Trupti Rao, M.A., Psy.D., is a New York State licensed psychologist and serves as the director of Child Welfare Services and the director of Psychology Training at the Westchester Institute for Human Development, in Valhalla, New York. She has been at WIHD for 20 years and is responsible for leading and managing the continuum of Child Welfare programs including the Pediatric Medical Unit, Educational Coordination, Evaluations, Project IMPACT and Every Family Counts Aftercare program. Dr. Rao also serves as the Director of Psychology Training, leading and managing the recruitment, training and supervision of pre- and post-doctoral level psychology trainees. She was co-developer of Project IMPACT, WIHD’s intensive, in-home preventive parenting program serving parents with intellectual disabilities, and has had several peer reviewed journal articles published in relation to Project IMPACT. Dr. Rao has also presented information about the program and findings about the efficacy of the model at both local presentations and national conferences. She has experience providing direct services, managing programs, and supervising clinical staff. She is an assistant professor at the School of Health Sciences and Practice at New York Medical College and an adjunct faculty professor in the Psychology Department at Iona University. Dr. Rao previously served as Vice-President of a board that provided supports to South Asian survivors of domestic violence.

Areas of Expertise

• Child Welfare System
• Parents with Intellectual Disabilities
• Children with Developmental Disabilities
• Clinical and Developmental needs of Children

Education

• B.A., Psychology, Boston University
• M.A., Clinical Psychology, University of Hartford
• Psy.D., Clinical Psychology, University of Hartford

Publications

• Mandava A, Koppula V, Kandati M, et. al. "Multimodality Imaging in the Diagnosis and Staging of Gestational Choriocarcinoma." The Indian journal of radiology & imaging, 35(1), (2024) 148-158. doi: 10.1055/s-0044-1788590
• Thandla SR, Armstrong GQ, Menon A, et. al. "Comparing new tools of artificial intelligence to the authentic intelligence of our global health students." BioData mining, 17(1), (2024) 58. doi: 10.1186/s13040-024-00408-7
• Jain A, Pandey MK, Rao TSS, et. al. "Development and validation of the premenstrual dysphoric disorder scale in Indian females." Indian journal of psychiatry, 66(10), (2024) 929-937. doi: 10.4103/indianjpsychiatry.indianjpsychiatry_354_24
• Cui K, Zhang T, Rao T, et. al. "Phase-matched five-wave mixing in zinc oxide microwire." Nanophotonics (Berlin, Germany), 13(18), (2024) 3403-3409. doi: 10.1515/nanoph-2024-0129
• Hwang J, Rao TC, Tao J, et. al. "Apoptotic signaling by TNFR1 is inhibited by the α2-6 sialylation, but not α2-3 sialylation, of the TNFR1 N-glycans." The Journal of biological chemistry, (), (2024) 108043. doi: 10.1016/j.jbc.2024.108043
• Rao TMN, Thakar S, Lakha A, et. al. "Radiation-induced Moyamoya syndrome-missed diagnosis with a fatal outcome in a recurrent craniopharyngioma." Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery, 41(1), (2024) 5. doi: 10.1007/s00381-024-06689-x
• Agrawal S, Abhishek Batta S, Rao T, et. al. "Hypertonic saline in acute decompensated heart failure (HSHF)." Indian heart journal, (), (2024) . pii: S0019-4832(24)00458-9. doi: 10.1016/j.ihj.2024.11.246

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