Professional Bio
Dr Privitera is Associate Professor of Psychiatry at University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC), and Directs the Psychiatric Consultation/Liaison Service which services the Medical/Surgical/OB-GYN Service patients, the Mood and Anxiety Disorder Clinic, which services the medical community and region with consultation on difficult to treat mood and anxiety disorders. Dr Privitera has through years of clinical and administrative experience, personal victimization, co-chairing the Department of Psychiatry Workplace Violence (WPV) Committee, membership on URMC Workplace Safety Committee, completing a sabbatical focusing on WPV, assembled national and international interdisciplinary and interprofessional experts in the WPV field which culminated in editing and writing for the book Workplace Violence in Mental and General Healthcare Settings (Jones and Bartlett Publishers 2011).
He has presented internationally on interdisciplinary and interprofessional approaches to prevention and dealing urgently with WPV issues directly before, during, and directly after violent or potentially violent events ("Perivention").
| Manfred Guttmacher Award 2012 | American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law/APA | Philadelphia PA, 5/6/12 |
2012 - 2012 |
| Irma Bland MD Award for Excellence in Teaching Residents |
2009 |
| Friend of Residents Award – (URMC Psychiatry Resident Class) |
2009 |
| Best Doctors in America |
2007 - 2009 |
| Top Psychiatrists in America |
2006 |
| Best Doctors in America |
2005 |
| URMC, Dept of Psychiatry Excellence in Clinical Care Award |
2005 |
| Sidney Rubin, MD Award for Excellence in Psychiatric Residency |
2004 |
| Sidney Rubin, MD Award for Excellence in Psychiatric Residency |
2001 |
| Mary Lou Meyers, MD Award for Excellence in Medical Student |
1999 |
| Best Doctors In America |
1998 |
| Nancy C.A. Roeske, MD Award for Excellence in Medical Student |
1997 |
| Fellow (now called |
1995 |
| Sidney Rubin, MD Award for Excellence in Psychiatric Residency |
1986 |
| Sandoz Award in Psychopharmacology |
1983 |
| Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society | (SUNY @ Buffalo, of Medicine) |
1979 |
