Veronica M. Rojas

Veronica M. Rojas, M.D is a Double Board Certified of the American Board of Neurology and Psychiatry in General and Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. She holds a Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at New York University as a voluntary faculty. Dr Rojas’s area of psychiatric expertise is diverse. She works with all the developmental stages in life starting with children & adolescents, college women transitioning into young professional women, motherhood and families. Over the last ten years, she has added the expertise of substance use with adolescents and young adults by studying Addiction Medicine.

Dr. Rojas has trained in psychodynamic psychotherapy and dialectic behavioral therapy. addiction medicine and has become certified in SMART (Stress Management and Resiliency Training) at the Benson Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. She has also trained for Mindful Based Stress Reduction at the University of Massachusetts. During the pandemic, Dr. Rojas added a full training in Functional Medicine. Dr. Rojas applies all these techniques plus her great belief in exercise, vitamins, meditation and psychotropic medication when needed. Dr. Rojas did her General Psychiatric Residency at New York Presbyterian (Cornell) and did her Child & Adolescent Psychiatric Fellowship at New York University –Child Study Center.

Following her fellowship, she became the Director of the first ACS (Administration for Children and Families) – Bellevue Mental Health Program for five years. After running this program, she had the privilege of becoming the first female to be an Associate Medical Director of the Department of Psychiatry at Bellevue Hospital. In addition, she was the psychiatrist at Edwin Gould for Children & Families foster care agency for more than ten years, providing services to women in great need.

Dr Rojas has a full private practice in which she includes all her training to help the patient and their families. She works collaboratelly with therapists, coaches, residential facilities, intensive outpatients treatments, interventionists and a whole array of professionals.

Dr. Rojas has published in several magazines, has appeared on television and has published articles and book chapters related to women and their families, college young professional women, trauma and migration. She practices psychiatry in NYC and Ridgewood, NJ, where she lives with her husband and two daughters.

DEGREE

MD

TITLE

Private Psychiatry Practice

CLINICAL APPOINTMENTS/HOSPITAL AFFILIATION

Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at New York University (voluntary faculty),

DESCRIPTION OF PRACTICE/SERVICES OFFERED

Psychiatric Evaluation and Consultation

Psychotherapy

Psychopharmacology

AREAS OF RESEARCH

Substance Use in adolescents.

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Addiction Medicine. Functional Medicine

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION

PSYCHIATRIC TRAINING

1999-2001 Child & Adolescent Fellowship, New York University-Child Study Center

1996-1999 General Psychiatry Residency, New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center

MEDICAL SCHOOL

1984-1989 University of Buenos Aires, School of Medicine

CREDENTIAL/BOARD CERTIFICATION

Psychiatry, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology

Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology

HONORS/AWARDS

2000 Wyeth-Ayers/AADPRT IMG Mentorship Program

2002 American Psychiatric Institute for Research and Education/Janssen

Pharmaceutica Public Policy Leadership Program.

PUBLICATIONS

1. Rojas V. M.: Migration and women. Mental Health News. Fall 2006.

2. Rojas V.M., Alonso C., Silva R.: Review of Benzodiazepine Use in Children and

Adolescents. Psychiatric Quarterly vol. 76, number 3, 2005.

3. Rojas V.M., Silva R., Citalopram Treatment in a Depressed Adolescent. Journal of

Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology Vol 11, Number 3, 2001.

4. Rojas V. M, Davies R. K, Reserpine treatment of Comorbid Tourette’s Disorder and

Tardive Dystonia. The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 1999; 60,10.

5. Silva RR, Rojas V.M,: Suicide and bipolar disorder in children and adolescents. -

Bipolar Disorder Volume 5 of the WPA Series “Evidence and Experience in

Psychiatry” (ed: M. Maj M. Akiskal HS, Lopez-Ibor JJ, Sartorius N), Wiley

Publishers, 424-426 Cichester.

6. Rojas V.M., Lee Tal N.,: PTSD, Childhood vs. Adults PTSD. Posttraumatic Stress

Disorders in children and adolescents, (Handbook). Norton Publications, 237-

257.

7. Rojas V.M., Pappagallo M.: Risk Factors for PTSD in Children and Adolescents.

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Children & Adolescents (Handbook) Norton

Publications, 38-60.

8. Pappagallo M., Silva R.R., Rojas V. M., Differential Diagnosis of PTSD in Children

and Adolescents. Norton Publications, 218-237.

9. Rojas V. M., Article about sexual abuse. In Town Magazine, June/July 2006.

10. Rojas V. M. ADHD in Children and Adolescents. 2006.

11. Rojas V.M, Article about parents relationships in Parents Magazine 2007, 2008.
12. Raul Silva, M.D., Veronica Rojas, M.D., Dinohra Munoz Silva, M.D., Gary Gosselin,

M.D., Richard Perry, M.D., Hector Varas, M.D. and Glenn Hirsch, M.D. “Evidence

based administrative initiative in Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Inpatients”

American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 47th Annual Meeting,

October 24-29, 2000.

13. Kairam R, Kugler S, Nagel N, Rojas V, Barnett M and Levenson R. Spectrum of

Neurological Dysfunction in Pediatric HIV Infection. Child Neurology Society,

1991.

14. Kairam R, Zavadski R, Rojas V, Kugler S, Mellins C and Levenson R. Range of

Neurological and Psychological Dysfunction in Pediatric HIV Infection. Neuro-

Science, Italy, 1991.

CONTACT

1115 Broadway, Suite 1203 71 Franklin Turnpike, Suite 7

New York, NY 10010 Waldwick, NJ 07463

Telephone: 917.576.0561

Fax: 201.444.8338

Email; VMRB@veronicamrojasmd.com

Appointment Scheduling: Call (917) 576-0561

Office Hours: Monday-Thursday 9 AM to 7 PM

Insurances Accepted/Managed Care Accepted: None