EDUCATION / TRAINING
Dr. Preter was educated in the European medical tradition in France and Germany with electives at Children's Hospital at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Preter obtained a European Master's and Ph.D. degree in Psycholinguistics and Special Education. Dr. Preter obtained her psychiatric training in New York City at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and New York Presbyterian Hospital, Payne Whitney Clinic. Dr. Preter is educated as a child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.

After completing her psychiatric training, Dr. Preter served as Assistant Professor of Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry of the University of Mississippi Medical Center, where she taught students and residents. Dr. Preter's clinical work focused on community psychiatry and she was in charge of a newly established child and adolescent psychiatric clinic in a rural community. Upon her return to New York City, Dr. Preter commenced her private practice of child, adolescent and adult psychiatry, worked in a community psychiatry clinic and served as child and adolescent psychiatric consultant and clinical supervisor at the CUNY Graduate Center, Program in Clinical Psychology.

Dr. Preter is on faculty at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute where she teaches, supervises, and serves as Director of Children's Clinical Services at the Treatment Center.

Dr. Preter is involved in scholarly work in the area of psychodynamic psychotherapy in youth with anxiety disorders at Weill Cornell Medical College.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
New York Psychoanalytic Institute and Society nypsi.org (Faculty; Member; Clinical Director of Children's Services at the Treatment Center) American Psychoanalytic Association (Member) apsa.org Association for Child Psychoanalysis (Member) childanalysis.org Women's Mental Health Consortium at New York Presbyterian Hospital (Member) wmhcny.org Independent Doctors of New York, (Member) idny.org American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (Member) aacap.org Weill Cornell Medical College (Clinical Assistant Professor) psychiatry.weill.cornell.edu/about-department/faculty International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA) idny.org


Dr. Preter has served on numerous committees of professional organizations, such as Chair of the Candidates' Council Scientific Paper Prize of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Co-chair of the Candidates' Organization of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, Co-chair of the Early Career Psychiatrist Committee of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Member of the International Training and Mentoring Committee and Didactic Curriculum Subcommittee, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry.

Dr. Preter is licensed as a physician in New York State and board certified in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Adult Psychiatry by the American Board of Neurology and Psychiatry. Dr. Preter also holds European Union Medical Licensure.

HONORS AND AWARDS
Castle Connolly 2019 Exceptional Women in Medicine Award
Castle Connolly Best Doctor, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
Chief Resident, Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Resident Fellow of the American Psychoanalytic Association
Resident Fellow of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute
European Award of the French Society for the History of the Hospitals
("Prix européen Cofrahope" of the Societé française d'Histoire des Hôpitaux)

ACADEMIC HONORS
Magna Cum Laude Medical Dissertation: Receptive Language, expressive language and psychiatric co-morbidities in pre-school children with developmental dysphasia.
Magna Cum Laude Psycholinguistic Dissertation: Language Development, Developmental Language Delay and Time Processing: A Longitudinal Study.
With excellence M.A. Master Thesis: Language Comprehension and Production in pre-school children with developmental dysphasia.