About Dr. Chalemian

Bliss A. Chalemian, MD is a double-board certified Psychiatrist in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and General Psychiatry.  Dr. Chalemian completed her General Psychiatry Residency at UMDNJ, Robert Wood Johnson, Medical School, and went on to complete a Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Long Island Jewish/Schneider’s Children’s Hospital in New Hyde Park, NY.  She worked both in A.O. Fox Memorial Hospital in Oneonta, NY managing an inpatient unit, and Beth Israel Medical Center, NYC managing an addictions unit with Residents and Fellows. She then worked at Bergen Regional Medical Center in Paramus, NJ managing both inpatient and outpatient child, adolescent and adult psychiatry patients, as well as held supervisory roles with psychiatry residents and weekly grand rounds. Dr. Chalemian also worked closely with her father, Dr. Robert Chalemian, in private practice for over 10 years, and since Dr. Robert’s retirement, she has taken over the practice.  

Dr. Chalemian has experience treating a wide range of child, adolescent and adult psychiatric patients. Her expertise includes the assessment and management of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD) of all ages, and, in particular, the inattentive type symptoms when they might be obscured by mood/anxiety symptoms and/or learning difficulties. She also specializes in the management of anxiety spectrum disorders, obsessive compulsive disorders, chronic tic, somatic, sleep-wake, various mood, and psychotic disorders.