Application and Contact Information
Letter from Program Director
Georgetown University Hospital and Adventist Behavioral Health partnered with the twin goals of providing excellent education and training in the field and enhancing and expanding the delivery of child and adolescent services to the children and families in the Greater Washington, DC Metropolitan Area.
Our Child & Adolescent Residency Training Program utilizes the resources of both organizations to ensure a comprehensive educational program. In their first year, residents follow patients on both the child and adolescent inpatient and partial hospitalization programs and gain experience in treating acutely ill children and adolescents as part of a multidisciplinary team. Residents also have an opportunity to treat more chronically ill patients on the residential unit. During their consultation/liaison rotation residents provide psychiatric consultation to medically ill patients and work in sub-specialty clinics including eating disorders, psycho-oncology, developmental pediatrics, autism and normal development. Their first year of training will also mark the beginning of their long term psychotherapy and medication management outpatient work at both Georgetown University Hospital and the Reginald S. Lourie Center for Infants and Young Children.
In their second year of training, the residents have a rich school consultation experience which will include rotations at the Lourie Center's therapeutic nursery and non public elementary school, Adventist Behavioral Health's non-public high school - The Ridge School, and schools that have specialized educational programs for learning disorders, developmental disabilities and autism spectrum disorders - The Katherine Thomas School, Kennedy Krieger Montgomery County School Program and Ivymount respectively. Residents also have the opportunity to have a comprehensive forensic psychiatry rotation, co-lead intensive outpatient Adolescent Chemical Dependency groups, and be a team member of both our After School and Head Start Program at the Lourie Center.
These above mentioned educational experiences are be led by our Georgetown University Child & Adolescent core faculty which includes Matthew Biel, MD, , James Herrera, MD, Yasmin Jilla, MD, Avram Mack, MD, Wale Popoola, MD, Michelle Seelman, MD and Robyn Wechsler, MD. These core faculty members have a range of expertise in areas such as Infancy and Early Childhood Development, Forensic Psychiatry, Psychosomatic Medicine, Mood and Anxiety Disorders, Adoption and Foster Care, and School Consultation. In addition to the core faculty, our longstanding volunteer faculty brings years of dedication and expertise to the field of Child and Adolescent psychiatry in general and Georgetown University Hospital Department of Psychiatry in particular and will be instrumental in our Residency Training Program.
Georgetown University Hospital Department of Psychiatry has a long history of providing comprehensive programs in clinical patient care, education, research and community outreach. The Department of Psychiatry provides both adult inpatient and partial hospitalization care and has multiple specialty programs in their outpatient division that includes Chemical Dependence, Psychosomatic Medicine, Geriatric , Child/Adolescent and Forensic Psychiatry. The Department also offers residency and fellowship training in Adult Psychiatry, Psychosomatic Medicine, and Forensic Psychiatry.
Adventist Behavioral Health is a comprehensive behavioral health provider of the Adventist Healthcare System with locations in several different counties in the state of Maryland, including Washington Adventist Hospital's Behavioral Health Unit and the Reginald S. Lourie Center for Infants and Young Children. The organization offers a broad range of behavioral health programs and services for young children, adolescents, adults and senior citizens including inpatient and partial hospitalization, intensive outpatient chemical dependency program, residential treatment, and non-public school educational services.
For program information, please do not hesitate to contact me at lcullins@adventisthealthcare.com.
Sincerely,
Lisa M. Cullins, MD
Program Director,
Georgetown University Hospital/Adventist Behavioral Health -
Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Residency Training Program
Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Georgetown University School of Medicine
Director,
Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Adventist Behavioral Health - Rockville
