Specialty	Psychiatry
Clinical Interests	Anxiety Disorders
	Stress Management
	Neuropsychiatry
	General Psychiatry
Languages	English
	French
	Italian
Gender	Female
E-mail	silvana.riggio@mssm.edu
Education and Training	MD, University of Torino
	Internship, Internal Medicine, Union Memorial Hospital
	Residency, Neurology, Georgetown University Hospital
	Residency, Psychiatry, New York Presbyterian Hospital
	Fellowship, Neuro-Electroencephalography, Johns Hopkins Hospital
	Fellowship, Epilepsy, Medical College of Pennslyvania

Dr. Silvana Riggio is a Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology. She received her medical degree from the University of Torino (Italy). She completed a neurology residency at Georgetown University and a psychiatry residency at New York Presbyterian Hospital (Cornell). She is fellowship trained in EEG and neurophysiology at Johns Hopkins, and in epilepsy at the Medical College of Pennsylvania. Dr. Riggio was the Director of the Epilepsy Program at the Mayo Clinic Jacksonville before relocating to New York City in 1995.

Dr. Riggio's areas of expertise are Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Management.  She has an active presence at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and has won teaching awards from the Department of Psychiatry and from the Institute for Medical Education. She is trilingual in English, Italian, and French and maintains an internationally recognized clinical practice.

Dr. Riggio is the Director of the Consultation Liaison Service in the Department of Psychiatry at the James J. Peters VA, where she is responsible for teaching medical students, residents, and fellows. She has been active in the American Psychiatric Association, the American Academy of Neurology, and the Epilepsy Society. Over her career, she has been an investigator in multiple clinical trials and has published on her work. She is currently working with the CDC and the Department of Defense on issues related to the diagnosis and management of traumatic brain injury.

Dr. Riggio has lectured nationally and internationally. In March 2006 she organized a course on Psychiatric Emergencies in Rome, Italy, at the annual SOPSI Congress; in November 2006 she organized a track on Psychiatric Emergencies at the SIMEU / ACEP Congress in Torino, Italy; in May 2007 she organized a course on "The Routine EEG in Clinical Practice: Indications and Limitations" at the annual APA Congress in San Diego, California; and in February 2008, she was visiting professor at the Chinese University, Hong Kong, China. She has published extensively in both the Psychiatric and Neurologic literature; she has edited four books and two  theme issue  of the Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine one on Neuropsychiatry  and one on Traumatic Brain Injury: from Bench to Bedside to Home.

Education and Training	MD, University of Torino
	Internship, Internal Medicine, Union Memorial Hospital
	Residency, Neurology, Georgetown University Hospital
	Residency, Psychiatry, New York Presbyterian Hospital
	Fellowship, Neuro-Electroencephalography, Johns Hopkins Hospital
	Fellowship, Epilepsy, Medical College of Pennslyvania
Board Certification	Psychiatry

Specialty	Psychiatry
Clinical Interests	Anxiety Disorders
	Stress Management
	Neuropsychiatry
	General Psychiatry
Languages	English
	French
	Italian
Board Certification	Psychiatry

• Principal Investigator, NIMH, "Clinical Antipsychotic Trials of Intervention Effectiveness" CATIE http://171.66.123.143/cgi/content/full/353/12/1209 (from NEJM)
• Principal Investigator (VA Site), NIMH, Conte Center Grant, "White Matter Abnormalities in Schizophrenia"

Sano M Editor. Neuropsychiatry. Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine 2006 Nov; 73(7).

Riggio S. Neuropsychiatric manifestations of nonconvulsive status. Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine 2006 Nov; 73(7): 960-966.

Nonconvulsive status epilepticus: clinical features and diagnostic challenges. Psychiatr Clin North Am 2005 Sept; 28(3): 653-664.

Riggio S Editor. Neuropsychiatry. Psychiatric cinics of North America. Philadelphia: 2005, Saunders; 2005. pp751.

Riggio S, Harvey PD. Neurocognition, symptomatology, and functional skills in older alcohol-abusing schizophrenia patients. Schizophr Bull 2005 Jan; 31(1): 175-182.

Jagoda A, Riggio S. Mild traumatic injury and the postconcussive syndrome. In: Psychiatric emergencies. Emergency medicine clinics of North America. Philadelphia: 2000, Saunders; 2000. pp173-269.

Jagoda A, Riggio S, editors. Psychiatric emergencies. Emergency medicine clinics of North America. Philadelphia: 2000, Saunders; 1995. pp363.

Jagoda A, Riggio S. Mild traumatic injury and the postconcussive syndrome. In: Psychiatric emergencies. Emergency medicine clinics of North America. Philadelphia: 2000, Saunders; 1995.

Repetitive motor activity in frontal lobe epilepsy. Adv Neurol 1995; 66: 153-164.

Jasper H Editor, Riggio S Editor, Goldman-Rakic P Editor. Epilepsy and the functional anatomy of the frontal lobe. Adv Neurol 1995;.