Dr. Jisha Philip holds a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) from St. John’s Medical College in India. Showing an early interest in Psychiatry, Jisha Philip pursued a yearlong Honorary Psychiatry Residency at St. John’s Medical College after her rotating internship. Jisha Philip also spent time conducting research at St. John’s before moving to the United Kingdom, where she served as a Medical Observer and then a Psychiatry Resident at NHS North Staffordshire/Harplands Hospital, where she worked with patients dealing with drug and substance abuse. In 2005, Jisha Philip moved to New York, where she helped conduct research at the Mezitis Education and Research Institute before serving as a Medical Extern at Jamaica Hospital in Jamaica, New York. Jisha Philip has continued her residency in Psychiatry at the University of Louisville in Kentucky and is currently at the Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City, New York, where she will be until June 2010. At the Beth Israel Medical Center, Jisha Philip works with both in- and outpatients and is receiving training in cognitive behavioral therapy, family therapy, and psychodynamic therapy. Jisha Philip is now pursuing certification in Psychiatry from the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. In recognition of her research and observations, Jisha Philip has been invited to give a number of presentations at conferences around the world. At NHS North Staffordshire in the United Kingdom, Jisha Philip gave a video presentation that explored the different skills and techniques necessary for successful interviewing. In 2008 at the APA Meeting in Washington, D.C., Jisha Philip gave a presentation entitled “Do Different Kinds of Child Maltreatment Predict to Different Kinds of Personality Disorders?,” which she repeated at the Beth Israel Research Fair in New York. For the 2009 World Psychiatric Association Meeting in Florence, Italy, Jisha Philip helped prepare conclusions about behavioral psychology for a colleague’s presentation of their findings titled, “Are Specific Types of Childhood Trauma Associated with Specific Personality Traits in Adulthood?”