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Director CL Psychiatry
NYU Langone Health, Manhattan
Marra G. Ackerman, MD is currently the Director for the Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Service at NYU Langone Manhattan and has been a member of the NYU faculty since 2015. In 2005, Dr. Ackerman completed her undergraduate studies at Emory University, where she majored in Biological Anthropology, graduating Phi Beta Kappa, a Fulbright Award finalist, and a Goodrich C. White Merit Scholar. In 2010, Dr. Ackerman obtained her Medical Degree here at the New York University Grossman School of Medicine, graduating Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA). Subsequently, in 2014, she completed an internship and residency in general adult psychiatry at the New York State Psychiatric Institute/Columbia University Medical Center, where she was a Chief Resident. During this time, Dr. Ackerman earned the Gold Humanism in Medicine Award, the Barbara Ann Liskin Award, and the AADPRT Ginsberg Fellowship Award. In June 2015, Dr. Ackerman completed fellowships in CL Psychiatry and Women's Mental Health at NYSPI/CUMC. During this time, she was designated a William Webb Fellow by the ACLP. Dr. Ackerman joined the NYUSOM Department of Psychiatry Faculty Group Practice (FGP) in 2015 where she oversaw the Women’s Mental Health Program and then went on to assume leadership roles as Director of the Psychiatry Faculty Group Practice (FGP) and of the Medical Student and House staff Mental Health Program. She assumed the role of Director of the CL Psychiatry in September 2020. She was recently awarded as an Empire Whole Health Hero for efforts in NYULH staff support during the Covid19 crisis.
