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Kevin Cates, MD, Psychiatry, Brooklyn, NY, NYU Langone Hospitals

KevinCatesMDMPH(He/Him)

Psychiatry Brooklyn, NY

Attending Psychiatrist

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  • Office

    NYU Langone Health - Sunset Terrace Family Health Center
    514 49th St
    Brooklyn, NY 11220
    Phone+1 718-431-2600
    Fax+1 217-203-6893
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Summary

  • Attending Psychiatrist at NYU Langone Health, Sunset Terrace Family Health Centers.

    Career interests:

    - Working with underserved communities

    - Primarily outpatient, open to some inpatient/call responsibilities with appropriate compensation

    - Providing a mix of psychotherapy and psychopharmacology, plus/minus neuromodulation (ECT/TMS), ketamine, other cutting-edge therapies

    - Addictions treatment as a major component is a plus

    - Psychiatry / Primary Care collaboration can be a plus

    - Teaching medical students & resident physicians is a plus

    - Very comfortable treating addictions, with substantial experience treating alcohol and opioid use disorders, comfortable with suboxone and waivered

    - Comfortable treating serious mental illness, extensive experience with clozapine, lithium, and other psychopharmacology, and certified in the Clozapine REMS program

    - Open to providing ECT/TMS/Ketamine, with substantial experience providing these in previous positions

    - Looking in a variety of locations, but connections to NYC, New England and Chicago, making opportunities in those locations especially appealing

    - Work site must be NHSC-approved

Education & Training

  • Boston VA Healthcare System (Brockton-West Roxbury)/Harvard Medical School
    Boston VA Healthcare System (Brockton-West Roxbury)/Harvard Medical SchoolResidency, Psychiatry, 2018 - 2022
  • Boston VA Healthcare System (Brockton-West Roxbury)/Harvard Medical School
    Boston VA Healthcare System (Brockton-West Roxbury)/Harvard Medical SchoolChief Residency, Psychiatry, 2020 - 2021
  • Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine
    Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of MedicineClass of 2018, MD
  • University of Illinois
    University of IllinoisMPH, Health Education, 2010 - 2012
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignBA

Certifications & Licensure

  • NY State Medical License
    NY State Medical License 2021 - 2025
  • MO State Medical License
    MO State Medical License 2020 - 2025
  • MA State Medical License
    MA State Medical License 2018 - 2022
  • American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Psychiatry

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

  • Professionalism Award Harvard South Shore Psychiatry Residency, 2019
  • 'CLEAR' Leadership Award Western Michigan University School of Medicine, 2018

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Journal Articles

  • Assessment of QTc and Risk of Torsades de Pointes in Ventricular Conduction Delay and Pacing: A Review of the Literature and Call to Action  
    Funk, MC, Cates, KW, Rajagopalan, AK, Lane, CE, and J Lou., Journal of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, 2/13/2021

Books/Book Chapters

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Abstracts/Posters

  • ×Collaborative Care in a Federally Qualified Health Center in Brooklyn: A Visual Approach to Program Assessment
    Elizabeth Allan, MD, Kevin Cates, MD, Olga Lanina, MS, American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, 2023, San Francisco, CA, 5/23/2023
  • You Do the Math! QT-Prolonging Medications in the Context of Falsely QT-Prolonging Cardiac Pacemaker, Presented in Two Cases
    Cates, K.W., Rajagopalan, A., Robinson, R., and Funk, M., Harvard South Shore Psychiatry Research Day, Boston, MA, 5/6/2020
  • Disordered Eating Behaviors in Sexual- and Gender-Minority Adolescents: A Literature Review
    Schumacher, K., and Cates, K., American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 66th Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, 10/18/2019
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Committees

  • IRB Member, Institutional Review Board, Fenway Health Center 2019 - 2021
  • Resident Co-Chair, Massachusetts Psychiatry Society, Committee on Addictions 2019 - 2020

Hospital Affiliations