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Ayman Abdel-Bakey, M.D.
Board Certified Psychiatrist
Ayman Abdel-Bakey, M.D., has been an integral member of the Sterling Behavioral Health Services staff since March 2002. Dr. Bakey received his medical degree in 1987 from Ain Shams University in Cairo, Egypt, and completed a two-year residency at the University's Institute of Psychiatry. After relocating to the United States, Dr. Bakey completed four years of residency at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. He was Board Certified in Psychiatry and Neurology in 1998.
Prior to joining SBHS, Dr. Bakey completed an 18-month fellowship at the National Institute of Mental Health and worked as a Staff Psychiatrist at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C. Dr. Bakey currently treats adult and adolescent patients at SBHS. His areas of interest include schizophrenia, mood disorders, anxiety disorders, and eating disorders.
David M. Band, M.D.
Board Certified Psychiatrist
Medical Director, Co-founder, Co-director
Dr. Band is the Medical Director of Potomac Centers for Excellence, LLC, the parent company of Sterling Behavioral Health Services, LTD, and Potomac Psychological Center, LLC. He grew up in suburban Philadelphia and received his undergraduate degree in Environmental Biology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1975.
After working for one year, including a summer as a Park Ranger, he attended the George Washington University Medical School and graduated in 1980. His Flexible Medical Internship was completed in Boston in 1981, and his Psychiatric Residency at the National Institute of Mental Health - St. Elizabeths Hospital, in Washington, D.C., was completed in 1984. Dr. Band was commissioned as an officer in the U.S. Public Health Service in 1980 and served on active duty for over 20 years. During that time, he worked on the Navajo Reservation in a very rural traditional setting, and then gained extensive inpatient and outpatient experience, both clinical and administrative, in an urban setting with patients diagnosed with a full range of psychiatric illnesses.
During his last six years with the USPHS, Dr. Band ran a community-based treatment program in Washington, D.C. Upon leaving the USPHS, he spent 15 months as the Medical Director of an adolescent residential treatment hospital before co-founding Sterling Behavioral Health Services. Dr. Band specializes in treating children and adolescents, including angry and/or depressed teenagers. His areas of clinical expertise include ADHD, mood and anxiety disorders, school problems, obsessive-compulsive disorder, court-ordered psychiatric evaluations, and conduct and behavioral issues, including those associated with pervasive developmental disorders such as Autism and Asperger's Syndrome.
Sangeeta Chitlu, M.D.
Child, Adolescent, and Adult Psychiatrist
Dr. Sangeeta Chitlu is a qualified, board eligible, child, adolescent and an adult psychiatrist. She completed her Fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry from the University of Maryland/ Sheppard Pratt Health System, Baltimore, MD. While there, she served as a chief resident during her final year of training. She completed her Psychiatry residency training at the Howard University Hospital, Washington D.C in 2007. She was a research assistant at the University of North Carolina,Greensboro in the Department of Prevention of Youth Violence and Aggression prior to joining her Residency. She finished her initial medical training in India before moving to the US in 2002.
She specializes in treating depression, anxiety, psychotic disorders, trauma and ADHD. She provides an individualized treatment program that encourages each and every patient to work to their greatest potential and empowers families to assist their children in the treatment process.
She is a Member of the American Psychiatric Association (APA), the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) and the Psychiatric Society Of Virginia. Dr. Chitlu has been living in the Northern Virginia area since 2003. She can also speak in Hindi and Telugu fluently.
Maria Carmen V. Gonzales-Vigilar, M.D., MS
Board Certified Child, Adolescent, and Adult Psychiatrist
Dr. Gonzales-Vigilar joined Sterling Behavioral Health Services in July 2008. She is a board certified child/adolescent and adult psychiatrist. Her interests include developmental disabilities, depression, anxiety, psychosis, bipolar disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, trauma related conditions including abuse, and disruptive behaviors including Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Currently, she is the medical director of Grafton, a residential treatment center in Berryville , VA , serving children and adolescents. Her initial medical training was at the University of Santo Tomas , Manila , Philippines where she received her medical degree in 1987. For the next 18 months, she served as a government physician in lower income areas of Manila . In 1990, she came to the United States to pursue graduate studies, receiving a Master's Degree in Human Nutrition and Foods from Virginia Tech in 1995. Prior to her formal residency training, she participated in an outreach psychiatric treatment program at St Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington , DC . In 2003, she completed her adult psychiatric residency program at Henry Ford Hospital , Detroit , MI . She continued her training in a child and adolescent fellowship program at Wayne State University, Detroit, MI. She served as the chief resident in her senior year and completed her training in 2006. She became a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology for Adult Psychiatry in 2006 and for Child/Adolescent Psychiatry in 2007. She spent the majority of her practice in an outpatient setting at Michigan before her family moved to Virginia .
Caroline M. Tan, M.D.
Board Certified Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist
Dr. Tan graduated Cum Laude in her undergraduate studies, majored in Biology where she received her Doctorate of Medicine from its affiliated medical school at the Cebu Institute of Medicine, Philippines. She proceeded to train at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York in the Genetics division prior to fulfilling her residency and fellowship training into completion in the United States.
Dr. Tan completed her medical internship in Neurology and Internal Medicine and her residency training in the Psychiatry division at the University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey- Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick, New Jersey for four years. She performed clinical rotations at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical Center, Princeton Medical Center, Princeton House Rehabilitation program, St. Peter's Hospital and at the UMDNJ-community mental health center in Piscataway, all of which saw her actively involved in teaching medical students and residents while mentoring with top scientists and experts in the field who fuelled her interest in early developmental arrests.
Dr. Tan proceeded to pursue a subspecialty fellowship training in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry in a split two- year fellowship programs at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine- Elmhurst Hospital in New York and at North Shore University Hospital- NYU School of Medicine in Manhasset, New York. She obtained a six-month residential training in Adolescent Substance Abuse and Research at North Shore University Hospital as well.
After completing her training in 1999, her family relocated to Virginia. She worked as a consulting pediatric psychiatrist at the affiliated satellite centers, emergency & forensics divisions; public school systems for two years at the Department of Mental Health in Washington, D.C. She then became the Medical Director of Jos-Arz-Cornell residential treatment facility and provided consultation services at a mutilspecialty medical group in Washington, D.C. In 2004, Dr. Tan opened her private practice in Herndon, VA.
In 2009, in recognition of her dedication to provide the highest quality psychiatric services to her patients, Dr. Tan was listed in "Guide to America's Top Psychiatrists" by the Consumers' Research Council of America in 2009.
Dr. Tan is a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology, Inc, a Member Board of the American Academy in Specialty Medicine. She stays as an active member of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, the American Medical Association, Washington Psychiatric Society, and AACAP. Her special interests are in the field of Autism, Neurodevelopmental Disorders, ADHD, Affective Disorders, Tourette's Disorders, Eating Disorders.
Dr. Tan loves to paint and draw, had formal arts training in childhood fueled by an artist-grandmother and continues to draw to her two daughters and to her young patients in training and in practice. She likes writing and illustrating children's stories as well.
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