Overview
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Residency Program
Emory University School of Medicine

Training Director Arden D. Dingle, MD (adingle@emory.edu)

Residency Coordinator Beth Adams (eaadams@emory.edu ; 404-7273886)
Please contact for program and application information

Division Chief     Peter Ash, MD

General Characteristics
• Two year residency program with strong clinical emphasis
• Significant clinical research opportunities
• Diverse full-time and voluntary faculty
• Multiple sites in metropolitan Atlanta
• Four residents per year, generally a mix of internal and outside applicants

Rotations
First Year (70% site; 30% outpatient clinic and didactics)

Children’s HealthCare of Atlanta at Egleston Children’s Hospital is a 3-month rotation on the consultation liaison service evaluating and treating children and adolescents with complicated medical and psychiatric conditions. Egleston is a tertiary care center that serves metropolitan Atlanta and other areas of the state and is a main training site for Emory pediatrics. The resident spends one afternoon a week in an outpatient neurology clinic.

Georgia Regional Hospital at Atlanta is a 3- month rotation on the adolescent (13 through 17) psychiatric unit. The hospital is a state facility for acute psychiatric care and serves metropolitan Atlanta and North Georgia.

Inner Harbour Hospital is a 3- month rotation at a non-profit, private institution that provides a range of services from residential treatment to outpatient care for adolescents. The residents work as members of multidisciplinary teams for several specialty programs such as substance abuse and sexual offenders.

Grady Health System is a 2-month rotation. One month is spent at a public, urban institution that runs a school based day treatment for psychiatrically ill adolescents and after school program for adolescent substance abusers. The residents evaluate and follow patients as well as providing consultation to the school staff. The second month is spent at a crisis intervention/ day treatment program for children and adolescents where the residents provide psychiatric assessments and care as well as participate in milieu activities.

Second Year (60% site and elective; 40% outpatient clinic and didactics)
This year consists of 11 months of required rotations and 1 month of electives but is organized into assignments of 2 to 12 months over the entire year rather than in block months.

Grady Health System is an 8- month full time equivalent (FTE) rotation. Grady is the county hospital for metropolitan Atlanta and a major training institution for Emory. Assignments include:
Child Psychiatry Clinic 1 afternoon/week for 12 months
Family Evaluation Clinic 1 morning/week for 2 months Forensics 1 afternoon/week for 4 months
1 morning/week for 2 months
Clinical Research 1 afternoon/week for 3 months
Elementary School Consultation 1 morning/week for 9 months
Juvenile Court Consultation 1 morning/week for 2 months
HeadStart Consultation 1 morning/week for 9 months
Community Consultation 1 afternoon/week for 1 month
Developmental Disabilities Clinic 1 morning/ week for 12 months

The Autism Center is a 1-month FTE rotation. The Autism Center provides services for children and adolescents with pervasive developmental disorders. Assignments include:
Outpatient Evaluations and Follow-up 1 afternoon/week for 4 months
School Outreach Program 1 morning/week for 1 month
Preschool Program 1 morning/week for 2 months

Barton Clinic is a 2 week FTE rotation working with the personnel of the law school to advocate for children, adolescents, and families

Crawford Long is 2.25-month FTE rotation working with infants, toddlers and families, in neonatal units and outpatient follow up services, participating in clinical assessments, care, and follow-up

Electives (4- 6 weeks FTE) have varied depending on resident interest and program availability. Recent electives include:
School Consultation
Forensics
Genetics
Liaison to Pediatric Clinics
Clinical Research
Outpatient Child Psychiatry
Administration
Adolescent Substance Abuse
Residential Treatment

Both Years
Outpatient Training Clinic is a sliding scale clinic operated at Emory for children, adolescents, and families. The emphasis is on long-term psychotherapeutic treatment. The residents do evaluations and ongoing therapy and receive individual supervision. Patient fees help support the secretary. The residents also co-lead a group at a local adolescent residential treatment center (Hillside). The requirements are:

Evaluations 6-9 a year
Patient Hours (includes group) 4 hours/week first year residents
6 hours/week second year residents
Supervision 1 hour/week first year residents
2 hours/week second year residents

Didactics
The curriculum includes both courses that occur every year and those that are given every other year. The majority of the classes are taught to the first and second year residents together.

Every Year
First and Second Year Residents
General Psychiatry Grand Rounds
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Grand Rounds
Conference with the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Grand Round Speaker
Research Seminar
Cultural Conference
Spiritual Conference
Journal Club
Psychopharmacology
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
Ethics
Outpatient Meeting
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Behavioral Management
Chief Resident Meeting
Training Director’s Meeting
Chat with the Chief
Resident Retreat
First Year Residents
Orientation
Assessment of children, adolescents, and families
Family Therapy Supervision (direct observation)
Second Year Residents
Family Therapy Seminar (didactics, supervision)
Career Preparation
Teaching
Alternative Medicine
Relaxation Training

Every Other Year
First and Second Year Residents
Developmental Practicum
Psychopathology and Therapeutics

Goals and Objectives
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Emory University School of Medicine

The child and adolescent psychiatry residency at Emory University School of Medicine is a two year program which has been designed to offer training composed of a well balanced mix of clinical experiences, formal didactics, and theoretical orientations. The emphasis is upon the acquisition of diagnostic, therapeutic, and consultation skills which can be applied across the developmental spectrum, based on current concepts of cognitive and biological growth, learning theory, psychoanalytic theory and family systems models. The diverse clinical rotations coupled with a core of didactic seminars and lectures provide each trainee with a balanced experience in theoretical models and practical applications as the resident functions as diagnostician, treating physician, therapist, team leaders, and consultant. During the two years of training, the resident develops an increasing competence in clinical abilities, teaching, research and administration through a series of graduated learning experiences. Each resident also receives close supervision from faculty members, which fosters professional development.

This residency has been organized to optimize continuous outpatient evaluations and treatments in conjunction with in depth clinical experiences. During both years, residents participate in a training clinic with weekly requirements of didactics, patient evaluations, long-term outpatient treatment, and individual supervision. In the first year, the residents rotate on several intensive level programs (child psychiatry, adolescent psychiatry, and medical/psychiatric), work on a pediatric consultation-liaison service, and participate in adolescent substance abuse evaluation and treatment. The second year has an outpatient focus; residents rotate at several sites over 9 to 12 months and work with specific populations such as the developmentally disabled, autistic, forensic, school based, neurological, and underprivileged as both clinicians and consultants. The residents also have 1 1/2 months of electives.

Residents have the opportunity to evaluate and treat children and adolescents over the developmental age range with a broad spectrum of diagnosis and treatment options in a variety of well-supervised settings. During the first year, the initial focus is on descriptive diagnosis, interviewing, biological interventions, psychodynamic understanding and treatment planning primarily within inpatient and consultation settings. Later, the second year, the emphasis is on consolidation of skills and extension to specific populations and settings. Throughout the program, residents are exposed to issues of teaching, research, and administration with varying levels of participation depending on the situation.

This program is conceptualized as part of an educational process which has included medical school and general psychiatry. Child and adolescent psychiatry builds and expands upon those experiences. The program provides a core of clinical and educational experiences with some elective time that can be tailored to each individual. The program takes into account differences in prior training and experiences, clinical skills, interests, cultural issues and future plans, and is flexible so that individual needs can be met.

During this residency, child and adolescent residents are expected to complete responsibly all clinical assignments in an acceptable and ethical manner. They are expected to attend and participate in all required seminars and other educational supervision. Residents are expected to participate in the evaluation process, both for themselves and their rotations and supervisions.

Upon completion of the residency, the resident will have had well supervised experiences in diagnosing and treating all the major psychiatric disorders in children, adolescents, and families; a progressive exposure to broad theoretical perspectives of development from infancy through adolescence; a comprehensive exposure to the practice of child and adolescent psychiatry within medical and community settings; an in-depth experience with administrative and clinical aspects of a variety of health care systems; critical training in reading the literature as well as basic research methodology; and personal experience with a private practice in the training clinic. This comprehensive and broad based experience prepares residents to move into practice in private, public, and/or academic arenas.

Emory Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Faculty
(Partial Listing)

Charles B. Nemeroff, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor
Chairman, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
cnemero@emory.edu

Peter Ash, M.D.
Chief, Child/Adolescent Psychiatry
Associate Professor
Pash01@emory.edu

Arden D. Dingle, M.D.
Associate Professor
Training Director, Child/Adolescent Psychiatry
adingle@emory.edu

Ann Abramowitz, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
aabramo@emory.edu

Marianne Celano, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Director, Family Evaluation Clinic
mcelano@emory.edu

Marietta Collins, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Adolescent Substance Abuse Program
mcollin@emory.edu

Adolph Casal, M.D.
Clinical Assistant Professor
Medical Director, Behavioral Health Services
Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta
Adolph.casal@choa.org

Shannon Croft, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Director, Grady Child/ Adolescent Psychiatry
Scrof01@emory.edu

Deepa Gopalakrishnan, MD
Assistant Professor
Director, School/ Preschool Rotations
dgoala@emory.edu

Yolanda Graham, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Director, Inner Harbour Hospital
docgraham@aol.com

John B. Griffin, M.D.
Professor
Medical Director, Autism Center
john_griffin@emoryhealthcare.org

Sarah E. Herbert, M.D.
Clinical Assistant Professor
Director, Infant Rotation
sherber@emory.edu

Patrice Harris, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Director, Advocacy Rotation
pharris@law.emory.edu

Karen Hochman, M.D.
Assistant Professor
khochma@emory.edu

Steve Jaffe, M.D.
Professor
Peachford Hospital
srjaffe@bellsouth.net

Nadine Kaslow, Ph.D.
Professor
Chief of Psychology
Grady Health System
nkaslow@emory.edu

Doug Lee, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Director, Development Disabilities
dlee@emory.edu

Gail McGee, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Program Director, Autism Resource Center
gmcgee@unix.cc.emory.edu

Laura Mee, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Pediatric Rehab Psychological Consultant
Egleston Children’s Hospital
Laura.mee@choa.org

Gary Ng, M.D.
Clinical Assistant Professor
Georgia Regional Hospital at Atlanta
cygng@dhr.state.ga.us

Emory Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Residents

First Year Residents / Psychiatry Residency

Sanders Mompremier Emory University
Sanders.mompremier@emory.edu

Joe Farris Emory University
jfarris@emory.edu

Steven Sugg Emory University
ssugg@emory.edu

Joseph Thompson Emory University
Jthomp3@emory.edu

Second Year Residents / Psychiatry Residency

Osvaldo Gaytan Emory University
ogaytan@emory.edu

Andro Giorgadze Emory University
agiorga@emory.edu

Michael Marcin * Emory University
mmarcin@emory.edu

Mona Hanna Medical College of Georgia
mhhanna@emory.edu

Piyush Patel East Tennessee State University
pcpatel@emory.edu

Recent Graduates	Psychiatry Residency	Career Choices
Radhika Murty	Baylor College of Medicine	Private Practice/ Community Mental Health
Vanderlyn Sewell*	UCLA/ San Fernando Valley	Residential Treatment
John Wermager	Emory University	Hospital Practice
Victoria Barnes	Tufts University	Community Mental Health
Deepa Gopalakrishnan *	Albany Medical Center	Emory Faculty
Jerlyn McCleod	Emory University	Residential Treatment
Brian Thomas	Emory University	Private Practice

 

* Chief Resident

 

 

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