Biography
Dr. Altemus completed her psychiatry residency training at Yale University in 1987. She was then a research fellow first at Yale, then at the NIMH Intrumural Program. While at NIMH she received training in neuroendocrinology and directed the inpatient Eating Disorders Unit and the adult Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Unit. Dr. Altemus came to the Weill Medical College Department of Psychiatry in 1996. She is also an adjunct faculty member at Rockefeller University.
