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| Tal Herbsman, M.D. - Fourth Year Resident (2007-2009)
herbsma@musc.edu Dr. Herbsman is a PGY-4 resident in the general psychiatry program at MUSC. His MD is from the University of Florida. He also earned a BSE from Princeton University and a MSE from the University of Michigan, both in electrical engineering. His research interest is in the neural substrates of affective disorders--bipolar disorder in particular. Under the guidance of Dr. Nahas of the Brain Stimulation Laboratory at MUSC, Dr. Herbsman is involved in several projects with the common theme of trying to establish a rational approach to somatic therapy for mood disorders. In doing this he is learning to use several different techniques including diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), functional MRI and transcranial magnetic stimulation. Dr. Herbsman is mentored in the DART program by Dr. Ziad Nahas. |
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| Rebecca Payne, M.D. - Fourth Year Resident (2007-2009)
paynere@musc.edu Rebecca A. Payne is a fourth year psychiatry resident in the General Psychiatry Residency Training Program at the Medical University of South Carolina. She received a Bachelor of Science in Biology and a Doctor of Medicine from the University of South Carolina. Her research interests include the role of gender differences and hormones in substance disorders, the interplay of chronic pain disorders with comorbid psychiatric illness, and the misuse of prescription opiates. Clinically, she is interested in patients with severe and persistent mental illness, particularly schizophrenia, and comorbid substance disorders. Her career goals include completing a fellowship in addictions and incorporating a career in research with clinical practice. She is currently conducting a study examining gender differences and the prevalence and correlates of prescription opioid use among inpatients admitted to a short-term primarily alcohol and drug detoxification unit. Dr. Payne is co-mentored in the DART program byDr. Sudie Back and Dr. Kathleen Brady. | | | | | | | | | | |  | Andrew Clark, M.D. - Fourth Year Resident (2007-2009)
clarkand@musc.edu Dr. Clark is a fourth year resident in the general psychiatry program at MUSC. He has initiated an integrated child and adolescent research tract, having already started his C&A fellowship at MUSC. He has a BS in Biology from Wilkes University and earned his MD from Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Clark is working with his mentor Dr. Deborah Deas on several projects related to substance abuse and risk taking behaviors in adolescents. His interests include objective measures of impulsivity, developmental neuroscience, and treatment approaches to patients with comorbid disorders susceptible to substance abuse and behavioral addictions. Dr. Clark is mentored in the DART program by Dr. Deborah Deas. | | | | | | 
| Kelly Holes-Lewis, M.D. - Fourth Year Resident Kelly Holes-Lewis, M.D. is a fourth year psychiatry resident in the General Psychiatry Residency Training Program at the Medical University of South Carolina. She received a Bachelor’s of Science Degree in Biology from Niagara University and a Doctor of Medicine Degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo. She completed a residency in Nuclear Medicine and a fellowship in Positron Emission Tomography and CT Imaging before beginning her psychiatry residency. Her research interests include the use of molecular imaging in the investigation of psychiatric illness, specifically with a focus on the inter-relationship between functional gastrointestinal disorders and anxiety and depression. Clinically, she is also interested in the psychiatric care of oncology patients. Dr. Holes-Lewis is mentored in the DART program by Dr. Thomas Uhde. | | | | | | 
| A. Lee Lewis, M.D. - Third Year Resident (2008-2010) A. Lee Lewis is a 3rd year resident in the general psychiatry program at the Medical University of SC. He received his BS in psychology with an emphasis in premedical studies from Wofford College in 2000 and his MD form the Medical University of SC in 2006. His research interests include prevention of the progression of abuse to addiction in adolescents by both medicinal and psychotherapeutic techniques, possible techniques to intervene in the early development of character pathology, and investigating the use of dramatic arts to teach societal archetypes to socially and behaviorally maladapted children and adolescents. His future career plans include becoming board certified in general, child and adolescent, and addiction psychiatry in an effort to move toward the development of a partial hospitalization/residential treatment program as a clinical and research center for the treatment of adolescents with comorbid substance abuse disorders and mood/anxiety/personality disorders. When not in clinical or research duties Dr. Lewis can be found performing and teaching improvisational theater with Theatre 99. Dr. Lewis is mentored in the DART program by Dr. Kevin Gray. | | | | | | | 
| Andrei Vedeniapin, M.D. - Fourth Year Resident Dr. Vedeniapin is a 4th year resident in psychiatry. His research interest include: sleep-wakefulness pattern and psychopathology, sleep as universal phenomenon, the effects of anesthesia on sleep and subjective sleep misperception, psychophysiological endophenotypes of psychiatric syndromes, and the influence of personality on psychopathology. Dr. Vendeniapin is mentored in the DART program by Dr. Thomas Uhde. | | | | | | Resident Research Graduates - Congratulations! | 
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| Kelly Barth, D.O.
(2006 - 2007) | Richard Holt, M.D.
(2005-2007) | Bryan Tolliver, M.D.
(2005-2007) | | | | | | 
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(2006-2008) | |
| Contact us: Crissy Rowell, Resident Research Training Administration 843-792-0291 | | | | |
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