Michael Rosenthal

Michael Rosenthal, MD

Areas of Expertise

Conditions I Treat

  • Anxiety
  • Depression
  • Coping with cancer

My Specialties

  • Psychiatry and psychiatric care
  • Psychopharmacologic treatment
  • Consultation-liaison psychiatry
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Get to Know Me

I am a board-certified psychiatrist with an additional board certification in consultation-liaison psychiatry, a subspecialty that focuses on the care of patients with both psychiatric and general medical conditions. At Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, I serve as the psychiatric liaison to the Thoracic Disease Management Team. In this role, I help people manage symptoms such as anxiety, depression, fatigue, cognitive changes, and sleep disturbances while considering the psychological impacts of their personal situations, cancer treatments, and other medications. I am also interested in mindfulness, meditation, and the role of diet, exercise, and nutrition in treating psychiatric illness in patients with cancer.

My clinical work, teaching, and research interests reflect my longstanding commitment to meeting the psychiatric needs of patients with cancer, with the goal of reducing distress and improving quality of life. In addition to these professional efforts, I am dedicated to teaching fellows, residents, and medical students, as well as supervising advanced practice practitioners.

What I Do at MSK

I'm a psychiatrist (sy-KY-uh-trist), which is a doctor with special training in mental, emotional, and behavioral health. I can prescribe medicine to help with these issues.

  • Assistant Attending Psychiatrist
  • Director of Clinical Operations, Regional Network Sites
Areas of Expertise

Conditions I Treat

  • Anxiety
  • Depression
  • Coping with cancer
  • Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
  • Worry
  • Sleep problems
  • Psychotic disorders
  • Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)
  • Mood disorders
  • Mood changes
  • Memory and concentration problems
  • Mania
  • Fatigue
  • Existential distress
  • Demoralization
  • Coping with cancer treatment
  • Chemo brain
  • Adjustment disorders
  • Agitation

My Specialties

  • Psychiatry and psychiatric care
  • Psychopharmacologic treatment
  • Consultation-liaison psychiatry
  • Meaning-centered psychotherapy (MCP)
Education & Honors

Education

  • MD, Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine

Residencies

  • Psychiatry, Mount Sinai Beth Israel Hospital

Fellowships

  • Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center/Weill Cornell Medical College

Board Certifications

  • Psychiatry, Consultation Liaison Psychiatry

Awards and Honors

  • Fellow, American Psychiatric Association

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Contact and Location

Dr. Rosenthal sees patients at three locations.

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Location
New York, NY
Montvale, NJ
West Harrison, NY
160 East 53rd Street New York NY 10022
225 Summit Avenue Montvale NJ 07645
500 Westchester Avenue West Harrison NY 10604

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Colleagues

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Memorial Sloan Kettering's doctors and scientists are constantly developing new treatments for cancer. MSK is typically running hundreds of clinical trials at a given time.

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Research and Publications

Publications on PubMed

Visit PubMed for a full listing of Dr. Rosenthal’s journal articles. Pubmed is an online index of research papers and other articles from the US National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health.

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Disclosures

Doctors and faculty members often work with pharmaceutical, device, biotechnology, and life sciences companies, and other organizations outside of MSK, to find safe and effective cancer treatments, to improve patient care, and to educate the health care community.

MSK requires doctors and faculty members to report (“disclose”) the relationships and financial interests they have with external entities. As a commitment to transparency with our community, we make that information available to the public.

Michael Rosenthal discloses the following relationships and financial interests:

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