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Department of Psychiatry
Psychiatry Resident and Faculty Profiles
Residents & Fellows
Faculty
Class Photos
PGY-1 Residents |
PGY-2 Residents |
PGY-3 Residents |
PGY-4 Residents |
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Residents |
Addition Psychiatry Fellows and Director |
Forensic Psychiatry Fellows and Director |
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Residents and Fellows
PGY-1 |
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Lisa Brand-Gardner, MD
University of Colorado Denver, 2009 |
Child Interest Track |
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Elizabeth Calvin, MD
Baylor College of Medicine, 2009 |
Integrated Track |
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Brian Haigh, MD
Tulane University, 2009 |
Child Interest Track |
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Daniel Hochman, MD
University of Texas Medical Branch, 2009 |
Interests: Obesity, eating disorders |
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Sarah Kuykendall, MD
University of Texas Southwestern, 2009 |
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Rupi Legha, MD
Harvard Medical School, 2009 |
Child Interest Track |
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TJ Pavey, MD
University of Minnesota, 2009 |
Child Interest Track |
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Nikhil Rao, MD
University of Oklahoma, 2009 |
Integrated Track |
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Jason Rodriguez, MD
Univeristy of Illinois, 2009 |
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Marissa Schiel, MD, PhD
Indiana University, 2009 |
Integrated Track |
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Emily Sheldon, MD
Medical College of Georgia, 2008 |
Child Interest Track |
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Donna Vishnevetsky, MD
Thomas Jefferson University, 2000 |
Integrated Track |
PGY-2 |
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Melissa Batt, MD
University of Texas Health Science Center of San Antonio, 2008 |
Integrated Track, child/adolescent psychiatry research |
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Heather Brooks, MD
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, 2008 |
Interests: Forensic Psychiatry |
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Beau Carubia, MD
University of Colorado Denver, 2008 |
child Interest Track |
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Adam Coles, MD
University of Colorado Denver, 2008 |
Integrated Track |
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Jodie Coombs, MD
University of Colorado Denver, 2008 |
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Milind Gadgil, MD
University of Kansas, 2008 |
Integrated Track
Member-in-Training representative to Colorado Psychiatric Society Executive Council |
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Kurt Humphrey, MD
University of Colorado Denver, 2008 |
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Colleen McGuire, DO
Touro University California, College of Osteopathic Medicine, 2008 |
Interests: Child/adolescent psychiatry |
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Abby Lozano, MD
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, 2008 |
Interests: Adult psychiatry |
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Hy Gia Park, MD
University of Hawaii, 2008 |
Interests: Neuropsychiatry, adult psychiatry |
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Joseph Schuermeyer, MD
University of Toledo, 2008 |
Interests: Psychotherapy, adult psychiatry |
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Genevieve Yancey, MD
Medical University of South Carolina, 2008 |
I’ve been interested in psychiatry since early adolescence, and my first desire for residency is to explore the discipline. Although ultimately I’m interested in an academic career, during my training years, I want a balanced education to the forms of therapy and pharmacologic approaches to patient treatment. I came to Colorado to make myself a specialist within Psychiatry, but one built from the ground up. I think this will make me not only a better teacher, but a better learner with a broader array of questions. Also important, however, will be my clinical research experience with the mentorship here. Not only will it foster proactive thinking, but it will prepare me for my future career. |
PGY-3 |
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Galia Abadi, MD
University of Colorado Denver, 2007 |
Interests: psychodynamic psychotherapy, psychoanalysis |
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Adam Burstein, DO
New York Institute of Technology, College of Osteopathic Medicine, 2007 |
Interests: child/adolescent psychiatry, families, preventive psychiatry
Member-in-Training representative to Colorado Psychiatric Society Executive Council |
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Patrick Fehling, MD
University of Wisconsin, 2007 |
Interests: adult psychiatry, forensic psychiatry |
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Ergi Gumusaneli, MD
University of California, Irvine, 2007 |
Interests: Forensics, academics/teaching |
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Hon Ho, MD
Oregon Health Sciences University School of Medicine, 2007
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Integrated Track
Interests: child and adolescent psychiatry, research, cannabis use and depression, pathological gambling among adolescents & young adults
2009 APA/Janssen Scholar
2009 AACAP Educational Outreach Program recipient |
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Asa Marokus, MD
University of Colorado Denver, 2007 |
Interests: psychodynamic psychotherapy, teaching, adolescent psychiatry, telepsychiatry, veterans psychiatry, substance use |
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Sanh Nguyen, DO
Touro University California, College of Osteopathic Medicine, 2007 |
Interests: child/adolescent psychiatry, psychotherapy |
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Erinn Stauter, MD
University of Colorado Denver, 2007 |
Interests: addiction psychiatry, anxiety/depression, personality disorders |
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Gila Steinbock, M.D.
Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel, 2000 |
Interests: child/adolescent psychiatry |
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Jessica Stern, MD
Ohio State University College of Medicine, 2007 |
Integrated Track
Interests: research, child and adolescent psychiatry, adolescents with conduct, mood, and addiction co-morbidity |
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Melissa Wilkes, MD
University of Texas Medical School at Houston, 2007 |
Interests: women’s mental health, pregnancy, psychopharmacology |
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David Williams, MD
Ohio State University College of Medicine, 2007 |
Interests: outpatient psychotherapy, neurosis and personality disorders, teaching, administrative psychiatry
2009 AACAP Educational Outreach Program recipient |
PGY-4 |
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John Chardavoyne, MD
State University of New York at Syracuse, 2006
Cross Cultural Psychiatry in
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Resident/Fellowship subcommittee member of American Society for Clinical Psychopharmacology
Interests: psychodynamic psychotherapy, psychopharmacology
Chief Resident 2009-10: VAMC Outpatient Psychiatry |
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Kim Conger, MD
University of California, Davis, 2006 |
Interests: medicine-psychiatry interface, C-L psychiatry, addiction, therapy, neuropsychiatry, multi specialty approaches. |
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Beau Fleming , M.D.
Louisiana State University, 2005 |
Interests: Public psychiatry
Chief Resident 2009-10: DHMC Inpatient Psychiatry |
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Lyn Greer, M.D.
Wright State University, 2005 |
Interests: outpatient psychiatry, psychotherapy, emergency psychiatry, C-L psychiatry
Chief Resident 2009-10: UCH C-L and emergency Psychiatry
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Elishia Oliva, MD
University of Colorado Denver, 2005 |
Interests: Women's health, student mental health
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Linda Power, MD
Drexel University College of Medicine, 2006 |
Interests: Community mental health, working with veterans, psychopharmacology
Chief Resident 2009-10: VAMC Inpatient Psychiatry |
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Abby Snavely, MD
University of Kansas, 2006 |
Interests: academic psychiatry/teaching, geriatric psychiatry, administration, personality disorders
Journal Watch Psychiatry Residency Advisory Group
Chief Resident 2009-10: UCH Outpatient Psychiatry |
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Narin Wongngamnit, MD
Indiana University, 2006 |
APIRE/Janssen Resident Psychiatric Research Scholar 2008-09
Research track
Interests: research, pain medicine
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Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - 1st Year |
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Anthony Cordaro, MD
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, 2006 |
Integrated Track
Interests: research, chronic disease and mental health in children and adolescents |
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Audrey Dumas, MD
Tulane University School of Medicine, 2006 |
Interests: infant and child psychiatry, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy |
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Katherine Keeton, DO
Des Moines University, Osteopathic Medical Center, 2001 |
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Scot McKay, MD
Medical University of South Carolina, 2006 |
Interests: child/adolescent psychiatry, young adults in transition, student mental health |
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Michael Rollin, MD
University of Colorado Denver, 2006 |
APIRE/Janssen Resident Psychiatric Research Scholar 2008-09
Integrated Track
Interests: research, sensory and cognitive processing, child/adolescent psychiatry |
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - 2nd Year
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Carmen Haley, MD
Michigan State University, 2005 |
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Benjamin Lipman, DO
Des Moines Univ-Osteopathic Med. Ctr, IA, 2005 |
Interests: Adolescent psychiatry, outpatient psychiatry |
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Charlie Lippolis, DO
UNTHSC-Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine, 2005 |
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Abdul Mateen, MD
Dow Medical College, Karachi, Pakistan, 1984 |
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Addiction Psychiatry Fellows |
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Elizabeth Foote, MD
University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, 2002 |
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Robert Long, MD
University of Colorado Denver, 2004 |
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Forensic Psychiatry Fellows |
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Jonathan Boyer, MD
University of Colorado Denver, 2005 |
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Andrew Foote, MD
University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, 2005 |
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Faculty
Dr. Laura Martin, Faculty
 The creative juices that fuel innovative directions in schizophrenia research do not occur in a vacuum. Dr. Laura Martin, a Psychiatrist at the University of Colorado Denver (UCD), balances life in the lab by sharing precious time with her two children and escaping into fantasies of opening her own winery. Her ability to maintain focus amidst so many priorities is admirable; however, Dr. Martin attributes her success to the many opportunities she has been allowed to explore, as well as the amazing mentors found within her program.
The strength of research is just one aspect of the Psychiatry program that attracted Dr. Martin to UCD. Her ability to incorporate clinical work, teaching, and research both in residency and as faculty have provided Dr. Martin with the professional diversity she was searching for. In an attempt to avoid the ‘one track’ residency, Dr. Martin found a program with an associated psychoanalytic institute that would provide teaching and supervision for psychodynamic therapy to balance the increasing focus of many training programs on pharmacotherapy. She currently serves as Associate Program Director, overseeing the PGY-2 year, supervising residents and teaching Advanced Psychopharmacology.
In Dr. Martin’s senior year she completed a project geared toward identifying possible physiological deficits present in persons with psychotic mania when they were not acutely ill. As a result, she gathered and analyzed enough data for three manuscripts (two of which have been published in the American Journal of Psychiatry and the American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics). She was also awarded an American Psychiatric Association resident research award, a travel award to the annual Biological Psychiatry meeting, and a competitive research fellowship from the Department of Veterans Affairs, esteemed accomplishments in any career. Dr. Martin’s current research is focusing on the physiological deficits in persons with schizophrenia. Given her findings that nicotine has been shown to reverse some of these deficits, this biological system has become her major area of focus.
Providing assistance and inspiration to Dr. Martin are Dr. Ann Olincy and Dr. Robert Freedman. Both psychiatrists embody an impressive psychiatric and basic science knowledge base, excellent communication skills, genuine concern and respect for their students, outstanding clinical skills and service to the academic and general community, making each a model mentor. It is this distinguished mentorship, along with Dr. Laura Martin’s experience that exemplifies the strengths of the UCD program: clinical psychiatry, research, education, and professional guidance and development.
Dr. Robert Feinstein, Faculty
 Robert E. Feinstein, M.D. is currently Professor and Vice Chairman of Clinical Education and Evidence Based Medicine Integration in the department of Psychiatry of Psychiatry, and Senior Associate Dean of Education for the
University of Colorado Denver, School of Medicine. He is also the Practice Director University of Colorado Hospital Psychiatric Outpatient Department.
Vice Chairman of Clinical Education and Evidence Based Medicine Integration in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado Denver. He is also the Practice Director of University Hospital Psychiatric Outpatient at North Pavilion.
Dr Feinstein has spent his entire career in academic medical education, clinical care of patients, clinically oriented research, while holding high-level administrative and educational positions in New York and Connecticut. Previously, he has been a faculty member Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and New York Medical College.
Dr. Feinstein is a adult & adolescent psychiatrist, pharmacologist, and psychoanalyst, who specializes in multiple forms of psychotherapies combined with biological treatments. He has worked many year in primary care sites, psychiatric emergency rooms, on a psychiatric research unit, as a site director of medical student education, director of behavioral medicine, director of New York Medical College Westchester Medical Center Psychiatric Residency Training Program. He has also be site director of psychiatric research at NYMC/WMC and was previously medical director of an outpatient psychiatric mental health company. Currently he has been heavily involved in medical informatics, implementation of system wide psychiatric electronic medical record, and evidence-based medicine teaching.
As an educator he has developed three different full curriculums: one for family practice residents, a wellness curriculum for patients, and a major revision for a psychiatric residency-training program. He has been teacher of the year 4 times, in three different educational setting. He has given over 1000 lectures to students and presents regularly at local, regional, and national meetings.
He is widely published in peer-reviewed journals and major textbooks focusing on primary care psychiatry and psychiatric aspects of cardiovascular diseases, wellness and lifestyle change, suicide and violence, and personality disorders. He is a former section editor for Behavioral Medicine in Heart Disease and is currently section editor of Complementary & Behavioral Medicine in Cardiology in Review. He has published one book entitled "Primary Care Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine: Brief Office Treatment and Management Pathways. Springer Publishing, New York, New York 1999.
Over the years he has been a funded educational researcher with several grants totaling approximately $600,000. His research interest include suicide and violence, prevention oriented primary care, primary care psychiatry and behavioral medicine, and psychiatric aspects of cardiovascular disease, evidence-based medicine, and psychotherapy.
Dr. Ann Olincy, Faculty
 While Dr. Ann Olincy wears many hats at UCD, one of her favorite roles and main sources of inspiration and motivation is helping residents to become excellent psychiatrists.
Dr. Olincy came to UCD from Mayo Medical School for her residency because of the diversity of the three hospitals, the size of the program (allowing for interaction with many people), and the location in beautiful Colorado. She stayed as she fell in love with Colorado, and began a research fellowship that got her hooked on academics and schizophrenia.
Dr. Olincy’s research has paved quite a path for her in the psychiatry program at UCD. Her pursuit of answers in this field stem from her role as clinician, working with families of schizophrenia and seeing firsthand the devastation this disease causes. As a researcher, Dr. Olincy has realized her job is not simply an academic exercise; it is the most promising way to improve her patient’s lives. It is this realization that has inspired her dedication in the lab. She is currently researching the genetics of schizophrenia. Dr. Olincy’s special interest regards the role of deficits in nicotinic receptors, and her lab is pursuing the possibility of using α-7 nicotinic agonists to enhance cognition in schizophrenia. She hopes to expand this research into cognitive deficits in bipolar disorder.
As an Associate Residency Director, Dr. Olincy aims to improve the residency track to better meet the needs of each psychiatrist in the UCD program. She works with residents both in and out of the laboratory and says that working with them keeps her sharp. Through teaching at UCD, Dr. Olincy is able to continually stay on top of the latest developments in psychiatry as residents present her with questions and new findings that she hasn’t yet heard; they provide more information than she would acquire by reading several psychiatry journals a week. Plus, working with residents allows her to see patients from a fresh perspective.
Some of the residents she works most closely with describe Dr. Olincy as not only a teacher, but a model of the many characteristics that are key to being a good clinical scientist: caring for the patients whose illness you seek to study, displaying a passion for the research you undertake, serving as a high ethical standard for the research performed, and demonstrating a meticulousness for detail.
It is clear that one of the most defined hats that Dr. Olincy sports in her department is that of an approachable mentor and colleague willing to assist anyone in their quest for answers in psychiatric wellness.
Dr. Chris Schneck, Faculty
 Christopher Schneck, MD, is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. He is currently the Director of Consultation Services at the University of Colorado Denver Depression Center, works in the outpatient division of the University of Colorado Hospital, and is an Associate Medical Director at Colorado Access (Colorado Medicaid).
Dr. Schneck received his undergraduate degree from Stanford University and his medical degree from the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center (UCHSC). He completed his Internal Medicine Internship, Psychiatric Residency training and Clinical Psychiatry Fellowship at the Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut. Dr. Schneck joined the UCD faculty in 1995 where he supervises and teaches both medical students and residents. He has received both local and national awards for his teaching.
Dr. Schneck's primary area of interest and research is in bipolar disorder, with a particular emphasis on rapid cycling bipolar disorder and adolescent bipolar disorder. He has given numerous lectures on the topic and is currently involved in two National Institute of Mental Health research studies-one examining the efficacy of Family Focused Treatment of adolescents with bipolar disorder, and one examining family focused treatment as early intervention in adolescents at risk for bipolar disorder. He has published in numerous journals, including The American Journal of Psychiatry, Archives of General Psychiatry, The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, The Journal of Affective Disorders, , Current Psychiatry and the Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology. In 2004 and 2005 he was recognized as one of Denver's "Top Doctors" in 5280, a local Denver magazine. |
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