Stelian Camara Dit Pinto

Description

Dr. Camara Dit pinto joined the Long Island University – Brooklyn, school of computer science, digital engineering and AI as a postdoctoral fellow in 2023. Prior to joining LIU Brooklyn, Dr. Camara Dit Pinto was finishing his PhD thesis on the use of digital twins for decision support in the oil-and-gas domain.

Research

• Design of Digital Twins as decision support systems for situation awareness

During is PhD thesis, Dr. Camara Dit Pinto studied the design of the digital twin paradigm as a way to support situation awareness in the case of complex system management. His research, conducted with Total Energies, focused on bridging the gap between technology design and human situation awareness. Following the precepts of Human System Integration, Dr. Camara Dit Pinto implemented a novel design methodology and applied it to the design of an oil-and-gas platform control room. Motivated by the potential of such tools and methodology, he crossed to the biomedical field helping design similar tools to support health management.

• Design of organ virtual twins for supporting medical decision making

Looking to increase his knowledge of digital twin design, Dr. Camara Dit Pinto started a postdoctoral position at LIU to study the design of organ virtual twins. Mostly focused on the liver, Dr. Camara Dit Pinto work gave birth to implantation of a virtual lobule model – first step to a full virtual Living Liver. This novel model opens the way to virtual drug screening and is a first step towards human digital twin and clinical decision support. He is now pursuing his work towards the improvement of the Living Liver virtual twin, adding more physiological phenomena such as lymph dynamics and helping broadening clinicians’ understanding of the liver physiology in partnership with Baylor College of Medicine. Looking to increase his knowledge of digital twin design, Dr. Camara Dit Pinto started a postdoctoral position at LIU to study the design of organ virtual twins. Mostly focused on the liver, Dr. Camara Dit Pinto work gave birth to implantation of a virtual lobule model – first step to a full virtual Living Liver. This novel model opens the way to virtual drug screening and is a first step towards human digital twin and clinical decision support. He is now pursuing his work towards the improvement of the Living Liver virtual twin, adding more physiological phenomena such as lymph dynamics and helping broadening clinicians’ understanding of the liver physiology in partnership with Baylor College of Medicine.

Selected Publications

• Chen CK, Sloane PD, Barrick AL, & Zimmerman S. (2007). Assisted Living Policies Promoting Autonomy and their Relationship to Depression. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 15(2), 122-129.
• Chen, C.K., Waters, H.S., Hartman, M., Zimmerman, S., Miklowitz, D.J. & Waters, E. (2013). The secure base script and the task of caring for elderly parents: Implications for attachment theory and clinical practice. Attachment and Human Development, 15(3), 332-348.
• Denckla, C.A., Bailey, R., Jackson, C.,Tatarakis, J., Chen, C. (2015). A Novel Adaptation of Distress Tolerance Skills Training Among Military Veterans: Outcomes in Suicide Related Events. Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 22, 450-457. doi:10.1016/j.cbpra.2014.04.001
• Chen, C.K. (2016). Defiance, denial, and defining limits: Helping Family Caregivers of Individuals with Dementia Distinguish the Tap-out from the Cop-out. Journal of Psychotherapy Integration. doi:10.1037/int0000017
• Chen, CK., Ingenito, C., Kehn, M., & Nehrig, N. (2017). Implementing Brief Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy (DIT) in a VA Medical Center. Journal of Mental Health, 28(6), 613-620. https://doi.org/10.1080/09638237.2017.1340602
• Dognin, J. & Chen, C.K. (2018). The secret sorrows of men: Impact of Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy on ‘masculine depression’ Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. https://doi.org/10.1080/02668734.2018.1458747
• Nehrig, N. & Chen, C.K. (2018). How to address the needs of non-responders to REACH VA: A qualitative analysis. Aging and Mental Health. DOI: 10.1080/13607863.2018.1484885
• Chen, C.K., Palfrey, A., Shreck, E., Silvestri, B., Wash, L., Nehrig, N., Baer, A., Schneider, J., Ashkenazi, S., Sherman, S., & Chodosh, J. (2019) Implementation of Telemental Health (TMH) psychological services for rural Veterans at the VA New York Harbor Healthcare System. Psychological Services. doi: 10.1037/ser0000323
• Chen, C.K., Nehrig, N., Abraham, K.S., Wang, B., Palfrey, A.P., & Baer, A.L. (2019). Predictors of symptom remission among family caregivers of individuals with dementia receiving REACH VA. American Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Dementias. doi: 10.1177/1533317519826241.
• Chen, C.K., Nehrig, N., Chou, L., McGowan, R., Guyton, A.F., Mustafiz, F. & Bailey, R. (2019). Patient interpersonal functioning and response to psychotherapy for depression. American Journal of Psychotherapy. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.20190005
• Chen, C.K., Nehrig, N., Wash, L., & Wang, B. (2020) The impact of brief dynamic interpersonal therapy on Veteran depression and anxiety. Psychotherapy, 57(3), 464-468. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pst0000282
• Chen, C.K., Nehrig, N., Wash, L., Schneider, J.A., Ashkenazi, S., Cairo, E., Guyton, A., & Palfrey, A. (2020). When distance brings us closer: leveraging tele-psychotherapy to build deeper connection. Counseling Psychology Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1080/09515070.2020.1779031
• Busch, F., Milrod, B., Singer, M., & Chen, C.K. (2021) Trauma Focused Psychodynamic Psychotherapy. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Chen, C.K., Keefe, J.R. & Srinivasan, R. (2023). Recommendations for dynamic treatment of identity based trauma: Opening the “I” to reflection. American Journal of Psychotherapy.