Nadia Z Hidayatallah | Mount Sinai

About Me

Dr. Nadia Hidayatallah is an Assistant Professor at the Icahn School of Medicine and the senior supervising psychologist in the outpatient department of the Child & Family Institute, Mount Sinai St. Luke's. Dr. Hidayatallah provides individual, group, and family therapy to patients; coordinates the externship program in the outpatient department; and teaches and supervises psychology and psychiatry trainees on topics including play therapy and transference/countertransference. Dr. Hidayatallah also sees private adolescent and adult patients through the faculty private practice. Dr. Hidayatallah specializes in child and adolescent psychology and insight-oriented psychodynamic psychotherapy with patients of all ages. Dr. Hidayatallah graduated from Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, Yeshiva University in 2013 with her PsyD in Clinical-School Psychology. She completed her APA-accredited internship and also a postdoctoral fellowship at the Child & Family Institute at Mount Sinai St. Luke's.

Language

English

Position

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR | Psychiatry, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Clinical Focus

Adjustment Disorder
Anxiety
Borderline Personality Disorder
Conduct Disorder
Depression
Dysthymia
Family Therapy/ Marriage Therapy
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Services
Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Education

BA, Duke University

PsyD, Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, Yeshiva University

Research

From January 2010 through August 2011, Dr. Hidayatallah worked with an interdisciplinary team to conduct NIH-funded research on the ethical and psychosocial implications of genetic testing in the context of cardiogenetic conditions. The qualitative research team interviewed 50 participants who had either experienced a cardiac event themselves or had a family member who had experienced or died from a cardiac event. Through semi-structured interviews and coding of data using a grounded-theory approach, the team learned about bereavement in the case of a sudden and unexplained death, attitudes toward genetic testing and sharing genetic information with family members, effects of receiving genetic testing results, interactions with healthcare providers and medical examiners, issues of health literacy, and the importance of including psychologists on interdisciplinary medical teams. The research team hopes that their multiple publications will be used to standardize the difficult processes associated with genetic testing (ie, introducing the possibility of testing, providing test results) and make the experiences less anxiety-provoking for families. Another aim has been to provide accurate and accessible information about cardiac channelopathies for both patient and medical communities.