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Irene (Bratti) Hurford, MD, Psychiatry, Jenkintown, PA

IreneM.(Bratti)HurfordMD

Psychiatry Jenkintown, PA

Community, Neuropsychiatry

Program Director, Psychosis Education, Assessment, Care, and Empowerment (PEACE) Program, Horizon House, Inc. Assistant Professor, Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine

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Education & Training

  • UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine/UCLA Medical Center
    UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine/UCLA Medical CenterResidency, Psychiatry, 2002 - 2006
  • Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine
    Michael G. DeGroote School of MedicineClass of 2002
  • University of Toronto
    University of TorontoB.Sc., Psychology, 1999

Certifications & Licensure

  • CA State Medical License
    CA State Medical License 2004 - Present
  • PA State Medical License
    PA State Medical License 2008 - 2024
  • American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Psychiatry

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

  • Fellowship Awardee Career Development Institute (CDI) for Psychiatry, 2008
  • Listed in America's Top Psychiatrists Listed in America's Top Psychiatrists, 2007
  • Attendance Scholarship West Coast College of Biological Psychiatry, 2006
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Clinical Trials

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Journal Articles

  • Recurrent Idiopathic Catatonia: Implications Beyond the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition  
    Caroff SN, Hurford I, Bleir HR, Gorton GE, Campbell EC, Clinical Psychopharmacology and Neuroscience, 1/1/2015
  • The Cognitive Assessment Interview (CAI): Reliability and Validity of a Brief Interview-Based Measure of Cognition  
    Ventura J, Reise SP, Keefe RS, Hurford IM, Wood RC, Bilder RM, Schizophrenia Bulletin, 1/1/2013
  • A Brief Cognitive Assessment Tool for Schizophrenia (B-CATS): Construction of a Tool for Clinicians  
    Hurford IM, Marder SR, Keefe RSE, Reise SP, Bilder RM, Schizophrenia Bulletin, 1/1/2011
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Books/Book Chapters

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Abstracts/Posters

  • A Brief Cognitive Assessment Tool for Schizophrenia (B-CATS): Correlation of a 10-Minute Clinical Tool with a Computerized Neurocognitive Battery.
    Hurford IM, March ME, Richard J, Gur RE, Gur RC, Society for Biological Psychiatry Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, 1/3/2012
  • A Brief Cognitive Assessment Tool for Schizophrenia (B-CATS): Scale Validation
    Hurford IM, Marder SR, Ventura J, Reise SP, Bilder RM, American College of Neuropsychopharmacology Annual Meeting, Miami Beach, FL, 1/7/2010

Lectures

  • "Early Intervention for Psychosis Globally and Locally: Early Outcomes from the PEACE Program" 
    Philadelphia, PA - 1/27/2016
  • "The PEACE Program: A Community-based Early Intervention Program for Psychosis in Philadelphia" 
    Philadelphia, PA - 1/23/2015
  • "PEACE (Psychosis Education, Assessment, Care, and Empowerment): A Community-Based Early Intervention for Psychosis" 
    Community Behavioral Health, Philadelphia, PA - 1/16/2015
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Other

  • Peer Leadership in Early Intervention in Psychosis Services 
    Jones N, Hurford I, Britz, B, Webinar for the National Mental Health Consumer's Self-Help Clearinghouse
    1/27/2015
  • Perpetuating Schizophrenia's Stigma 
    Larkin E and Hurford IM, New York Times
    1/12/2014
  • Psychopharmacological Treatment of Prodromal Schizophrenia 
    Hurford, I., Podcast on Psychiatric Times
    http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/podcasts/content/article/10168/1949646
    1/14/2011
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Press Mentions

  • Filling the Crack in the Liberty Bell
    Filling the Crack in the Liberty BellNovember 23rd, 2018
  • Courts Are Using the Powerful “Black Robe Effect" to Treat Severe Mental Illness. Should They?
    Courts Are Using the Powerful “Black Robe Effect" to Treat Severe Mental Illness. Should They?November 27th, 2017
  • Penn Medicine’s Irene Hurford Receives Exemplary Psychiatrist Award – Newswise (Press Release)
    Penn Medicine’s Irene Hurford Receives Exemplary Psychiatrist Award – Newswise (Press Release)May 27th, 2017
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