Hot Flashes (Women’s Health)

Dr. Herts is a clinical research investigator at Pharmasite Research. Additionally, she is a clinical psychiatrist in private practice in Baltimore, MD and a psychiatrist at Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital. As a research investigator, Dr. Herts has worked on numerous clinical trials of investigational treatments for central nervous system disorders, including major depression, treatment-resistant depression, bipolar disorder, ADD/ADHD, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and migraine headache.

Dr. Herts earned her medical degree from the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine and completed her residency in Psychiatry at the University of Maryland and Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital. She is board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry. She specializes in the treatment and research of depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, addiction, PTSD, OCD, ADHD, and personality disorders in the adult population. Dr. Herts provides a collaborative, comprehensive, and holistic approach and values continuity of care with other providers and her patients’ loved ones when appropriate and permitted.

Dr. Dubin is a clinical research investigator at Pharmasite Research and a solo practitioner in her private practice in Baltimore, MD. She is also a Coordinator of Psychiatric Education and Training for the Behavioral Health Administration of the state of Maryland and an Associate Training Director in the University of Maryland/Sheppard Pratt Psychiatry Residency Training Program. Board certified in psychiatry and neurology, Dr. Dubin’s clinical interests include mood and anxiety disorders, and her research experience covers obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), major depressive disorder (MDD), treatment-resistant depression, and PTSD.

Dr. Dubin earned her medical degree and completed her residency at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, and she completed an extramural fellowship in cognitive therapy at the Beck Institute for Cognitive Therapy. She has held academic teaching positions in psychiatry at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and Johns Hopkins Medicine. Dr. Dubin is also a member of the Maryland Psychiatric Society, Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, and Founding Fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy.

Dr. Dubin contributes her time to her community as well as other medical professionals. During her time as Associate Training Director of the Adult Outpatient Psychiatry Clinic, she developed an acute crisis intervention program to provide urgent services to medical students in crisis as well as the “Residents’ PA Clinic” that continues to allow residents to see additional patient populations they would not normally encounter in their clinical site. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she volunteered for the Physician Support Line, a national program to support physicians. She has also served on the boards of several local non-profit organizations that support a range of causes, from women experiencing infertility to violence prevention. She is proficient in Hebrew and has a working knowledge of Spanish.

Dr. Hnoosh is Principal Investigator at Pharmasite Research, a primary care physician in the Ambulatory and Emergency Care Clinical Center (AECCC) and women’s health clinic at the Baltimore VA Medical Center, and a primary care physician offering telemedicine services for AkosMD. She is also CEO, owner, and founder of Celesticare, LL, a special needs and elderly care medical equipment retailer that supplies directly to customers as well as to businesses. Dr. Hnoosh’s research experience includes Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, migraine, diabetes, endometrial cancer, and pancreatic cancer.

Dr. Hnoosh earned her medical degrees at the University of Baghdad School of Medicine in Iraq and Xavier University School of Medicine in Aruba. She completed her residency in internal medicine at Medstar Health Internal Medicine and a fellowship in geriatric medicine at the University of Maryland Medical Center, both in Baltimore, MD. She is currently an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and mentors fellows in geriatric medicine and nurse practitioners at Baltimore VA Hospital.