About Me

Practice Founder and Director (February 2016 – Current)

Psychological Evaluations & Assessments, PLLC. (New York, NY)

• Psychological and Forensic Evaluations
• Risk Assessments
• Cognitive Behavior Therapy
• Bilingual Psychologist

Senior Clinical Consultant (June 2018 – August 2019)

Wediko Children’s Services – Summer Program (Windsor, NH)

• Providing staff training and supervision individually and in groups
• Providing clinical interventions to children and families in person and by phone
• Providing clinical and administrative consultation to the Director, Program Manager and Senior Leadership
• Assisting the Director as needed to meet program needs and goals

Licensed Clinical Psychologist (December 2014 – February 2018)

Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center, Department of Psychiatry                           (Bronx, NY)

• Attending Psychologist on Child and Adolescent Inpatient Psychiatry
  
• Psychological Assessments
• Supervised Psychiatry Fellows, Psychiatry Residents, and Psychology Externs
• Certified Preventing and Managing Crisis Situation (PMCS) Facility Instructor

Clinical Assistant Professor (February 2017 – Current)

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (New York, New York)

Adjunct Associate Instructor (August 2019 – January 2021)

Farkauf Graduate School of Psychology, Yeshiva University (Bronx, New York)

Adjunct Instructor (January 2018 – Current)

Fordham University (Bronx, New York)

• Psychology and the Law
• Personality Psychology
• Social Psychology
• Psychology of Learning

Clinical Instructor (December 2014 – February 2017)

Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center (Bronx, New York)

• Psychological Assessment
• Advanced Psychotherapy Supervision – Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Adjunct Professor (January 2011 – May 2013)

John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York (New York, NY)

• Descriptive Statistics
• Intermediate Statistics for Social Science
• Psychology and the Law

 

Ph.D., Clinical Psychology (September 2014)

The Graduate School and University Center, The City University of New York (New York, NY)

John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The City University of New York (New York, NY)

New York, NY

 

• Mandarin Chinese – certified by Bellevue Interpretive Services

• Shanghai Dialect

PUBLICATIONS

Kadriu, B., Gu, W., Korenis, P., & Levine, J. (2018). Do cognitive and neuropsychological functioning deficits coincide with hippocampal alteration during first-psychotic episode? CNS Spectrums, 1-7. doi:10.1017/S1092852918001293

Gu, W. (2018). Psychotherapy and Neuroscience for Psychiatrists. In Korenis. P (Ed.), Neuroscience for Psychiatrists. New York, NY: Nova Science.

Gu, W., Reddy, H. B., Green, D., Belfi, B., & Einzig, S. (2017). Inconsistent responding in a criminal forensic setting: An evaluating of the VRIN-r and TRIN-r scales of the MMPI-2-RF. Journal of Personality Assessment, 99, 286 – 296. doi:10.1080/00223891.2016.1149483

Gonzalez, L. S., Khadivi, A., Gu, W., Korenis, P. (2016, March). Perceptual Symptoms in the Latino Psychiatric Patients Attending Inner City Outpatient Clinic. European Psychiatry, 33, S542.

Markus, K. A., & Gu, W. (2010, October). [Review of the book Modern Regression Techniques Using R: A Practical Guide for Students and Researchers, by D. Wright & K. London]. Applied Psychological Measurement.

Markus, K. A., & Gu, W. (2009). Bubble Plots as a Model-Free Graphical Tool for Three Continuous Variables and a Flexible R Function to Plot Them. In H. Vinod (Ed.), Advances in Social Science Research Using R (pp. 65 – 94). New York, NY: Springer.

Gu, W. (2023, Aug 9). Psychopathy. Lecture presented at Bellevue Hospital Center for Forensic Psychiatry Fellows Didactics held in New York, NY.

Gu, W. (2022, Aug 11). Psychopathy. Lecture presented at Bellevue Hospital Center for Forensic Psychiatry Fellows Didactics held in New York, NY. 

Gu, W. (2021, Sep 8). MMPI-2-RF Review and MMPI-3 Overview. Lecture presented at St. Luke’s Hospital Psychology Interns Didactics held in New York, NY.

Gu, W. (2021, Sep 1). MMPI-2-RF Overview. Lecture presented at St. Luke’s Hospital Psychology Interns Didactics held in New York, NY.

Gu, W. (2021, Aug 19). Psychopathy. Lecture presented at Bellevue Hospital Center for Forensic Psychiatry Fellows Didactics held in New York, NY.

Gu, W. (2020, Aug 13). The Role of Clinical Psychologists in School Evaluations. Lecture presented at St. Luke’s Hospital Psychology Fellows Didactics held in New York, NY.

Gu, W. (2020, Feb 12). Psychopathy. Lecture presented at Bellevue Hospital Center for Forensic Psychiatry Fellows Didactics held in New York, NY.

Gu, W. (2019, Jun 19). Psychopathy. Lecture presented at Bellevue Hospital Center for Forensic Psychiatry Fellows Didactics held in New York, NY.

Gu, W. (2019, Feb 7). The Role of Clinical Psychologists in School Evaluations. Paper presented at St. Luke’s Hospital Psychology Fellows Didactics held in New York, New York.

Gu, W. (2018, May 9). The Role of Clinical Psychologists in School Evaluations. Paper presented at St. Luke’s Hospital Psychology Interns Didactics held in New York, New York.

 Gu, W. (2017, Oct 31). Trauma Informed Care: The Active Ingredient. Paper presented at Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center grand rounds held in the Bronx, New York.

Ameen, A. M., Badillo, M., Chiapetta, V, Kohut, M. S., Gu, W., & Korenis, P. & Gonzalez, L. (2017, May 21). Understanding posttraumatic-associated pathologies: Presentation and prevalence. Poster presented at the American Psychiatric Association annual meeting held in San Francisco, CA.

Badillo, M., Ameen, A. M., Chiapetta, V, Kohut, M. S., Gu, W., Korenis, P. & Gonzalez, L. (2017, May 20). Identifying Symptoms of Trauma in Children and Adolescents on the Inpatient Psychiatry Service. Poster presented at the American Psychiatric Association annual meeting held in San Francisco, CA.

Ali, A., Korenis, P., Gu, W., & Khadivi, A. (2017, February 16). Violence Factors and Characteristics of Police Ambush Killers. Paper presented at the American Academy of Forensic Sciences annual meeting held in New Orleans, LA.

Kohut, M. S., & Gu, W. (2016, Nov 8). Snared in webs of unwieldy and inefficient systems: Comprehensive treatment and discharge planning for 2 youths. Paper presented at Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center grand rounds held in the Bronx, New York.

Zeshan, M., Cheema, R., Hanif, A., Shengelia, R., Gu, W., Ameen, A. M., Albassam, A., & Sanchez-Lacay, J. A. (2016, Oct 27) Prevalence of substance use in the adolescent psychiatric setting: A resident run performance improvement project. Poster presented at the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Conference head in New York. NY.

Gu, W., Barber-Vioja, V., Garcia-Mansilla, A., Rotter, M. M., & Fernandez, E. (2016, June 23). The Use of the PAI for Mental Health Diversion. Paper presented at the International Association of Forensic Mental Health Services annual conference held in New York, NY.

Zeshan, M., Frischer, K., Korenis, P., Gu, W., Gunturu, S., Munnangi, L. P., Reynoso, M., Cheema, R., Hanif, A., Ameen, A. M. (2016, May 14). Prediction Challenge of Readmission in the Psychiatric Inpatient Setting: A Resident-run Performance Improvement Initiative. Poster presented at the American Psychiatric Association annual meeting held in Atlanta, GA.

Gu, W., Khadivi, A., Sanchez-Lacay, J. A., & Jennings, M. (2016, March 12). Understanding Three Adolescent Patients with Hippocampus Abnormality Using Psychological Assessment. Paper presented at the Society for Personality Assessment annual conference held in Chicago, IL.

Gonzalez, L. S., Khadivi, A., Gu, W., Korenis, P. (2016, March). Perceptual Symptoms in the Latino Psychiatric Patients Attending Inner City Outpatient Clinic. Poster presented at the European Psychopathological Association annual meeting held in Madrid, Spain.

Kadriu, B., Gu, W., Mirchandani, G., Sanchez-Lacay, J. A., & Korenis, P. (2016, March). The Complexity of Morphometric Alterations in Hippocampal Formation During First-Psychotic Episode. Poster presented at the New York State Psychiatric Association annual meeting held in New York, NY.

Kadriu, B., Demetrios, S., Gu, W., Mirchandani, G., Jennings, M., & Sanchez-Lacay, J. A. (2015, November 13). The Complex Multimodal Management of First-Psychotic Episodes in Patients with Morphometric Alteration in Hippocampal Formation. Poster presented at the Neuroscience Education Institute Psychopharmacology Congress held in Orlando, FL.

Lind, L., Livingston, D., Hoffman, M., Gu, W., Korenis, P., & Adebiyi, O. (2015, Nov 12). Violence Prevention and Empathic Limit Setting. Paper presented at Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center grand rounds held in Bronx, New York.

Reynoso, M., Panagiota, K., Frischer, K., Nikzad, V., Baez, J., Gu, W., & Khadivi, A. (2015, May 16). Clinical Characteristics of Assertive Community ACT Patients Who are Repeatedly Hospitalized. Poster presented at the American Psychiatric Association annual conference held in Toronto, Canada.

Cozma, D., Korenis, P., Khadivi, A., Gu, W., & Frischer, K. (2015, May 16). Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes of Patients Who Submit 72 Hour Letters. Poster presented at the American Psychiatric Association annual conference held in Toronto, Canada.

Cozma, D., Korenis, P., Khadivi, A., Gu, W., & Frischer, K. (2015, May 12). Clinical Characteristics of Patients Who Request to Leave the Hospital Against Medical Advice. Paper presented at Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center grand rounds held in the Bronx, New York.

Mirchandani, G., Kadriu, B., Demetrios, S., Fitzgerald, S., & Gu, W. (2015, March 17). Hippocampal Reduction and Psychiatric Sequelae. Paper presented at Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center grand rounds held in the Bronx, New York.

Gu, W., & Garcia-Mansilla, A. (2015, March 7). The Use of the PAI for Jail Diversion. Paper presented at the Society for Personality Assessment annual conference held in Brooklyn, New York.

Gu, W., Markus, K. A., & Garcia-Mansilla, A. (2014, March 22). Mental Health Jail Diversion Outcomes as Predicted by Clinical, Criminological, and Personality Factors. Paper presented at the Society for Personality Assessment annual conference held in Arlington, VA.

Mathews, M. M., Gu, W., Kucharski, L. T. (2013, March 9). An Examination of Factors Affecting the Granting or Denial of Clemency in Capital Cases. Paper presented at the American Psychology-Law Society annual conference held in Portland, OR.

Gu, W., Shiva, A. A., Mathews, M. M., Garcia-Dubus, E., Davidoff, K, & Khadivi, A. (2012, June 2). Utility of the Newly Developed PAI Negative Distortion Scale to Detect Feigning. Paper presented at the 2012 Biennial International Conference held in New York, NY.

Gu, W., Shiva, A. A., Mathews, L. M., Garcia-Dubus, E., Davidoff, K, & Khadivi, A. (2012, April 20). Application of the Newly Developed PAI Negative Distortion Scale to Detect Feigning. Poster presented at All-Psychology Research Day annual conference held at the CUNY Graduate Center, in New York, NY.

Gu, W., Shiva, A. A., Mathews, L. M., Garcia-Dubus, E., Davidoff, K, & Khadivi, A. (2012, March 17). Application of the Newly Developed PAI Negative Distortion Scale to Detect Malingering. Poster presented at the American Psychology-Law Society annual conference held in San Juan, PR.

Gu, W., Shiva, A. A., Khadivi, A., & Mathews, L. M., Markus, K. A. (2011, March). Comparing accuracy of identifying suicide attempt using objective self-report measure, Rorschach, and structured interviewing. Paper presented at the Society for Personality Assessment annual conference held in Boston, MA.

Khadivi, A., Evdokas, A., & Gu, W. (2011, March). Base rate of Cashel Discriminant Function in inner city psychiatric and substance abusing patients. Paper presented at the Society for Personality Assessment annual conference held in Boston, MA.

Gu, W., Shiva, A. A., Toomey, J. A., & Mathews, M. M. (2011, March). Using Personality Assessment Inventory Axis-I Diagnoses and Rule Outs to Detect Malingering. Paper presented at the American Psychology-Law Society annual conference held in Miami, Fl.

Gu, W., Markus, K. A., & Raghavan, C. (2010, November). Differentiating Subtypes of Intimate Partner Violence Using Latent Class Analysis. Paper presented at the American Society of Criminology annual conference held in San Francisco, CA.

Gu, W., Markus, K. A., & Raghavan, C. (2010, April). Differentiating Subtypes of Intimate Partner Violence Using Latent Class Analysis. Poster presented at All-Psychology Research Day annual conference held at the CUNY Graduate Center, in New York, NY.

Markus, K. A., & Gu, W. (2009, June). Bubble Plots as a Model-Free Graphical Tool for Three Continuous Variables and a Flexible R Function to Plot Them. Paper presented at Conference on Quantitative Social Science Research Using R held in New York, NY.

Associate Editor, Open Access Journal of Forensic Psychology

March 2016 – Current

Reviewer, International Association of Forensic Mental Health Services

March 2012 – Current

Reviewer, Journal of Personality Assessment

March 2012 – Current

Reviewer, American Psychology-Law Society

September 2010 – May 2011

Committee Member, Supervision/Consultation Committee (October 2010 – May 2013)

John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York

• Personality Assessment Consultation with the Federal Aviation Administration (2018, March) – Presenter: Chris Front, Psy.D., ABAP
• Trauma Competency Conference (2017, May) – Presenter: Eric Gentry, Ph.D., LMHC
• Certified Preventing and Managing Crisis Situation (PMCS; 2016) Facility Instructor
• Violence Triage (2016, June) – Presenter: Stephen Hart, Ph.D.
• Introducing the MMPI-A-RF (2016, March) – Presenter: Robert Archer, Ph.D.
• Using R-PAS with Children and Adolescents (2015, March) – Presenter: Phil Erdberg, Ph.D.
• The HCR-20 Version 3 workshop (2013, June) – Presenters: Kevin Douglas, Ph.D., Stephen Hart, Ph.D.
• The Rorschach Performance Assessment System (2012, June) – Presenters: Gregory J. Meyer, Ph.D., Donald Viglione, Ph.D.
• DBT Skills Training Workshop (2012, June) – Shari Manning, Ph.D., Haleh Ghanizadeh, M.D.
• Motivational Interviewing and Wellness Self-Management (2012, May) – Presenter: Anthony Salerno, Ph.D.
• Sensitizing Providers to the Effects of Correctional Incarceration on Treatment and Risk Management (2012, May) – Presenter: Merrill Rotter, M.D.
• Cognitive Therapy Workshop (2011, August) – Beck Institute – Presenters: Aaron Beck, M.D., Judith Beck, Ph.D., Leslie Sokol, Ph.D.
• Dialectical Behavioral Therapy Skills Training (2010) – Behavioral Tech, LLC.
• Clinical/Forensic Applications of the Psychopathy Check List – Revised & Psychopathy Screening Version (2009, August) – Presenter: Stephen Hart, Ph.D.
• The Rorschach Comprehensive System (2009, June) – Presenter: Phil Erdberg, Ph.D.
• MMPI-2-RF Workshop (2009, March) – Presenter: Yossef Ben-Borath, Ph.D.