#AlumniProfile #NYIT For Domenick Sportelli (D.O. ’09), being featured as a guest on the CBS show The Doctors is a natural extension of his early career. “I grew up in front of the camera. When I was young, I modeled and acted in commercials and a few movies,” he says. Now a board-certified physician in adult and child psychiatry, Sportelli runs the New Jersey Center for Advanced Psychiatry and Behavioral Health. He believes that promoting mental health awareness is essential. “I want to help people know they can be treated for mental health and to decrease the stigma of mental illness,” he says. “It’s very misunderstood.” Sportelli says that the Doctor Patient Continuum program (DPC) at NYIT College of Osteopathic Medicine (NYITCOM) helped shape him as a physician. “From the very beginning, the college created an incredible passion in me to understand, to further question, and to look at the big picture. It made all the difference in my training and who I am as a doctor and how I app...