Anthony Charuvastra, M.D. is an adjunct assistant professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Dr. Charuvastra teaches as part of the CSC's Child and Adolescent Mental Health Studies (CAMS) Minor. Dr. Charuvastra graduated from the CSC residency program where he served as chief resident. During his time at the NYU CSC, he worked closely with Marylene Cloitre, Ph.D., founding director of the Trauma and Resilience Research Program, to develop his interests in bioethics and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in children. Together, they published three peer-reviewed papers on the emerging neuroscience of how social ties are maintained in the brain. Dr. Charuvastra WAS also been mentored by Regina Sullivan, M.D., professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the NYU Langone Medical Center and senior research scientist at the Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research.

Dr. Charuvastra received his B.A. and M.D. at Brown University. While in medical school, Dr. Charuvastra took a leave of absence to conduct research in addiction and HIV in the Division of General Internal Medicine at Rhode Island Hospital. After medical school, Dr. Charuvastra completed general psychiatry training at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute. Dr. Charuvastra has published 22 peer-reviewed papers to date, primarily in the areas of addiction and bioethics.

In the News

Effects on Child of Being Sole Plane Crash Survivor

Anthony Charuvastra, M.D., appeared on ABC's Good Morning America to discuss the possible psychological effects on the 10-year-old Dutch boy who was the sole survival of the plane crash in Libya.  Dr. Charuvastra explained that this is "the same type of post traumatic stress disorder that can affect combat veterans experienced in the war zone."