Dr. Ammar Y. Ahmad, MD

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Ammar Y. Ahmad, MD

Specialty:

Psychiatry

Biography:

Ammar Yasser Ahmad, MD, is Attending Psychiatrist at Montefiore. His clinical focus is psychosomatic medicine, with particular interest in heart and lung transplant psychiatry.

In 2007, Dr. Ahmad received his Bachelor of Science in history and biology at the University of Pittsburgh. He then attended St. George’s University, where he received his Doctor of Medicine in 2014. He began his postgraduate training in 2015 with a four-year residency in psychiatry at the Bergen New Bridge Medical Center, becoming Chief Resident in his final year. In 2019, he began a yearlong fellowship in consultation-liaison psychiatry at Montefiore. In 2020, Dr. Ahmad completed the certificate program in bioethics and medical humanities at our Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

Dr. Ahmad’s research focuses on psychosomatic medicine and medical ethics, particularly in the area of organ transplantation selection. His work has been published in a number of abstracts.

In 2020, Dr. Ahmad received the Davidoff Teaching Award. He is board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and a member of the American Psychiatric Association.

Locations:

111 East 210th Street
Bronx, NY 10467-2401
Phone:(866) 633-8255

600 East 233rd Street
Bronx, NY 10466-2604
Phone:(866) 633-8255

1825 Eastchester Road
Bronx, NY 10461-2301
Phone:(866) 633-8255

Medical School:

St. George's University

Residency:

Bergen Regional Medical Ctr

Fellowship:

Montefiore Medical Center

Gender:

Male