Jacqueline Becker

Jacqueline Helcer-Becker, Ph.D. completed the Clinical Psychology training program in 2017. She completed her pre-doctoral internship at Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA and then returned to the New York area, where she is currently completing her post-doctoral fellowship in Clinical Neuropsychology at North Shore/Long Island Jewish Medical Center within Northwell Health. Prior to her doctorate, Jackie received a Master's degree in Mental Health Counseling from Fordham University and worked as a program director and study therapist at Columbia University Medical Center in the Neurocognitive Rehabilitation Lab, providing CBT and cognitive remediation to adults with severe mental illness, treatment-resistant depression, or early stage dementia. As a doctoral student, she completed externships at Mount Sinai Hospital’s Department of Pediatrics, and at Weill Cornell Medical College within the Department of Neurosurgery and Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit. In addition to receiving broad training in modalities of psychotherapy and neuropsychological assessment, Jackie is fluent in four languages and also has experience delivering these services in Spanish and Portuguese. Her research interests have focused on cognitive and behavioral aspects of medical or neurologic illnesses. For her master’s thesis, she investigated prognostic awareness in advanced-stage cancer patients at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. For her dissertation, she examined the utility of the pre-transplant psychosocial assessment in predicting post-transplant outcomes in liver transplant patients at Mount Sinai. She has continued research collaborations with Dr. Annunziato, working on publishing her dissertation findings, as well as serving as an interventionist on an NIDDK-funded study of remote adherence intervention for adolescent liver transplant recipients.

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Fordham University (2012 — 2017)
• M.S. Fordham University (2008 — 2010)
• B.A. University of Miami

Companies

• Clinical Neuropsychologist/Assistant Professor of Medicine Mount Sinai Health System (2019)
• Clinical Neuropsychology Fellow Northwell Health (2017 — 2019)
• Clinical Fellow in Neuropsychology Harvard Medical School/Massachussets General Hospital (2016 — 2017)
• Doctoral Candidate, Clinical Psychology Fordham University (2012 — 2017)
• Neuropsychology Extern Weill Cornell Medical College/New York Presbyterian (2014 — 2016)
• Senior Interventionist and Research Coordinator - Pediatrics Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (2013 — 2016)
• Research Affiliate Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (2012 — 2016)
• Program Director/Study Therapist Columbia University Medical Center (2010 — 2013)
• Substance Abuse Therapist Parallax Center for Intensive Outpatient Substance Abuse (2010 — 2011)