Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine

	Welcome to our website Here you can become acquainted with our faculty, their particular interests and become acquainted with our current residents. You will also find descriptions of our clinical services, residency program, medical student clerkship and specialty programs.
W. Vaughn McCall, MD, MS  Chair, Professor, Medical Director of Sleep Center

  

Resident Life

Director's Welcome   

James N. Kimball, MD Assistant Professor, Director of Psychiatry Residency Training Program

 Thank you for your interest in the General Psychiatry Residency Program, the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine of Wake Forest School of Medicine. Accredited in 1950 as Bowman Gray Department of Psychiatry, the Wake Forest Residency Training Program has a long history of balanced training in Biologic Psychiatry and Psychotherapy. Our graduates are represented in areas of practice that include Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Forensic Psychiatry, Psychosomatic Medicine and Geriatric Psychiatry. Many of our residents have elected to take their Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowships in our Department's program.   more »     

 

Message from the Chief Residents

Aaron Albert, MD Chief Resident

Welcome to the Wake Forest University general psychiatry training program! We are honored to be the co-chief residents for 2011-2012 and would like to provide you with a closer look at our residency training program, especially from a resident perspective.

During the first year of residency training, interns complete six months of adult inpatient psychiatry on the adult inpatient unit at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center (WFBMC), and six months of off-service work (two months of outpatient neurology at WFBMC, two months of outpatient general medicine at the VA medical center in Salisbury, one month of outpatient pediatrics at a local hospital-run satellite clinic and one month of emergency medicine at WFBMC). more »   

Psychiatry Residency Program Overview Video

This video is a two part series providing an introduction to the Psychiatry Residency Program at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston Salem, North Carolina.
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Residency Training News

The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine proudly announces their newest residents for the Adult Psychiatry Residency Program and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship Program.

Psychiatry Residency Program Newest Residents

Tiffani Bell, MD from Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine
Xavier Belcher, MD Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine
Lee Bourgeois, MD from Ross University School of Medicine
Patrick Harmon, MD from the Medical University of South Carolina 
Richard Jackson, MD from Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Ryan McQueen, MD from Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine
Sandarsh Surya, MBBS from Kempegowda Institute of Medical Sciences
David Tatum, DO from Touro University College of Osteopathic Medicine

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship Program
Debbie Davis, MD from Saba University School of Medicine
Tara Ferren, MD from Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Shahzad Ali, MBBS from King Edward Medical College 

Faculty & Research News

Dr. Vaughn McCall was presented with the Hargrove Award by the North Carolina Psychiatric Association at it’s annual meeting in in September 2009. The Hargrove Award is presented annually to a North Carolina psychiatrist who has made a contribution to psychiatric research. This is the first time in nearly a 30 year history of the award that it was presented to a faculty member of Wake Forest School of Medicine.

         Dr. Vaughn McCall, Professor and Chairman, and Dr. Peter Rosenquist, Associate Professor, participated in a longitudinal study to determine the efficacy of continuing antidepressant medication along with the administration of Electroconvulsive Therapy. The results were published in the Archives of General Psychiatry, July 2009.

 

Donald Peters, MD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, was awarded the "Loretta Y. Silvia Teaching Award" for clinical excellence, courage and compassion at the annual resident graduation dinner dance on Saturday evening, May 30, 2009. This annual award voted on and presented by the residents honors the memory of Dr. Silvia, a loved and respected member of the faculty for 17 years. 

 

Gretchen Brenes, PhD recent publications:

Insomnia in older adults with Generalized Anxiety Disorder. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 17, 465-472. Brenes, G.A., Miller, M.E., Stanley, M.A., Williamson, J.D., Knudson, M., & McCall, W.V. (2009).

Racial differences in self-rated health at similar levels of physical functioning: An examination of health pessimism in the Health, Aging and Body Composition Study. Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, 64, 87-94. Spencer, S.M., Schulz, R., Rooks, R.N., Albert, S.M., Thorpe, R.J., Brenes, G.A., Harris, T.B., Koster, A., Satterfield, S., Ayonayon, H.N., & Newman, A. B. (2009)

Feasibility and acceptability of bibliotherapy and telephone sessions for the treatment of late-life anxiety disorders. Clinical Gerontologist. Brenes, G.A., McCall, V.M., Williamson, J.D., & Stanley, M.A. (In press).

Obesity and onset of significant depressive symptoms: Results from a community-based cohort of older men and women. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. Vogelzangs, N., Kritchevsky, S.B., Beekman, A.T.F., Brenes, G.A., Newman, A.B., Satterfield, S., Yaffe, K., Harris, T.B., & Penninx, B.W.J.H. (In press).

 

Dr. Burton Reifler was named the first Kate Mills Snider Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine. This Professorship is supported through the Geriatric Psychiatry Outreach (GO) Program, made possible by a generous gift from the Snider family in honor of their mother, Kate Mills Snider. The GO Program provides geriatric psychiatry housecalls for older persons with mobility limitations.  

 

  The website of the American Hospital Association has featured a story on the Geriatric Outreach Program, "Meeting the Mental Health Needs of the Elderly Homebound through a Geriatric Psychiatry Outreach Program Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC." The article details the difficulties of many elderly patients getting to a health care setting to receive treatment due to frailty, disability, physical illness, or psychiatric illness. To meet the needs of these patients, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center established an outreach program for the frail elderly who need psychiatric services in their homes." Read the story to see how the Geriatric Outreach Program helps to meet the needs of the homebound elderly.

 

  The American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry (AAGP) has created a new AAGP Deirdre Johnston Award for Excellence and Innovation in Geriatric Mental Health Outreach Services to encourage programs to provide and/or expand services for meeting the mental health needs of the frail elderly in their homes. The association will grant $10,000 to a program based on its excellence and/or innovation in providing mental health services to older adults in the community.

This annual award is made possible by a generous gift from Arnold H. Snider to the Geriatric Mental Health Foundation, which with the association oversees the award. This award is named in honor of geriatric psychiatrist Deirdre Johnston, MBChB, MRCPsych, in gratitude for the care she provided to Kate Mills Snider, Mr. Snider’s mother. Mr. Snider and his wife, Katherine, have endowed the Kate Mills Snider Geropsychiatry Outreach Program and Professorship Fund within the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. View press release.

Deirdre Johnston MB BCh BAO MRCPsych was formerly a member of the Wake Forest School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, now with Johns Hopkins University.