Karen Hirschkorn, NPP

Karen Hirschkorn grew up in Manhattan and graduated from the private school, Riverdale Country School. She went on to earn her undergraduate degree in Human Development and Family Studies from the University of Vermont. Four years later, she received her graduate degree from Vanderbilt University in Psychiatric Nursing. Karen became licensed as a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner in 1996 and began her career in psychiatric homecare working with chronically psychiatrically ill patients. She went on to work at St. Mary's Hospital for Children for eight years where she provided all the psychopharmacology services to medically complex children with HIV, Diabetes and Brain Injury- children struggling with various disorders such as depression and anxiety. Karen also provided individual and family therapy both on-site and in her private practice she opened in 1999.

 

Karen received ongoing training from the Beck Institute in Philadelphia and became a certified Cognitive Therapist. She was also appointed as an adjunct for both the undergraduate and graduate psychiatric programs at NYU School of Nursing until 2011.

 

In 1999, in conjunction with Karen's other roles, she became a medical staff provider at St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital, working in the Comprehensive Care Clinic, with the HIV population and their families, until 2013.

 

From 2011-2017 Karen received intensive family and couple works training at the Ackerman Institute for the Family. 

 

Professional Associations                        

• Nurses House, Board Member (2011-2013)

•  American Psychiatric Nurses Association, NY State Chapter, Board Member (2012-2014)

• Academy of Cognitive Therapy, Professional Member

• Academy of Nurse Practitioners, Professional Member

• American Psychiatric Nurses Association

• National Eating Disorders Association, Professional Member

• Women's Mental Health Consortium, Professional Member

 

Publications

The Effectiveness of Risperidone in the treatment of three children with feeding disorders.

 Paul Berger-Gross, Daniel J. Coletti, Karen HIrschkorn, Elise Terranova, and Edwin F. Simpser.

 

Journal of Child-Adolescent Psychopharmacology, 2004, 14(4): 621-627.

 

Published in Volume: 14 issue 4: January 20, 2005