About Us

at the Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research
Geriatric Psychiatry Research Program
Meet the GERI Team!

Antero Sarreal, MD
Dr. Sarreal is the Clinical Research Coordinator for our program. He has been apart of the GERI team since 2007.
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Randy Hernando, MD
Dr. Hernando is a Research Scientist for the GERI. He has been working in clinical trials for over 20 years.
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Vita Pomara
Vita Pomara has been our program's administrator for the past 15 years. Vita is also the back-up study coordinator for GERI.
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Chelsea Plaska Reichert, PhD
Dr. Chelsea Reichert may be our "new" post doc, but she is not new to the GERI team! She is also our former research assistant for the MERI program and has been doing clinical research since 2012.
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Annie Schatz, BA
Annie Schatz is a rater and works on the MERI program. She has been apart of the GERI team since 2019.
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Katie Brundage, BS
Katie Brundage is a rater and coordinator for several of our clinical trials. Katie has been apart of the GERI team sinze 2017.
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Ann Marie
McGrory, BA
Ann Marie is a rater and coordinator for the MERI program. She has been apart of the GERI team since March of 2022.
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Kensei Maeda, BS
Kensei Meada is a coordinator for the ABeta in Late Life Major Depression (LLMD) grant, also known as the ABD study; at sties NKI and NYU.
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Current Interns

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Past Interns

Lauren Sarreal
Wagner College
Class of 2025
Major: BS-MS PA Program

Julia Hoyt
SUNY Geneseo
Class of 2022
Major: Neuroscience