Diane Kaufman, M.D.

Dr. Diane Kaufman is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at Univeristy of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey, New Jersey Medical School. Her affiliation with UBHC began in 1986 and she has been providing psychiatric services at University Behavioral HealthCare since then . Dr. Kaufman has been Medical Director of Pre-school services, Medical Director of the Crisis Unit for Children and Adolescents, and most recently, "hands-on" adult and child psychiatrist within UBHC Brief Treatment. Dr. Kaufman is the Director of the Writing Life Program, which includes the 'Parents Are People Too!' parenting education program (recognized as "exemplary" by the New Jersey Children's Trust Fund), as welll as school, drug rehabilitation, and shelter-based creative writing programs. From 1999-2002, she was the Newark Chairperson to the National Campaign to Stop Violence-Do The 'Write' Thing Challenge. In May 2000, Dr. Kaufman was the honored recipient of the New Jersey Health Care Foundation's Humanism in Medicine Award.