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 NEW
BOOK!
Messages
from Home: The Parent-Child Home Program for Overcoming
Educational Disadvantage, Revised and Updated Edition
by Phyllis Levenstein
and Susan Levenstein
Temple University Press, 2008
"Must
reading for scholars, practitioners, and policymakers"
- Edward Zigler, Ph.D.,
Sterling Professor of Psychology, Emeritus, Yale University
"An important resource
for those interested in child development and education."
- Teachers College Record
Five-minute
video
presentation
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| Services
provided: general internal medicine, primary and preventive
health care for men and women, office gynecology (Pap smears,
infections, contraception, sexual counseling, menopause, etc.),
ECGs, pulmonary function testing, American (New York State)
prescriptions. |
Training:
- Bachelor of Arts in philosophy, Harvard University
- M.D., Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York
- Internship and Residency in Social Internal Medicine, Residency
Program in Social Medicine, Montefiore Hospital, Bronx, New
York
- Laurea in Medicine, La Sapienza University, Rome
- Tirocinio in Gastroenterology, Nuovo Regina Margherita Hospital,
Rome
- Diplomate, American Board of Internal Medicine
- Current New York State medical license (#128023-1)
- Current Italian medical license (iscrizione all'Ordine dei
Medici di Roma e Provincia il 31-12-79, n. 28040) |
| Hospital
affiliations: Salvator Mundi International Hospital,
Rome American Hospital, San Camillo-Forlanini Hospital |
| Languages
spoken fluently: English, Italian, French |
|
Watsu
(body work in water), Licensed Practitioner |
| Scientific
Advisory Board, Parent-Child
Home Program |
| Education/Program
Committees, American
Psychosomatic Society |
| Editorial
Board , Psychosomatic
Medicine |
| Curriculum
Vitae (check your Downloads folder after clicking) |
| Selected
writings: |
Peptic
Ulcer and Stress (Encyclopedia of Health and Behavior)
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Sexual
Issues in the Menopause (Our Bodies Our Selves)
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Peptic
ulcers: Stress does matter after all (Sr. World
Online)
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Peptic
ulcer and its discontents (International J Epidemiology)
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Psychosocial
factors in peptic ulcer and inflammatory bowel disease
(J Consulting and Clinical Psychology)
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Psychologic
predictors of ulcer healing (J Clinical Gastro) |
Stress
and peptic ulcer disease (JAMA)
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Stress
and ulcerative colitis: Convincing the Doubting Thomases
(Amer J Gastroent)
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Stress
and exacerbation in ulcerative colitis (Amer J Gastroent)
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The
very model of a modern etiology: A biopsychosocial view
of peptic ulcer (Psychosomatic Medicine)
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Stress
and peptic ulcer: Life beyond Helicobacter (BMJ)
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Psychological
factors in Organic Gastrointestinal Disease. I. Inflammatory
Bowel Disease (Powerpoint presentation)
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Development
of the Perceived Stress Questionnaire (J Psychosom
Res)
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Psychosocial
Predictors of Hypertension (Arch Int Medicine)
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Is
There Health in Wellness? (J Clinical Gastroenterol)
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First
grade school readiness of former child participants in...the
Parent–Child Home Program (J Applied Developmental
Psychology)
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Long-term
Impact of a Verbal Interaction Program for At-Risk Toddlers
(J Applied Developmental Psychology)
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Email:
(but the best place to send most email communications
is, rather, to info@aventinomedicalgroup.com for screening by
Mariateresa)
Home phone - for
emergencies - 06 4880389
Office hours: Monday through Thursday afternoons,
Wednesday morning and afternoon
