Carla Sadik Blumenthal, L.C.S.W., is an assistant Clinical Professor in Clinical Psychiatric Social Work at Columbia University. For thirty years, she was a Senior Clinical Social Worker and Researcher on the General Clinical Research Unit at the New York State Psychiatric Institute. She also was an Adjunct Professor at the Erenkrantz School of Social Work, New York University where she taught both “Social Work with Groups” and “Ethno-cultural Issues in Social Work.

Ms Sadik Blumenthal earned her undergraduate degree in Judaic Studies and Secondary Education from S.U.N.Y. at Buffalo in 1973 and her M.S.W. from Yeshiva University in 1975. She began her career at P.I in 1979 as a research social worker and then went on to become the senior social worker with the Department of Clinical Psychopharmacology. During those years she developed her specialty of working with the Eating Disorder population as well as Major Affective disorder. Ms. Sadik Blumenthal was active in Eating Disorder Research and has co authored publications, including a paper on "Treatment of Eating Disorders Within a Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Framework".

For the past 12 years, Ms. Sadik Blumenthal has worked on the General Clinical Research Unit as a Senior Clinical Social Worker, an inpatient research unit where she continues to work with adolescents and adults suffering from Eating Disorders, Major Affective Disorder and Borderline Personality Disorder. She is instrumental in the training and supervision of Social Work Graduate Interns, attending Columbia University, New York University and Hunter College. She also supervises PGY II residents in group psychotherapy.

Last updated October 12, 2010.