Specialty Areas: Eating Disorders and Overweight, Psychopharmacology, ADHD, Diagnostic Evaluations

Dr. Kotler is currently the Medical Director of the NYU Child Study Center, New Jersey site in Hackensack, NJ and a Clinical Assistant Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the NYU School of Medicine.

Dr. Kotler has been involved in multiple government and industry studies in the areas of ADHD, mood and anxiety disorders, and eating disorders. She also has a long history of teaching various topics in child and adolescent psychiatry to medical students and residents. She is the author of a number of journal articles and review chapters on these areas. She recently contributed the chapter “Pharmacological Therapies for Bulimia Nervosa” in the book Evidence Based Treatments for Eating Disorders: Children, Adolescents, and Adults published by Nova Science Publishers.

Dr. Kotler received her medical degree from the Yale University School of Medicine. She completed her adult psychiatry training at the Mount Sinai Medical Center and her child and adolescent psychiatry training at New York Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center. She went on to do a research fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry, specializing in eating disorders at Columbia University/New York State Psychiatric Institute.

Dr. Kotler served as a research child psychiatrist at the Child Clinical Intervention Research Center at the New York State Psychiatric Institute/Columbia University, where she participated in numerous clinical trials in the areas of ADHD, mood and anxiety disorders, and eating disorders. In addition, she served as the Medical Director of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Evaluation Service (CAPES).

Dr. Kotler is a member of the American Psychiatric Association and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.