellow Wellness
Meet Our Team
Rhonda Osborne, MD
Co-Chair, SUNY Downstate GME Resident/Fellow Wellness Subcommittee
Dr. Rhonda Osborne graduated from SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University College of Medicine. Her radiology residency was completed at Harlem Hospital Center and Fellowship in Cross-Sectional Imaging at Jacobi Hospital Center. After fellowship, she joined the faculty of the Long Island College Hospital where she was the Ultrasound Division section Chief for thirteen years, and associate program director for eight years.
In 2015, Dr. Osborne returned to SUNY Downstate as faculty in the Department of Radiology, and as the Program Director of the Diagnostic Radiology Residency Program. She is also an adjunct professor in the School of Health Professions - Diagnostic Medical Imaging Sonography Program. She is a member of the GME Oversight Committee, Co-Chair of the GME Resident/Fellow Wellness Committee and was awarded the 2019 SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University GME Award for Developing a Resident/Fellow Wellness Committee.
Stranger things season 2 kickasstorrents. If Will hadn’t had a now memory and alerted Joyce to Hopper’s whereabouts, he’d be dead. Hopper’s big boy journey into the vines isn’t going well — I know he’s a big, perfect barrel of a man, but he shouldn’t be doing things alone at this point.
Christina Guillen, MD
Co-Chair, SUNY Downstate GME Resident/Fellow Wellness Subcommittee
Dr. Christina Guillen serves as the Program Director of the Pediatric Residency Program at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University and is the Co-Chair of the GME Wellness Committee. She graduated from SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University College of Medicine and completed her residency and subsequently her chief residency in Pediatrics at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University. She then joined the faculty in the Department of Pediatrics at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University where she also practices as a general pediatrician.
Dr. Guillen has served as the Child Abuse specialist at SUNY Downstate University Hospital Brooklyn, conducts the New York State Mandated Reporter Certification Course and has published journal articles on child physical and sexual abuse.
Dr. Guillen is the Director of Community Pediatrics and responsible for the Community Advocacy elective for residents and medical students. She works closely with the Office of Diversity, Education and Research and the Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health. She oversees the community outreach projects within the department of Pediatrics and collaborates with various community based organizations in New York City.
Dr. Guillen is involved with the College of Medicine at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University where she serves as a faculty mentor in the Career and Residency Exploration Program and faculty advisor to medical students interested in Pediatrics. She is also a member of the Student Appeals Committee.
In the Department of Pediatrics, Dr. Guillen has developed a robust resident health and wellness initiative.
Alla Akivis, MD
Faculty Member
Dr. Akivis joined the Department of Family Medicine in August 2002, after graduating from the SUNY Downstate Family Medicine Residency Training Program. She earned her medical degree from the Second Moscow State Medical School. Dr. Akivis spends the vast majority of her time as both a preceptor and a clinician. As a preceptor, Dr. Akivis supervises residents providing out-patient care. In her extensive clinical practice, Dr. Akivis closely works with medical, midwifery, and nurse practitioner students. In addition to conducting lectures to Family Medicine residents, she lectures midwifery students and OB/GYN residents on primary care topics.
During her career, Dr. Akivis served as a liaison for many extra-departmental rotations, including sport-medicine, orthopedics, and surgery. In 2016, she became chair of PEC (Program Evaluation committee), overseeing the residency’s program performance. Dr. Akivis was appointed Associate Residency Program Director in 2017. She is a Faculty Champion for implementation of the Wellness Curriculum for the FM residency program.As a part of Departmental community outreach program, Dr. Akivis actively works with residents to provide medical education to senior citizens in the Senior Citizen Center.
Magda Alliancin, PhD
Program Coordinator, EAP
Dr. Alliancin serves as the Program Coordinator for the Employee Assistance Program (EAP) at SUNY Downstate Heath Science University. The EAP mission is to provide a comprehensive worksite-based program to assist employees in the prevention, early intervention, and resolution of problems, which may impact on job performance. EAP goals are: to improve the health and well-being of our employees, to reduce the impact of personal and job-related problems on employee productivity, to offer supervisory and administrative staff training and information on assisting employees with problems, to support Downstate policies for maintaining a safe and healthy workplace, to work closely with the EAP Advisory Committee and the New York State Employee Assistance Program to serve our employees.
From 2003 to 2017, Dr. Alliancin worked in the Office of Diversity Education and Research (formerly known as Minority Affairs) as the Program Coordinator for the Early Medical Education (EME) Program. A program designed to increase the academic competitiveness of undergraduate pre-medical students, early in their college career. Dr. Alliancin has assisted in getting underrepresented students from CUNY and SUNY schools into SUNY Downstate College of Medicine.CUNY Medgar Evers College and SUNY Downstate Office of Diversity Education & Research recognized her for her commitment in providing outstanding service to students of diverse populations.
Prior to SUNY Downstate, Dr. Alliancin was the Program Director for NYC Health + Hospital Corporation Ryan White Mental Health Program.As the Program Director, she conducted intakes, developed policies and procedures to ensure program compliance, participated in Quality Improvement Review Committee and Co-chaired the Consumer Advisory Board.
Dr. Alliancin is a current member of Kappa Delta Pi, International Education Honors Society.She has participated in SUNY Downstate Middle States Committee, Chancellors Award for Excellence Professional Service Sub Committee and past election chair for the National Association for Medical Minority Educators (NAMME) Organization. Currently, she Chairs the Domestic Violence Committee, a member of the Resident/Fellow Wellness Committee, a grant reviewer for Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) and serves as a judge for Annual Research Day.
Dr. Alliancin received her undergraduate and graduate education from Long Island University and went on to complete her second Master’s and Doctoral degree from Teachers College Columbia University in Health Education and Behavior Studies.
Scot G. McAfee, MD, FAPA
Physician Coordinator, SETS Clinic
Dr. McAfee graduated magna cum laude from Boston University with a double degree in Biology and Psychology. After two years performing molecular biology research as the Lab Manager at Boston University School of Medicine’s Department of Dermatology, he enrolled at New York Medical College, graduating in 1997. He completed a residency in Adult Psychiatry at St. Vincent’s Hospital in 2001, completing his fourth year while serving as the Executive Chief Resident of the department. He then ran the adolescent and young adult inpatient psychiatric unit at St. Vincent’s Hospital, while maintaining a private practice in psychiatry and psychotherapy in New York City. In March of 2005 he was appointed the Director of Residency Training for the General Residency Training Program at St. Vincent’s Hospital. After the closure of St. Vincent’s, Dr. McAfee worked as the Associate Medical Director of Behavioral Health for F*E*G*S*, where he oversaw the transfer of a large outpatient clinic and instituted clinical standards. In February, 2011 Dr. McAfee was recruited to Maimonides Medical Center to serve as the Vice Chairman of Education and Residency Training Director. He was appointed Interim Chair of Psychiatry in August of 2013, and named permanent Chair in December of 2016. In 2018, he returned to residency training as Vice Chair of Education and Residency training Director at S.U.N.Y. Downstate Heath Science University. Among his many roles at SUNY Downstate, Dr. McAfee serves as the Physician Coordinator of the SUNY Evening Training Service ('S.E.T.S. Clinic') which is a psychiatry resident-run evening clinic focusing on a psychodynamic approach to therapy for appropriate patients, who at times include Downstate students and residents.
Michael Myers, MD, DLFAPA
Consultant
Dr. Myers is Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and immediate past Vice-Chair of Education and Director of Training in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University in Brooklyn, NY. He graduated in medicine from the University of Western Ontario in 1966 and did residencies at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center, Wayne State University (Detroit General Hospital), and the University of British Columbia. He is board certified in Psychiatry by both the Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Canada and the American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology.
Dr. Myers is a specialist in physician health. Until 2008, he served on the Advisory Board of the Center for Physician Health of the Canadian Medical Association and he was the founder and Co-Chair of the Section on Physician Health of the Canadian Psychiatric Association. For many years he served on the Committee on Physician Health, Illness, and Impairment of the American Psychiatric Association and has produced an educational videotape for medical students, physicians, and their families called “Physicians Living With Depression” (American Psychiatric Press Inc., Washington, DC, 1996). His videotape “When Physicians Die By Suicide: Reflections of Those They Leave Behind” won the 1999 APA Psychiatric Services Award. For his advocacy efforts, Dr. Myers received the 2002 CAIR (Canadian Association of Interns and Residents) Resident Well-Being Award. In September 2008, he was awarded a President's Commendation by the Canadian Psychiatric Association for his pioneering work and advocacy in the field of physician mental health. Currently, Dr Myers serves on the Advisory Board to the Committee for Physician Health of the Medical Society of the State of New York. He writes a monthly blog on physician health issues for Psych Congress Network and for Psychology Today.
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The Division of Student Affairs advocates for student success and empowers students to grow as professionals, as well as individuals, by providing a wide range of support services. We work with students across all five schools and colleges to explore ways to enhance the entire student experience and to develop solutions to issues and concerns, both individual and collective.
Profile
Orlando Sola, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Dr. Sola joined the SUNY Downstate community in 2017 where he works as Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine. Dr. Sola comes from a diverse background of Puerto Rican and Filipino descent. He has enjoyed working with diverse communities in both English and Spanish throughout New York. Prior to medical school, he worked as a home attendant for individuals with developmental needs. He completed his medical education at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in Washington Heights, and obtained his Master\'s of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University where he pursued his interest in Health Policy as a policy intern in Washington, D.C. Dr. Sola completed his residency training in Family Medicine at the Institute for Family Health, at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York.
Dr. Sola\'s medical interests range from pediatric to adult care. He enjoys working with adolescent and young adult communities, and specializes in procedural care of issues in Women\'s Health, Dermatology and Musculoskeletal disease. In his procedure clinic, he provides full spectrum contraceptive management, including IUD and implants, as well as joint injections, skin assessments and skin biopsies.
Dr. Sola is the Associate Director of the Primary Care 1 rotation, at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in the College of Medicine where he runs the didactic curriculum for third year medical students. Dr. Sola enjoys participating in community outreach events at health fairs and local schools while continuing to stay active with local advocacy organizations.
Dr. Sola looks forward to growing with the diverse community of Central Brooklyn as a primary care provider, teacher and community advocate.
Residency/Fellow Wellness
Meet Our Team
Rhonda Osborne, MD
Co-Chair, SUNY Downstate GME Resident/Fellow Wellness Subcommittee
Dr. Rhonda Osborne graduated from SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University College of Medicine. Her radiology residency was completed at Harlem Hospital Center and Fellowship in Cross-Sectional Imaging at Jacobi Hospital Center. After fellowship, she joined the faculty of the Long Island College Hospital where she was the Ultrasound Division section Chief for thirteen years, and associate program director for eight years.
In 2015, Dr. Osborne returned to SUNY Downstate as faculty in the Department of Radiology, and as the Program Director of the Diagnostic Radiology Residency Program. She is also an adjunct professor in the School of Health Professions - Diagnostic Medical Imaging Sonography Program. She is a member of the GME Oversight Committee, Co-Chair of the GME Resident/Fellow Wellness Committee and was awarded the 2019 SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University GME Award for Developing a Resident/Fellow Wellness Committee.
Stranger things season 2 kickasstorrents. If Will hadn’t had a now memory and alerted Joyce to Hopper’s whereabouts, he’d be dead. Hopper’s big boy journey into the vines isn’t going well — I know he’s a big, perfect barrel of a man, but he shouldn’t be doing things alone at this point.
Christina Guillen, MD
Co-Chair, SUNY Downstate GME Resident/Fellow Wellness Subcommittee
Dr. Christina Guillen serves as the Program Director of the Pediatric Residency Program at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University and is the Co-Chair of the GME Wellness Committee. She graduated from SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University College of Medicine and completed her residency and subsequently her chief residency in Pediatrics at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University. She then joined the faculty in the Department of Pediatrics at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University where she also practices as a general pediatrician.
Dr. Guillen has served as the Child Abuse specialist at SUNY Downstate University Hospital Brooklyn, conducts the New York State Mandated Reporter Certification Course and has published journal articles on child physical and sexual abuse.
Dr. Guillen is the Director of Community Pediatrics and responsible for the Community Advocacy elective for residents and medical students. She works closely with the Office of Diversity, Education and Research and the Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health. She oversees the community outreach projects within the department of Pediatrics and collaborates with various community based organizations in New York City.
Dr. Guillen is involved with the College of Medicine at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University where she serves as a faculty mentor in the Career and Residency Exploration Program and faculty advisor to medical students interested in Pediatrics. She is also a member of the Student Appeals Committee.
In the Department of Pediatrics, Dr. Guillen has developed a robust resident health and wellness initiative.
Alla Akivis, MD
Faculty Member
Dr. Akivis joined the Department of Family Medicine in August 2002, after graduating from the SUNY Downstate Family Medicine Residency Training Program. She earned her medical degree from the Second Moscow State Medical School. Dr. Akivis spends the vast majority of her time as both a preceptor and a clinician. As a preceptor, Dr. Akivis supervises residents providing out-patient care. In her extensive clinical practice, Dr. Akivis closely works with medical, midwifery, and nurse practitioner students. In addition to conducting lectures to Family Medicine residents, she lectures midwifery students and OB/GYN residents on primary care topics.
During her career, Dr. Akivis served as a liaison for many extra-departmental rotations, including sport-medicine, orthopedics, and surgery. In 2016, she became chair of PEC (Program Evaluation committee), overseeing the residency’s program performance. Dr. Akivis was appointed Associate Residency Program Director in 2017. She is a Faculty Champion for implementation of the Wellness Curriculum for the FM residency program.As a part of Departmental community outreach program, Dr. Akivis actively works with residents to provide medical education to senior citizens in the Senior Citizen Center.
Magda Alliancin, PhD
Program Coordinator, EAP
Dr. Alliancin serves as the Program Coordinator for the Employee Assistance Program (EAP) at SUNY Downstate Heath Science University. The EAP mission is to provide a comprehensive worksite-based program to assist employees in the prevention, early intervention, and resolution of problems, which may impact on job performance. EAP goals are: to improve the health and well-being of our employees, to reduce the impact of personal and job-related problems on employee productivity, to offer supervisory and administrative staff training and information on assisting employees with problems, to support Downstate policies for maintaining a safe and healthy workplace, to work closely with the EAP Advisory Committee and the New York State Employee Assistance Program to serve our employees.
From 2003 to 2017, Dr. Alliancin worked in the Office of Diversity Education and Research (formerly known as Minority Affairs) as the Program Coordinator for the Early Medical Education (EME) Program. A program designed to increase the academic competitiveness of undergraduate pre-medical students, early in their college career. Dr. Alliancin has assisted in getting underrepresented students from CUNY and SUNY schools into SUNY Downstate College of Medicine.CUNY Medgar Evers College and SUNY Downstate Office of Diversity Education & Research recognized her for her commitment in providing outstanding service to students of diverse populations.
Prior to SUNY Downstate, Dr. Alliancin was the Program Director for NYC Health + Hospital Corporation Ryan White Mental Health Program.As the Program Director, she conducted intakes, developed policies and procedures to ensure program compliance, participated in Quality Improvement Review Committee and Co-chaired the Consumer Advisory Board.
Dr. Alliancin is a current member of Kappa Delta Pi, International Education Honors Society.She has participated in SUNY Downstate Middle States Committee, Chancellors Award for Excellence Professional Service Sub Committee and past election chair for the National Association for Medical Minority Educators (NAMME) Organization. Currently, she Chairs the Domestic Violence Committee, a member of the Resident/Fellow Wellness Committee, a grant reviewer for Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) and serves as a judge for Annual Research Day.
Dr. Alliancin received her undergraduate and graduate education from Long Island University and went on to complete her second Master’s and Doctoral degree from Teachers College Columbia University in Health Education and Behavior Studies.
Scot G. McAfee, MD, FAPA
Physician Coordinator, SETS Clinic
Dr. McAfee graduated magna cum laude from Boston University with a double degree in Biology and Psychology. After two years performing molecular biology research as the Lab Manager at Boston University School of Medicine’s Department of Dermatology, he enrolled at New York Medical College, graduating in 1997. He completed a residency in Adult Psychiatry at St. Vincent’s Hospital in 2001, completing his fourth year while serving as the Executive Chief Resident of the department. He then ran the adolescent and young adult inpatient psychiatric unit at St. Vincent’s Hospital, while maintaining a private practice in psychiatry and psychotherapy in New York City. In March of 2005 he was appointed the Director of Residency Training for the General Residency Training Program at St. Vincent’s Hospital. After the closure of St. Vincent’s, Dr. McAfee worked as the Associate Medical Director of Behavioral Health for F*E*G*S*, where he oversaw the transfer of a large outpatient clinic and instituted clinical standards. In February, 2011 Dr. McAfee was recruited to Maimonides Medical Center to serve as the Vice Chairman of Education and Residency Training Director. He was appointed Interim Chair of Psychiatry in August of 2013, and named permanent Chair in December of 2016. In 2018, he returned to residency training as Vice Chair of Education and Residency training Director at S.U.N.Y. Downstate Heath Science University. Among his many roles at SUNY Downstate, Dr. McAfee serves as the Physician Coordinator of the SUNY Evening Training Service (\'S.E.T.S. Clinic\') which is a psychiatry resident-run evening clinic focusing on a psychodynamic approach to therapy for appropriate patients, who at times include Downstate students and residents.
Michael Myers, MD, DLFAPA
Consultant
Dr. Myers is Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and immediate past Vice-Chair of Education and Director of Training in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University in Brooklyn, NY. He graduated in medicine from the University of Western Ontario in 1966 and did residencies at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center, Wayne State University (Detroit General Hospital), and the University of British Columbia. He is board certified in Psychiatry by both the Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Canada and the American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology.
Dr. Myers is a specialist in physician health. Until 2008, he served on the Advisory Board of the Center for Physician Health of the Canadian Medical Association and he was the founder and Co-Chair of the Section on Physician Health of the Canadian Psychiatric Association. For many years he served on the Committee on Physician Health, Illness, and Impairment of the American Psychiatric Association and has produced an educational videotape for medical students, physicians, and their families called “Physicians Living With Depression” (American Psychiatric Press Inc., Washington, DC, 1996). His videotape “When Physicians Die By Suicide: Reflections of Those They Leave Behind” won the 1999 APA Psychiatric Services Award. For his advocacy efforts, Dr. Myers received the 2002 CAIR (Canadian Association of Interns and Residents) Resident Well-Being Award. In September 2008, he was awarded a President\'s Commendation by the Canadian Psychiatric Association for his pioneering work and advocacy in the field of physician mental health. Currently, Dr Myers serves on the Advisory Board to the Committee for Physician Health of the Medical Society of the State of New York. He writes a monthly blog on physician health issues for Psych Congress Network and for Psychology Today.
...'>Eme Program Downstate Hospital(15.04.2020)The Division of Student Affairs advocates for student success and empowers students to grow as professionals, as well as individuals, by providing a wide range of support services. We work with students across all five schools and colleges to explore ways to enhance the entire student experience and to develop solutions to issues and concerns, both individual and collective.
Profile
Orlando Sola, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Dr. Sola joined the SUNY Downstate community in 2017 where he works as Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine. Dr. Sola comes from a diverse background of Puerto Rican and Filipino descent. He has enjoyed working with diverse communities in both English and Spanish throughout New York. Prior to medical school, he worked as a home attendant for individuals with developmental needs. He completed his medical education at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in Washington Heights, and obtained his Master\'s of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University where he pursued his interest in Health Policy as a policy intern in Washington, D.C. Dr. Sola completed his residency training in Family Medicine at the Institute for Family Health, at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York.
Dr. Sola\'s medical interests range from pediatric to adult care. He enjoys working with adolescent and young adult communities, and specializes in procedural care of issues in Women\'s Health, Dermatology and Musculoskeletal disease. In his procedure clinic, he provides full spectrum contraceptive management, including IUD and implants, as well as joint injections, skin assessments and skin biopsies.
Dr. Sola is the Associate Director of the Primary Care 1 rotation, at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in the College of Medicine where he runs the didactic curriculum for third year medical students. Dr. Sola enjoys participating in community outreach events at health fairs and local schools while continuing to stay active with local advocacy organizations.
Dr. Sola looks forward to growing with the diverse community of Central Brooklyn as a primary care provider, teacher and community advocate.
Residency/Fellow Wellness
Meet Our Team
Rhonda Osborne, MD
Co-Chair, SUNY Downstate GME Resident/Fellow Wellness Subcommittee
Dr. Rhonda Osborne graduated from SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University College of Medicine. Her radiology residency was completed at Harlem Hospital Center and Fellowship in Cross-Sectional Imaging at Jacobi Hospital Center. After fellowship, she joined the faculty of the Long Island College Hospital where she was the Ultrasound Division section Chief for thirteen years, and associate program director for eight years.
In 2015, Dr. Osborne returned to SUNY Downstate as faculty in the Department of Radiology, and as the Program Director of the Diagnostic Radiology Residency Program. She is also an adjunct professor in the School of Health Professions - Diagnostic Medical Imaging Sonography Program. She is a member of the GME Oversight Committee, Co-Chair of the GME Resident/Fellow Wellness Committee and was awarded the 2019 SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University GME Award for Developing a Resident/Fellow Wellness Committee.
Stranger things season 2 kickasstorrents. If Will hadn’t had a now memory and alerted Joyce to Hopper’s whereabouts, he’d be dead. Hopper’s big boy journey into the vines isn’t going well — I know he’s a big, perfect barrel of a man, but he shouldn’t be doing things alone at this point.
Christina Guillen, MD
Co-Chair, SUNY Downstate GME Resident/Fellow Wellness Subcommittee
Dr. Christina Guillen serves as the Program Director of the Pediatric Residency Program at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University and is the Co-Chair of the GME Wellness Committee. She graduated from SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University College of Medicine and completed her residency and subsequently her chief residency in Pediatrics at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University. She then joined the faculty in the Department of Pediatrics at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University where she also practices as a general pediatrician.
Dr. Guillen has served as the Child Abuse specialist at SUNY Downstate University Hospital Brooklyn, conducts the New York State Mandated Reporter Certification Course and has published journal articles on child physical and sexual abuse.
Dr. Guillen is the Director of Community Pediatrics and responsible for the Community Advocacy elective for residents and medical students. She works closely with the Office of Diversity, Education and Research and the Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health. She oversees the community outreach projects within the department of Pediatrics and collaborates with various community based organizations in New York City.
Dr. Guillen is involved with the College of Medicine at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University where she serves as a faculty mentor in the Career and Residency Exploration Program and faculty advisor to medical students interested in Pediatrics. She is also a member of the Student Appeals Committee.
In the Department of Pediatrics, Dr. Guillen has developed a robust resident health and wellness initiative.
Alla Akivis, MD
Faculty Member
Dr. Akivis joined the Department of Family Medicine in August 2002, after graduating from the SUNY Downstate Family Medicine Residency Training Program. She earned her medical degree from the Second Moscow State Medical School. Dr. Akivis spends the vast majority of her time as both a preceptor and a clinician. As a preceptor, Dr. Akivis supervises residents providing out-patient care. In her extensive clinical practice, Dr. Akivis closely works with medical, midwifery, and nurse practitioner students. In addition to conducting lectures to Family Medicine residents, she lectures midwifery students and OB/GYN residents on primary care topics.
During her career, Dr. Akivis served as a liaison for many extra-departmental rotations, including sport-medicine, orthopedics, and surgery. In 2016, she became chair of PEC (Program Evaluation committee), overseeing the residency’s program performance. Dr. Akivis was appointed Associate Residency Program Director in 2017. She is a Faculty Champion for implementation of the Wellness Curriculum for the FM residency program.As a part of Departmental community outreach program, Dr. Akivis actively works with residents to provide medical education to senior citizens in the Senior Citizen Center.
Magda Alliancin, PhD
Program Coordinator, EAP
Dr. Alliancin serves as the Program Coordinator for the Employee Assistance Program (EAP) at SUNY Downstate Heath Science University. The EAP mission is to provide a comprehensive worksite-based program to assist employees in the prevention, early intervention, and resolution of problems, which may impact on job performance. EAP goals are: to improve the health and well-being of our employees, to reduce the impact of personal and job-related problems on employee productivity, to offer supervisory and administrative staff training and information on assisting employees with problems, to support Downstate policies for maintaining a safe and healthy workplace, to work closely with the EAP Advisory Committee and the New York State Employee Assistance Program to serve our employees.
From 2003 to 2017, Dr. Alliancin worked in the Office of Diversity Education and Research (formerly known as Minority Affairs) as the Program Coordinator for the Early Medical Education (EME) Program. A program designed to increase the academic competitiveness of undergraduate pre-medical students, early in their college career. Dr. Alliancin has assisted in getting underrepresented students from CUNY and SUNY schools into SUNY Downstate College of Medicine.CUNY Medgar Evers College and SUNY Downstate Office of Diversity Education & Research recognized her for her commitment in providing outstanding service to students of diverse populations.
Prior to SUNY Downstate, Dr. Alliancin was the Program Director for NYC Health + Hospital Corporation Ryan White Mental Health Program.As the Program Director, she conducted intakes, developed policies and procedures to ensure program compliance, participated in Quality Improvement Review Committee and Co-chaired the Consumer Advisory Board.
Dr. Alliancin is a current member of Kappa Delta Pi, International Education Honors Society.She has participated in SUNY Downstate Middle States Committee, Chancellors Award for Excellence Professional Service Sub Committee and past election chair for the National Association for Medical Minority Educators (NAMME) Organization. Currently, she Chairs the Domestic Violence Committee, a member of the Resident/Fellow Wellness Committee, a grant reviewer for Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) and serves as a judge for Annual Research Day.
Dr. Alliancin received her undergraduate and graduate education from Long Island University and went on to complete her second Master’s and Doctoral degree from Teachers College Columbia University in Health Education and Behavior Studies.
Scot G. McAfee, MD, FAPA
Physician Coordinator, SETS Clinic
Dr. McAfee graduated magna cum laude from Boston University with a double degree in Biology and Psychology. After two years performing molecular biology research as the Lab Manager at Boston University School of Medicine’s Department of Dermatology, he enrolled at New York Medical College, graduating in 1997. He completed a residency in Adult Psychiatry at St. Vincent’s Hospital in 2001, completing his fourth year while serving as the Executive Chief Resident of the department. He then ran the adolescent and young adult inpatient psychiatric unit at St. Vincent’s Hospital, while maintaining a private practice in psychiatry and psychotherapy in New York City. In March of 2005 he was appointed the Director of Residency Training for the General Residency Training Program at St. Vincent’s Hospital. After the closure of St. Vincent’s, Dr. McAfee worked as the Associate Medical Director of Behavioral Health for F*E*G*S*, where he oversaw the transfer of a large outpatient clinic and instituted clinical standards. In February, 2011 Dr. McAfee was recruited to Maimonides Medical Center to serve as the Vice Chairman of Education and Residency Training Director. He was appointed Interim Chair of Psychiatry in August of 2013, and named permanent Chair in December of 2016. In 2018, he returned to residency training as Vice Chair of Education and Residency training Director at S.U.N.Y. Downstate Heath Science University. Among his many roles at SUNY Downstate, Dr. McAfee serves as the Physician Coordinator of the SUNY Evening Training Service (\'S.E.T.S. Clinic\') which is a psychiatry resident-run evening clinic focusing on a psychodynamic approach to therapy for appropriate patients, who at times include Downstate students and residents.
Michael Myers, MD, DLFAPA
Consultant
Dr. Myers is Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and immediate past Vice-Chair of Education and Director of Training in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University in Brooklyn, NY. He graduated in medicine from the University of Western Ontario in 1966 and did residencies at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center, Wayne State University (Detroit General Hospital), and the University of British Columbia. He is board certified in Psychiatry by both the Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Canada and the American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology.
Dr. Myers is a specialist in physician health. Until 2008, he served on the Advisory Board of the Center for Physician Health of the Canadian Medical Association and he was the founder and Co-Chair of the Section on Physician Health of the Canadian Psychiatric Association. For many years he served on the Committee on Physician Health, Illness, and Impairment of the American Psychiatric Association and has produced an educational videotape for medical students, physicians, and their families called “Physicians Living With Depression” (American Psychiatric Press Inc., Washington, DC, 1996). His videotape “When Physicians Die By Suicide: Reflections of Those They Leave Behind” won the 1999 APA Psychiatric Services Award. For his advocacy efforts, Dr. Myers received the 2002 CAIR (Canadian Association of Interns and Residents) Resident Well-Being Award. In September 2008, he was awarded a President\'s Commendation by the Canadian Psychiatric Association for his pioneering work and advocacy in the field of physician mental health. Currently, Dr Myers serves on the Advisory Board to the Committee for Physician Health of the Medical Society of the State of New York. He writes a monthly blog on physician health issues for Psych Congress Network and for Psychology Today.
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