Our Staff
Randy Pardell MD DFAPA Director 
Randy Ian Pardell, MD, DFAPA established TMS Center of the Hudson Valley and Riverview Psychiatric Medicine, PC with the goal of providing the highest quality psychiatric care to residents of the Hudson Valley. Dr. Pardell emphasizes, “We address both the physiological and psychological aspects of each patient to create the optimal individualized treatment plan including medication management, psychotherapy, nutritional supplementation and now Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) the newest technology for treatment resistant depression.”
Dr. Pardell, a board-certified psychiatrist and Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, and the New York University School of Medicine with honors. He completed, with distinction, the Master in Pharmacology Program sponsored by Neuroscience Education Institute. He completed a mini-Fellowship in Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation from Harvard Medical School at the Berenson-Allen Brain Stimulation Center at Beth Israel-Deaconess Hospital Center in Boston. As a highly regarded lecturer, Dr. Pardell has educated fellow physicians and mental health clinicians on the latest pharmacologic and innovative treatments of psychiatric disorders. He was recognized by Castle Connolly as a Top Doctor in the Hudson Valley in the Hudson Valley Magazine in 2010 and Top Doctor in US and News and World Report in 2011. Dr. Pardell has also been featured in Cablevision’s series “Meet the Leaders” to discuss his utilization of TMS to help patients overcome treatment resistant depression.
Dr. Pardell facilitates weekly educational symposia to ensure the clinical staff has the latest updates in mental health treatment.
Terri Coonrad-Hershkowitz NP-P
Ms. Hershkowitz has been immersed in mental health nursing for over 25 years. She was employed on the inpatient mental health units at Benedictine Hospital and then St. Francis Hospital. She completed her undergraduate degree in nursing at State University of New York at New Paltz, and then received her Master’s Degree in Nursing Science from the Russell Sage College in Troy, New York.
Upon completing her nurse practitioner’s degree, Ms. Hershkowitz was employed at Kaiser Permanente until 1999 at which time she joined Dr. Pardell at Riverview. Terri has been trained and certified in Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation and will assist Dr. Pardell in our TMS program as an integral part of the TMS Center of the Hudson Valley.
Joseph Kruk, TMS Technician
Joseph is a Junior at SUNY New Paltz majoring in Biochemistry and taking a premedical curriculum. He has been trained by Dr. Pardell and certified by Neuronetics to administer TMS treatments. Joseph brings his intelligence, compassion and humor to each patient interaction and he is a wonderful addition to our TMS team. Joseph will be participating in our clinical research program to help further TMS as a scientifically rigorous treatment for neuropsychiatric illnesses.
