Edward Kantor

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Edward Kantor
MUSC Health Rutledge Tower Office

(843) 792-9162

135 Rutledge Avenue Charleston, SC 29425
About

Edward Kantor

Dr. Ed Kantor is an associate professor and the residency director for psychiatry at MUSC (the Medical University of South Carolina) and is a distinguished fellow in the American Psychiatric Association. His clinical work is predominantly in emergency psychiatry, general hospital psychiatry, and geriatrics. He also supervises residents in a variety of outpatient training settings including a new collaborative care project in HIV psychiatry with the infectious diseases division and the National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center. Dr. Kantor serves as a co-director for the combined training programs in internal medicine/psychiatry and neurology/psychiatry. He serves as the co-chair of the College of Medicine’s graduate medical education (GME), diversity strategic planning committee and has expanded the diversity planning, education, and recruitment efforts for residency training in psychiatry and across the medical specialties. He completed his premedical training at the University of Pennsylvania, and attended Hahnemann University in Philadelphia for medical school (now Drexel University) and a psychiatry residency (chief residency) at the University of Virginia, in Charlottesville. He also serves as the state liaison/chair for disaster psychiatry for the South Carolina Psychiatric Association and is a member of the GAP committee on disasters and the world, and a co-author of Disaster Psychiatry, Readiness, Evaluation and Treatment (APPI 2012) and Hidden Impact, What to know before the next disaster (2010).Before coming to MUSC, Dr. Kantor was the residency director at the University of Virginia, in Charlottesville, where he was active in community mental health, and disaster and emergency response. There he was the first medical director of a joint university-community crisis stabilization program, and helped to found the regional police mental health training initiative. Clinically, he has served as the director of consult-liaison, emergency and community psychiatry division since 2003 and held appointments in psychiatry and emergency medicine. He is board certified in psychiatry, psychosomatic medicine through the ABPN and has interprofessional board certification in traumatic stress and crisis and emergency response through the AAETS.He also obtained a demonstration grant from HHS for a community service, public education leadership project for medical students using a disaster response focus, which became the first student-led medical reserve corps (UVAMRC) in 2003. The program was recognized by the U.S. Surgeon General’s Office as a model program for universities. Dr. Kantor also received an NIMH outreach mental health education grant to promote public and professional understanding and to decrease stigma related to mental illness. In medical school he served as a volunteer and director of the Homeless Clinics Project in Philadelphia, a student-run health care project, which was recognized as the 809th point of light by the President of the United States in 1992.
Primary Specialty

Psychiatrist

Practice MUSC Health Rutledge Tower
Gender Male
Education Drexel University /Medical College of Pennsylvania
Training University of Virginia Health System, University of Virginia Health System
Certification SC, SC-31488, VA, VA-0101057973, VA-0116007412, SC-BK6318984, SC-2031488, American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology, American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology-192, American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology-48860
Accepting New Patients
Insurances Accepted Aetna (PPO), Managed Choice, Open Choice and Exclusive Choice), Ambetter from Absolute Total Care (Marketplace) , BCBS Blue Essentials (Marketplace), Blue Choice Blue Option (Exchange Plan), Blue Choice MyChoice (Available as individual commercial product), Blue Cross Blue Shield Preferred Blue (PPC), Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Choice HealthCare (Group Health Plan), Blue Cross Blue Shield Federal (FEP), Blue Cross Blue Shield Planned Administrators, Blue Cross Blue Shield State Health Plan for South Carolina, Cigna, Coventry, Employers Health Network/SC Business Coalition on Health, First Health, Great West Healthcare (Part of Cigna now), Humana ChoiceCare PPO (Group Health Plan) , Medcost, Tricare, United HealthCare, AllWell by Absolute Total Care, Clover Health , Absolute Total Care (NEIC), Blue Choice Medicaid, First Choice/Select Health (NEIC), Molina Healthcare , WellCare, Absolute Total Care Healthy Connections Prime Dual Medicare/Medicaid Plan , First Choice VIP Care Plus Healthy Connections Prime Dual Medicare/Medicaid Plan, Molina Healthy Connections Prime Dual Medicare/Medicaid Plan
Degrees Medical Doctor, Physician Assistant
Office Name MUSC Health Rutledge Tower
Languages English
Services Edward Kantor practices psychiatry at 135 Rutledge Avenue, Charleston, SC 29425. Psychiatrists are licensed physicians who specialize in the evaluation, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of mental and emotional disorders.

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