Brad Foote, M.D., is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at AECOM/Montefiore, and has worked as an Attending Psychiatrist in the Outpatient Psychiatry Department, Montefiore Medical Center, since 1992. He specializes in the treatment of Dissociative Identity Disorder, as well as Complex Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and Borderline Personality Disorder. He was intensively trained in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and has published on adapting DBT for the treatment of Dissociative Identity Disorder. He teaches yearly courses to the Einstein Psychiatry residents in Dissociative Disorders, Complex PTSD, Introduction to Psychotherapy via Video, Brief Dynamic Psychotherapy, and Heinz Kohut’s Self-Psychology. He received the Irma Bland Award for Excellence in Teaching Residents from the American Psychiatric Association in 2009.
Dr. Foote has held various offices for the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD) since 2003, and became an ISSTD Fellow in 2012. He won the Morton Prince Award for Scientific Achievement from ISSTD in 2008 for his publication “Dissociative Disorders and Suicidality in Psychiatric Outpatients” in the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease.
Dr. Foote has published, and presented at international meetings, his research concerning the prevalence of dissociative disorders; suicidality and dissociative disorders; the relationship between dissociative disorders and borderline personality disorder; and other related topics.