Long Island Neurocare

Richard Jay Pitch, MD is Board Certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. He graduated with honors from Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT in 1985 and State University of New York Health Science Center at Brooklyn (Downstate Medical Center) in 1991. He completed his psychiatry residency at Hillside Hospital-Long Island Jewish Medical Center, where he also served as Chief Resident in 1995. He was awarded Exemplary Psychiatrist by the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill. He was also certified, with distinction, as a Master Psychopharmacologist by the Neuroscience Education Institute in 2009. He completed the mini-Fellowship in Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation from Harvard Medical School, in 2010, at the Berenson-Allen Brain Stimulation Center at Beth Israel-Deaconess Center in Boston.