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Department of Psychiatry
Psychiatry Resident and Faculty Profiles
Residents & Fellows
Faculty
Class Photos
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Second Year Residents |
Third Year Residents |
Fourth Year Residents |
Residents and Fellows
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Jeska Albuisson, MD
Univesity of Colorado Denver, 2008 |
Integrated Track |
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Melissa Batt, MD
University of Texas Health Science Center of San Antonio, 2008 |
Integrated Track |
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Heather Brooks, MD
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, 2008 |
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Beau Carubia, MD
University of Colorado Denver, 2008 |
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Adam Coles, MD
University of Colorado Denver, 2008 |
Integrated Track |
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Milind Gadgil, MD
University of Kansas, 2008 |
Integrated Track |
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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 |
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Abby Ornelas Lozano, MD
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, 2008 |
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Hy Gia Park, MD
University of Hawaii, 2008 |
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Joseph Schuermeyer, MD
University of Toledo, 2008 |
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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-II |
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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 |
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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: OCD, eating disorders, addiction, 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 |
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Asa Marokus, MD
University of Colorado Denver, 2007 |
Interests: psychodynamic psychotherapy, teaching |
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Sanh Nguyen, DO
Touro University California, College of Osteopathic Medicine, 2007 |
Interests: child/adolescent psychiatry |
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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 |
PGY-III |
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John Chardavoyne, MD
State University of New York at Syracuse, 2006 |
Resident/Fellowship subcommittee member of American Society for Clinical Psychopharmacology
Interests: psychodynamic psychotherapy, psychopharmacology |
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Kim Conger, MD
University of California, Davis, 2006 |
Interests: medicine-psychiatry interface, C-L psychiatry |
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Anthony Cordaro, MD
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, 2006 |
Integrated Track
Interests: research, chronic cardiac 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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Lyn Greer, M.D.
Wright State University, 2005 |
Interests: outpatient psychiatry, psychotherapy, emergency psychiatry |
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Elizabeth Lowdermilk, MD
University of Colorado Denver, 2006 |
Career Program Track
Gold Award for Humanism and Excellence in Teaching 2008
Interests: public/community psychiatry, women’s health |
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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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Elishia Oliva, MD
University of Colorado Denver, 2005 |
Interests: child/adolescent psychiatry
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A Denver native, Dr. Elishia Oliva felt compelled to apply for residency at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center for a myriad of reasons outside of her love for her home city. She met her husband at UCHSC’s medical school and knew he planned on pursuing his training in Denver, her mother worked for the University - so that brought about a strong connection for her, but most of all, she felt inspired by the faculty in the psychiatry department.
In medical school, Dr. Oliva met and spent time with Dr. Debbie Carter at University of Colorado Hospital Outpatient Psychiatry Service in the child and adolescent clinic. Dr. Carter, the Director of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship, interacted with patients and their families on a level that Dr. Oliva had never witnessed. The impact and rapport Dr. Carter had in her daily practice with people awoke in Dr. Oliva a passion that pointed her in one direction; a residency at UCHSC as a training psychiatrist.
Under the career guidance of Dr. Carter, Dr. Oliva began her residency in the integrated child/adolescent research track. This program essentially integrates child and adolescent time with research opportunities throughout the course of the training. There are typically two to three residents a year on this course, and after her experience with Dr. Carter, Dr. Oliva knew this training would best support her needs and expectations of the program.
As a second year resident, Dr. Oliva has recently spent five months at the Children's Hospital, both on the inpatient psychiatry units for adolescents and children, as well as on the consultation service. Both of these experiences have reaffirmed her career goal. In just over a year she plans to enter the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship where she will continue working with her mentor, Dr. Carter, and pursuing her goals in medicine.
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Linda Power, MD
Drexel University College of Medicine, 2006 |
Interests: outpatient psychiatry, psychotherapy, CBT, anxiety disorders |
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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 |
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Abby Snavely, MD
University of Kansas, 2006 |
Interests: academic psychiatry/teaching, geriatric psychiatry, administration |
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Tom Starkey, MD
University of Colorado Denver, 2006 |
Interests: outpatient psychiatry, adolescent addiction 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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PGY-IV |
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Jonathan Boyer, MD
University of Colorado Denver, 2005 |
Chief Resident, Denver Health Medical Center Inpatient & C-L
Interests: forensic psychiatry, neuropsychiatry, C-L, psychopharmacology
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By his second year of residency, Dr. Jonathan Boyer had already experienced several highlights in his training at University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. Working with Dr. David Weiss at Denver Health Medical Center was one of the most rewarding. Dr. Boyer first worked with Dr. Weiss on the inpatient psychiatry service at Denver Health, and he quickly recognized Dr. Weiss’ outstanding clinical skills as a model he would like to one day emulate.
They also established a mentoring relationship, and Dr. Boyer was given the opportunity to publish as first author on a paper he wrote with Dr. Weiss. The paper explored Factitious and Conversion disorders in neurological patients, citing examples where pseudoseizures and psychogenic movement disorders played a part in these cases.
Dr. Boyer always knew he wanted to train in a well-balanced program that provides a diversity of patients, faculty, therapeutic modalities, and opportunities for specialized training. All of these have helped direct his interests toward forensic psychiatry and neuropsychiatry. With both parents active in the legal system, Dr. Boyer’s pursuit of forensic psychiatry is not too surprising. He was recently able to testify in court and become certified as an expert witness, which further fueled his interest in this career specialty. As for neuropsychiatry, Dr. Boyer has always had an interest in combining the fields of neurology and psychiatry, given their tremendous overlap. He credits the UCHSC psychiatry residency for his development of these two passions, and he currently plans to pursue fellowships in both forensics and neuropsychiatry.
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Brenda Czaban, MD
Stanford University, 2005 |
Chief Resident, Veterans’ Administration Medical Center
Interests: psychodynamic psychotherapy |
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Rachel Davis, MD
University of Colorado Denver, 2005 |
Chief Resident, Denver Health Medical Center Inpatient & Emergency
- APA Committee of Residents and Fellows District 7 Representative
- APA Ethics Committee
- Colorado Psychiatric Society Member-in-Training Representative
- Gold Award for Humanism and Excellence in Teaching 2006
Interests: academic psychiatry/teaching, ethics, psychotherapy, rural health |
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Doug Massey, MD
Eastern Virginia Medical School, 1998 |
Chief Resident, University of Colorado Hospital Inpatient & C-L
Interests: academic psychiatry/teaching, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy |
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Julia Maximon, MD
University of Colorado Denver, 2005 |
Chief Resident, Denver Health Medical Center Outpatient
Interests: bipolar disorder in children and adolescents
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In her fourth year of medical school at University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Dr. Julia Maximon became acquainted with Dr. Carol Beresford. Dr. Beresford, an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, invited her student to join a research project at the Schizophrenia Research Center.
Dr. Maximon observed a unique style and approach to clinical research and found herself really enjoying the experience. The excellent clinical experience received in her training thus far combined with her interest in Dr. Beresford's questions about affective disorders in young children appealed to Dr. Maximon. She decided to continue with the project, and hence, became a resident in the psychiatry program at UCHSC.
As second year resident, Dr. Maximon continued the work initiated by Dr. Carol Beresford on mood disorders in children aged three to five. This work includes administering a structured diagnostic interview, using story stems to evaluate content and affect, and then following the children longitudinally to see what happens and if making a specific diagnosis at such a young age impacts outcome. Dr. Maximon’s research is truly defined by her interests, and while her highest priority is developing superior clinical skills, she hopes her work will also lead to answers that will make a difference in the lives of many.
Dr. Julia Maximon plans to strike a balance between clinical work and continuing to pursue research questions. The program dynamics, inspirational mentoring, and diversity of opportunities have convinced her that UCHSC is the perfect place to continue her development as a psychiatrist. The training program is encouraging of research and has given Dr. Maximon the exposure to research and child psychiatry at a point early enough in her residency to shape her future course.
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Jennifer Rucci, MD
Eastern Virginia Medical School, 2005 |
Chief Resident, University of Colorado Hospital Outpatient
Interests: psychotherapy, geriatric psychiatry, teaching, administration |
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Ethan Swift, MD
University of Colorado Denver, 2005 |
Chief Resident, University of Colorado Hospital Inpatient & C-L
Interests: academic psychiatry/teaching, psychotherapy |
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Cynthia Wang, MD
Stanford University, 2005 |
Chief Resident, Veterans’ Administration Medical Center
Interests: older adolescents and young adults in transition, student mental health, cross-cultural psychiatry research |
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Carmen Haley, MD
Michigan State University, 2005 |
In Dr. Carmen Haley’s second year of her psychiatry residency at the University of Colorado Denver she learned one very important lesson early on. More...
It happened on her inpatient service at University of Colorado Hospital. Dr. Haley was faced with a very challenging case while working side by side with Dr. Cheryl Chessick, the Director of Inpatient Psychiatric Services at UCH. The police had picked up a young man sitting on the side of the road who could not speak. Dr. Chessick walked Dr. Haley through the process of interviewing a person with impaired communications, modeling for her how to establish a therapeutic alliance. After treatment with antipsychotic medications, the patient gradually began talking more, and after evaluating him for several days, the team educated him on his diagnosis of schizophrenia and the importance of his medications and other treatments. Dr. Haley realized that while psychiatrists can’t always offer a cure, treating patients respectfully and offering treatments that promote recovery and hopefulness are crucial to persons with severe mental illnesses.
In her second year of residency, Dr. Haley continued to look to Dr. Chessick for inspiration and support. Dr. Chessick emphasizes evidence-based medicine in the treatment of her patients, and she also integrates many different psychotherapy techniques. Dr. Haley felt especially privileged to receive an introduction to Dialectical Behavioral Therapy from someone as highly trained and knowledgeable as Dr. Chessick.
Dr. Haley has realized there is a diverse and challenging patient population at UCHSC and abundant support and mentoring from the attending psychiatrists. She has begun the advanced residency program in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry because of her experience on her child and adolescent rotations as well as the faculty she has worked with in these settings, and ultimately plans to pursue a practice in a setting which combines treating patients and teaching. Less...
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Benjamin Lipman, DO
Des Moines Univ-Osteopathic Med. Ctr, IA, 2005 |
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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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Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - 2nd Year |
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Pamela Horne, MD
National University of Ireland, Dublin, 2004 |
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Jonathan Kusumi, MD
University of Colorado Denver, 2004 |
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Ronald Morley, MD
University of Colorado Denver, 2004 |
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Michael Mullin, MD
University of California, San Diego, 2004 |
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Elise Sannar, MD
University of Chicago, 2002 |
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Addiction Fellow |
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Charles Shuman, M.D.
Temple University, PA, 2000 |
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Forensic Fellows |
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Thomas Hoffman, MD
University of Washington, 2003 |
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Aaron Meng, MD
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, 2003 |
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Faculty
Dr. Dan Abrams, Faculty
 Combining cutting-edge research with patient care is a dream for many doctors, but it exists as a reality for Dr. Dan Abrams, an Associate Clinical Professor in Psychiatry and Neurosurgery, who recently completed his training in the University of Colorado Psychiatry residency program. Inspired by his past experiences in the neurosurgery, Dr. Abrams is now pushing deeper into diagnosis and treatment of patients with psychiatric and neurological diseases. He is currently involved in two research areas: The neurophysiologic basis of motor changes and new methods of drug delivery for CNS diseases.
With his mentor, Dr. Martin Reite, Dr. Abrams has developed his research focus on Tourette's disorder and schizophrenia. Dr. Abrams and his colleagues developed methods for testing the motor system using advanced magneto encephalography (MEG) neurophysiological techniques in the laboratory of Dr. Reite.
Dr. Abrams developed his second area of research in epilepsy and schizophrenia patients with Dr. Karen Stevens (Department of Psychiatry) and Dr. Tom Anchordoquy (School of Pharmacy). Thanks in part to the Coleman Foundation and the Proof of Concept State of Colorado Grant, they were awarded $235,000 for further study. Dr. Abrams directs research steps that include using programmable implanted pumps to deliver medication directly into the fluid around the brain. This and his other ongoing research projects are helping Dan to achieve his goal of combining research and clinical work in the neurosciences. He hopes that these endeavors will continue to inform each other.
While Dr. Abrams’ clinical neuroscience background has greatly aided his research exploration and development, he attributes much of his success in the laboratory to the creative genius and gifted mentoring of Dr. Martin Reite. His relationship with Dr. Reite and others in his clinical work combined with the meaningful research program he has worked to develop make UCHSC an ideal setting for developing a physician-scientist career. Dr. Abrams encourages others seeking to develop a meaningful research program to explore the many options in the UCHSC Psychiatric department.
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 Health Sciences Center (UCHSC), 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 UCHSC. 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 Assistant Professor in the department, 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 UCHSC program: clinical psychiatry, research, education, and professional guidance and development.
Dr. Robert Feinstein, Faculty
 Robert E. Feinstein, M.D. is currently Vice Chairman of Clinical Education and Evidence Based Medicine Integration in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. He is also the Practice Director of University Hospital Psychiatric Outpatient Department 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 UCHSC, one of her favorite roles and main sources of inspiration and motivation is helping residents to become excellent psychiatrists.
Dr. Olincy came to UCHSC 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 UCHSC. 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 UCHSC program. She works with residents both in and out of the laboratory and says that working with them keeps her sharp. Through teaching at UCHSC, 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.
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