Meet Our Doctors
Dr. William Becker, M.D.
Dr. William Becker is Board-Certified in both Child & Adolescent Psychiatry and in Adult Psychiatry. He graduated from Harvard College Cum Laude and went to medical school at Tel Aviv University, where he graduated first in his class.
Dr. Becker did his Adult Residency at Long Island Jewish/Hillside Hospital. He completed his child and adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship at Cornell University Medical Center/The New York Hospital.After completing his Fellowship, he became a faculty member at Cornell University Medical Center/The New York Hospital, where he was Director of the Psychiatric Crisis Intervention Service.
He has been in full time private practice in Northern New Jersey for over 20 years.
Dr. Nina Sugar, M.D.
Nina S. Sugar, M.D., is Board-Certified in Child and Adolescent and Adult Psychiatry. She is licensed in NY and NJ and has been in private practice for over 20 years.
After graduating from Colgate University in 1981 with an interdepartmental major in psychology-biology, Dr. Sugar was a co-teacher at Rodeph Shalom Nursery School in NYC. She also volunteered to counsel adolescents at the Young Adult Clinic at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center. Prior to attending medical school, she worked in basic genetics research and pulmonary clinical care at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center.
After graduating from Sackler School of Medicine at Tel Aviv University, Israel, in 1988, Dr. Sugar went on to complete her internship and residency in General Psychiatry at Hillside Hospital, Long Island Jewish Medical Center, and Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She continued her training with a 2-year sub-specialty fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Payne Whitney Clinic-New York Hospital, Cornell University Medical Center. She was assistant clinical director of the Therapeutic Nursery for children with Autism in her 2nd year of fellowship.
After fellowship, Dr. Sugar was fortunate to be a full-time parent for several years.
In 1999, she started a solo private practice in Ridgewood, New Jersey. From 2011 to 2015, she was a unit chief/attending physician on the adolescent inpatient unit at NYC Children’s Center-Bronx Campus (fka Bronx Children’s Psychiatric Center).
After leaving Bronx Children’s Psychiatric Center, she joined Psychiatric Consultants of Morris, 261 James Street, Morristown, NJ, from 2015 to 2019.
In December 2019, Dr. Sugar and her husband, Dr. William D. Becker, opened a private practice office together.
Dr. Sugar is incredibly grateful to all her patients and their families for allowing her to care for them over the years.