Haviva Malina, MD

Biography

Dr. Haviva Malina is a licensed emergency medicine physician with more than 15 years of experience caring for patients in high-acuity settings. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa, Summa Cum Laude, from Barnard College of Columbia University, receiving departmental honors in Psychology and earned her medical degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She completed her Emergency Medicine residency at the Jacobi/Montefiore program. Dr. Malina became a proponent of ketamine therapy after seeing its rapid and meaningful impact on patients with treatment-resistant depression, anxiety, PTSD, and other mood disorders—particularly during the mental-health crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic. At Keta Medical Center, she leads with a focus on patient safety, compassionate care, and improving access to evidence-based treatments including Spravato®.

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