Carmencita C. Vicencio, MD

Carmencita Vicencio, MD, is Attending Psychiatrist at Montefiore and Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at our Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Her clinical focuses are on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, autism spectrum disorder, childhood anxiety and mood disorder and the integrated treatment of mental health and primary care.

In 1987, Dr. Vicencio received her Bachelor of Science at the University of the East in Manila, Philippines. She then attended the Angeles University Foundation College of Medicine in the Philippines, where she received her Doctor of Medicine in 1992. Dr. Vicencio began her postgraduate training in Memphis, Tennessee, at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. There, she completed the Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program in 2004. She continued to train at the institution and completed the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship Program in 2005. Following this, she completed the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship Program at Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center in 2008.

Her research focus is in the area of pharmacogenomics and its role in the treatment of psychiatric disorders. 

Dr. Vicencio is board certified by the American Board of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Neurology.