Meet the Psychologists of the Wilkins Center
Dr. Elisa Mambrino, Ph.D.
Dr.
Mambrino is a psychologist licensed in Connecticut and New York. Her
clinical training, experience and interests focus upon individualized
psychological, psychoeducational and neuropsychological assessment (with
projectives), primarily with children, adolescents and young adults.
Training and experience in individual and group therapy within a
cognitive-behavioral modality, include features of psychodynamic and family
systems theory.
Dr.
Mambrino worked as a Marie Kessel Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of
Psychiatry at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. She
also completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Yale University School of
Medicine’s Child Study Center. In 2003, Dr. Mambrino received her Ph.D. from
Columbia University’s Teachers College in School Psychology, a program
accredited by the American Psychological Association (APA). She completed an
APA-accredited, pre-doctoral internship in Clinical Neuropsychology and
Rehabilitation Psychology at Mount Sinai Hospital and Mount Sinai School of
Medicine in Manhattan. For three years prior to that, Dr. Mambrino was a
clinical trainee in the Neuropsychological Assessment Service at New-York
Presbyterian Hospital (NYPH), Weill Cornell Westchester Division. Additional
clinical training included a two-year clinical externship on the Adolescent
Unit at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine Rose F. Kennedy Children’s
Evaluation and Rehabilitation Center (CERC) in New York City. At CERC, she
was designated a Pre-doctoral Fellow in Psychology. In her career as part of
a multidisciplinary treatment team, Dr. Mambrino has performed
individualized neuropsychological assessments in a variety of hospital
settings: outpatient clinics, day hospital, day treatment, locked inpatient
psychiatric units, as well as spinal cord and brain injury rehabilitation
settings.
At Yale, Dr. Mambrino
completed the NIMH Research Seminar in Childhood Neuropsychiatric Disorders.
Dr. Mambrino was also the Project Director for a randomized clinical trial
of a cognitive-behavioral intervention in a sample of children and
adolescents in the State of Connecticut’s Judicial Branch Court Support
Services Division. At NYPH, she was the Research Coordinator for a
randomized, double blind comparison of the time course in two
extended-release oral delivery systems of methylphenidate given to children
diagnosed with ADHD. Dr. Mambrino’s own research interests and efforts
explore the complex cognitive process of expository writing.
Publications:
Mambrino, E. (2009,
in press). Introduction. In Eric Arzubi and Elisa Mambrino (Eds.),
A guide to neuropsychological testing for health care professionals. NY:
Springer Publishing Company.
Mambrino, E. (2010,
in press). Written expression as a neuropsychological nexus. In Elena
Grigorenko, Elisa Mambrino, & David Preiss (Eds.), Handbook of
writing: A mosaic of new perspectives. NY: Psychology Press.
Medalia, A., & Mambrino, E. (2009, in press). A
neuropsychological educational approach to remediation. In Volker Roder and
Alice Medalia (Eds.), Understanding and treating neuro- and
social-cognition in schizophrenia patients. Basel, Switzerland: S.
Karger AG.
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