Dr. Zharovsky is an accomplished ABPN board-certified psychiatrist in New York City with experience in a multitude of settings including hospitals, emergency rooms, outpatient psychiatric clinics, and primary care/collaborative care clinics.
Dr. Z is dedicated to using her clinical, academic, and leadership experience to provide thoughtful consideration and tailored treatment planning to her person-centered medical practice. She specializes in the treatment of mood and anxiety disorders, psychosis, OCD, ADHD, personality disorders, women's mental health, and weight management/metabolic health.
Dr. Z completed general psychiatry residency at SUNY Downstate. She served as Chief Resident of Outpatient Services centered at NYC Health + Hospitals - Kings County, one of the largest and busiest public hospitals in New York City. She has a strong foundation in academics after completing a Bachelor of Science in Neuroscience and Biology at Brandeis University and Doctor of Medicine at Chicago Medical School, where she was inducted into the esteemed Gold Humanism Honor Society. Additionally, she worked on the PsychENCODE research consortium at Mount Sinai’s Friedman Brain Institute.
She has contributed significantly to the field of psychiatric research, authoring content for Rosh Review/Blueprint Prep and has published numerous papers in neuroepigenomics and mental health disorders in top-tier journals like Nature Neuroscience and Science. Her commitment to the field is also evident from her various leadership roles, memberships in several professional organizations, and through the supervision and didactic teaching she provides to medical students and psychiatric residents.
Outside of medical pursuits, Dr. Z likes to live a well-rounded lifestyle, staying active in the recipe creation community via cooking and food photography, event planning, freelance writing, narrative medicine, watching movies, reading, spending time with family/friends, her dog, and traveling. With native fluency in Russian, she brings a unique blend of skills to her professional and creative pursuits.
