Nina E. Cerfolio

Nina E. Cerfolio, MD is a Castle Connolly Top Doctor, Assistant Clinical Professor of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and a board-certified psychiatrist and psychoanalyst with a private practice in Manhattan. As Associate Attending in the Department of Psychiatry at Mount Sinai Beth Israel Hospital, she teaches residents psychotherapy and psychiatry.  Nina is passionate about the intersection of psychotherapy and spirituality and is a leading voice in the areas of holistic psychiatry, trauma, nutritional psychiatry, spirituality, and creativity. She has been featured in National Geographic Adventure for winning the Half Marathon on the Great Wall of China, Daily News for her humanitarian work during the Chechen genocide, Yomiuri Shimbun (Japan’s national daily newspaper) for her work as a first responder at Ground Zero, and on several national TV/media outlets. Nina has been published in peer-reviewed journals and has presented her original work on the psychological influences of spirituality and trauma in national and international venues.