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Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship

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2024 Graduation

Our fellowship, accredited since 2007, creates leaders in healing, education, and research and increases the number of underrepresented minorities in the field, as our graduates work in diverse settings and with diverse populations. We are committed to an atmosphere of support for our trainees that emphasizes their wellness and ensures an emphasis on their training needs.

Our fellows have opportunities to practice psychiatry in a population with challenging comorbid psychiatric, neurologic, and medical illnesses. As life expectancy continues to increase and sociopolitical forces limit availability of quality mental health care in the community, this ever-increasing patient population will demand the expertise of CL psychiatrists. We supplement general psychiatry training with a rich clinical experience and academic environment. Our fellows are leaders on interdisciplinary teams composed of medical and physician assistant students, residents, psychologists, psychology doctoral interns, and social workers. They have daily opportunities to teach medical students and psychiatry residents, as well as residents in other medical specialties, and participate in quality improvement, patient safety, and scholarly activities.

  • Scope of Education and Electives

    We provide formal supervision through daily teaching rounds and weekly didactics, as well as weekly CL teaching and case conferences, monthly CL journal club, and weekly Grand Rounds. Countless other learning opportunities on campus include Ethics Grand Rounds, Effective Teachers Lecture Series, and teaching conferences in Combined Medicine/Psychiatry, Combined Neurology/Psychiatry, and Forensic, Addiction, and Geriatric Psychiatry.

    Teaching medical students and physician assistant students and psychiatry residents is an important part of fellowship training. We encourage our fellows to develop specialized interests within CL Psychiatry and complete an academic or research project. Established clinical researchers in Psychiatry mentor our fellows.

    Electives

    • Parkland and Associated Clinics:
      • Bioethics with Dr. Jenna Wimberly
      • Psycho-Oncology with Dr. Diana Robinson
      • Perinatal/Obstetrics/Women’s Mental Health with Dr. Meitra Doty
      • Inpatient Addiction Psychiatry with Dr. Kapila Marambage
      • Psychiatry Early Assessment Team with Dr. Pedro Fernandez
      • Integrated Psychiatry-Family Medicine with Dr. Michael Jennings
      • Integrated Psychiatry-Internal Medicine, Integrated Behavioral Health in Primary Care with Dr. Chandan Khandai
      • HIV Psychiatry with Dr. Pedro Fernandez
      • Integrative Medicine in Chronic Pain Management with Dr. Pedro Fernandez
    • University Hospital and Associated Clinics:
      • Perinatal/Obstetrics/Women’s Health with Dr. Jasmine Stephens
      • Neuropsychiatry/Geriatrics with Drs. Molly Camp and Chad Lane
      • Transplant with Dr. Ben Lippe
      • Outpatient Addiction Psychiatry with Dr. Sidarth Wakhlu
      • Psychiatry Emergency Medicine with Drs. Cate Orsak, Dennis Le, Mike Rafferty
      • Critical Care Psychiatry with Dr. Jonathan deVries
    • Dallas VAMC and associated clinics:
      • Outpatient and Residential Addiction Psychiatry with Dr. Monica Barbosa
  • Training Sites

    Fellows gain exposure to diverse patient populations, reflecting a variety of ethnic, socioeconomic, and cultural backgrounds at UT Southwestern-affiliated hospitals, including Parkland, William P. Clements Jr. University Hospital, and the Dallas Veterans Affairs Medical Center. The diverse patient population and opportunity to work with and learn from our large psychiatry faculty at these three teaching hospitals are strengths of our program.

    • Parkland is a publicly funded, 862-bed county hospital that opened in 2015. Parkland allows trainees to see patients on a variety of medical services and practice liaison care within the context of a large hospital system with a Level 1 Trauma Center, one of the largest civilian burn units in the United States, and one of the busiest obstetrics services in the nation. Fellows will work on the Addiction Psychiatry CL service and have opportunities for buprenorphine waiver training.

      Fellows will attend Parkland Institutional Ethics Committee meetings each month while on the Parkland Consult-Liaison rotation and may also participate in an ethics consultation service elective. The Parkland Institutional Ethics Committee meets its consultation mission through a robust clinical ethics consult service, with a volume of 200 consults/year. Fellows are invited to participate in new consults that arise during their rotation on the committee. In order to improve the care delivery to our patients, families and loved ones with behavioral health concerns, fellows may also participate in an ethics consultation service elective for 1-4 weeks during the year. During the elective, fellows will be expected to participate in facilitating ethics consultation services, serving as the primary contact for ethics consults with behavioral health concerns. Fellows will also be expected to work collaboratively with behavioral health team members on the ethics committee to identify interdisciplinary care team members needing support. Jennifer M Wimberly, Medical Director of Clinical Ethics and Resiliency and Theresa Larsen, Advance Practice Service Lead of Consult-Liaison Psychiatry at Parkland Health will serve as points of contact for the rotation and elective.

    • William P. Clements Jr. University Hospital  is a 751-bed university hospital that opened in 2014 and received a major expansion in 2020 as a state-of-the-art facility designed to be patient centered. The hospital is the inpatient home of the Peter O’Donnell Brain Institute and allows for consultation with neurology colleagues and their patients with complex, often rare, neurological conditions. UT Southwestern Transplant Services are based at this hospital, adding to the CL Psychiatry training opportunities, along with consultation to the medical, surgical, and obstetrics services and the Emergency Department. One of our CL psychiatry faculty, Dr. Jonathan deVries, works full-time in the MICU, providing a 1-month rotation for fellows in critical care psychiatry.

    • Dallas Veterans Affairs Medical Center  is a vibrant academic medical center and part of the Veterans Administration (VA) North Texas Health Care System, which is the second largest VA in the US. It provides fellows with specialized CL clinical, research, and educational experiences in the Spinal Cord Injury Center and the Traumatic Brain Injury and Polytrauma centers, in addition to the medical and surgical units, Emergency Department, and Primary Care-Mental Health Integration outpatient clinics.

      CL fellows have ambulatory care experiences in integrated/collaborative care in various outpatient clinical settings, such as HIV, Pain, Neuropsychiatry, Oncology, Maternal Fetal Medicine, Transplant, Integrated Internal Medicine-Psychiatry clinics, and integrated Family Medicine-Psychiatry clinics.

      CL fellows receive multiple opportunities to enhance their clinical, communication, leadership, and teambuilding skills as they serve a patient population at UT Southwestern that presents from a variety of backgrounds, speaks a variety of languages, and may present with extremely challenging and complicated medical, neurological, psychiatric, and social histories.
  • Rotations

    Parkland

    The Parkland Memorial Hospital Consultation Liaison Psychiatry Service is a large service made up of multiple teams to serve Dallas County. On average, the daily number of consults is 10, with each resident and fellow taking 2 new consults per day. The service includes the Triage Team, made up of a postgraduate year 4 resident, a social worker, up to two advanced practice providers, and a psychiatry registered nurse. This team organizes the consults by acuity and complexity and assigns consults to the rest of the teams. The rest of the service includes two teaching teams, often with two residents who can be psychiatry residents, neurology/psychiatry residents, neurology residents, or internal medicine/psychiatry residents. A separate addiction team is composed of an addiction fellow, multiple psychiatry residents, two social workers, and an advanced practice provider. All these teams have medical students and often physician assistant students as learners. Also, a separate psychology team is staffed by three psychologists with multiple psychology interns. The Consultation Liaison Psychiatry Fellow will meet with Dr. Fernandez and Dr. Robinson to develop a personalized schedule based on interest, which can be a combination of experiences. An average work day is 8 am to 5 pm.

    Inpatient

    • Addiction: Rotate with Dr. Marambage and the addiction fellows treating substance use disorders and psychiatric comorbidities. On this team, one can gain more confidence treating complicated alcohol withdrawal, starting Suboxone (buprenorphine/naloxone) or methadone, treating stimulant withdrawal, and practicing motivational interviewing.
    • Junior Attending: Rotate as the junior attending for one of the general CL teaching teams. On this rotation, one can gain experience guiding junior residents in evaluations and treatment of all psychiatric illnesses found on the CL service with evidence-based care, practice giving feedback to junior residents, learn to attest notes, and improve teaching skills for learners at all levels. This is a rotation for a fellow interested in an academic career.
    • Psychiatric Early Assessment Team: The PEAT pilot program, started by Dr. Fernandez, screens the overnight admissions on one Parkland Hospital floor. The initial screening identifies risk factors for needing a psychiatric consultation. Secondary screening involves a structured evaluation of the patient to identify if a full psychiatric consultation is needed. This experience is important, as this model of psychiatric care delivery is becoming more common across the country.
    • Burn Trauma: The Parkland Burn Center is one of the largest in the United States, caring for over 2,000 burn victims annually. The CL fellow joins the weekly multidisciplinary burn meetings and provides the psychiatric consults for the burn trauma team. This rotation is for the fellow with interest in not only Burn Psychiatry but also ICU Psychiatry and who enjoys being part of a multidisciplinary team.
    • Ethics: The ethics rotation is for the CL fellow interested in the intersection of ethical dilemmas and psychiatry. The CL fellow will take the ethics consults that overlap with CL consults and have the opportunity to work with the Chair of the Parkland Ethics Committee on general ethics consults.

    Outpatient

    • Psycho-Oncology: Work with Dr. Robinson embedded within the outpatient hematology-oncology clinic treating specific cancer-related and cancer-treatment-related neuropsychiatric symptoms. The CL fellow will work with patients in all stages of illness, from diagnosis to survivorship. This experience also includes a psycho-oncology journal club that the fellow can continue throughout the year.
    • Maternal Fetal Medicine: This rotation is an experience for fellows interested in learning not only maternal fetal medicine psychiatry but also another model of collaborative care. The fellow works with Dr. Doty, providing informal and formal consults to the Parkland OB-GYN outpatient clinic.
    • Other Outpatient CL Rotations:
      • HIV Clinic
      • Integrated Pain Management Clinic
      • Primary Care-Diabetes

    Clements University Hospital

    The CL service comprises two teams of psychiatry residents, internal medicine/psychiatry resident, or neurology/psychiatry resident, and the CL faculty. Medical students and physician assistant students are learners on the service. The average number of consults on this service is 4 daily. The Consultation Liaison Psychiatry Fellow will work with Dr. Orsak to develop a schedule based on interest while at Clements, which can be a combination of rotations. In general, the workday is 9 am to 5 pm.

    Inpatient

    • Junior Attending: One learns the triage process by holding the consult pager and dividing consults as appropriate into curbside consults or full consults. In addition, the CL fellow is the junior attending for the team. One can gain experience guiding junior residents in evaluations and treatment of all psychiatric illnesses found on the CL service with evidence-based care, practice giving feedback to junior residents, learning to attest notes, and improving teaching skills for learners at all levels. This rotation is for a fellow interested in an academic career.
    • Transplant Psychiatry: Work with Dr. Lippe, the transplant psychologist at Clements, providing transplant evaluations and participating in multidisciplinary lung and kidney transplant meetings to discuss listing patients for transplant. When a patient needs specific psychiatric treatment, the fellow has the opportunity to follow that patient while in the hospital with the CL psychiatry faculty.
    • Critical Care Psychiatry: Work with Dr. deVries, who is embedded in the MICU, to provide specialized psychiatric consultation to the other MICU physicians and their patients.

    Outpatient

    • Geriatric/Neuropsychiatry: Work with Dr. Camp and Dr. Lane in an outpatient Geriatric Psychiatry clinic, helping patients and families navigate the challenges of neurocognitive disorders and other psychiatric illnesses. One can also spend time with one of the neuropsychologists, observing formal neuropsychology testing and feedback sessions.
    • Addiction Psychiatry: Work with Dr. Wakhlu in his outpatient addiction psychiatry clinic treating all substance use disorders. This rotation is good to follow the Parkland inpatient addiction rotation.
    • Other Outpatient CL Rotations:
      • Obstetrics/Women’s Health
      • Opportunity is also available to develop skills as a psychiatrist working in the emergency medicine department of a large academic medical center

    Dallas VA Medicine Center

    The team is composed of CL Psychiatry Faculty, Nurse Practitioners (NP), and an Administrative Social Worker. Addiction psychiatry fellows and CL fellows, as well as medical students and NP students, rotate on the service. The average number of consults is variable, as the CL psychiatry service covers consults from the inpatient medical and surgical services as well as the CLC and ER. Most of the ER consults will be seen by Nurse Practitioners, but you are welcome to see any patients in the ER. The CL Psychiatry Fellow will work as an independent psychiatrist and staff with the CL faculty who will be supervisors on the service. The CL fellow acts as supervisor of medical students and NP students who rotate on to the service. The CL fellow assists with orientation for trainees and guides trainees during psychiatric interviews. The fellow will be given the opportunity to present at the VA Grand Rounds or Journal Club during this rotation. In general, the workday is 8 AM to 4 PM.

    Inpatient

    • Junior Attending: Attend morning virtual VA huddle at 8:45 AM with hospitalist teams. The administrative social worker represents the CL psychiatry team during morning huddles, however, questions pertaining to particular patients may arise and team members can address these questions during this time. The CL fellow will learn the triage process by holding the consult phone and triaging as appropriate including distributing consults among the team and dividing consults as appropriate into curbside consults or full consults. In addition, the CL fellow acts as the junior attending for the team. The fellow will gain experience guiding trainees in evaluations and treatment of all psychiatric illnesses found on the CL service with evidence-based care, practice giving feedback to trainees, learning to attest notes, and improving teaching skills for learners at all levels. This rotation is for a fellow interested in an academic career.

    Outpatient

    • Half day a week
    • Addiction Psychiatry: Work with Dr. Barbosa in the 5N substance use disorder inpatient program at the Dallas VA and the addiction outpatient clinic. In the inpatient 5N program, CL fellows will work with addiction fellows and conduct a comprehensive psychiatric evaluation with emphasis on substance use history. CL fellows will also see patients in the addiction outpatient clinic and act as educators for medicine residents and psychiatry residents who also rotate on the service.
    • Trauma Clinic and Geriatric Clinic are other outpatient options
  • Sample Schedules

    Junior Attending Rotation

    Day/Time 

    Monday 

    Tuesday 

    Wednesday 

    Thursday 

    Friday 

    8am – 12pm 

    Psycho-oncology clinic 

    Table rounds & rounding with junior resident 

    Table rounds & rounding with junior resident 

    Table rounds & rounding with junior resident 

    Table rounds & rounding with junior resident 

    12-1pm 

    CL Conference 

    No conference 

    Psychiatry Grand Rounds 

    No conference 

    No conference 

    1-3 pm 

    Staffing cases with resident 

    Staffing cases with resident 

    Staffing cases with resident 

    Staffing cases with resident 

    Staffing cases with resident 

    3-5 pm 

    Staffing cases with resident & checking out with faculty 

    Staffing cases with resident & checking out with faculty 

    Staffing cases with resident & checking out with faculty 

    3pm – Supervision with Dr. Orsak 

    4 pm - Didactics 

    Staffing cases with resident & checking out with faculty 

    Combination Schedule

    Day/Time 

    Monday 

    Tuesday 

    Wednesday 

    Thursday 

    Friday 

    8am – 12 pm 

    Rounds on Burn Trauma and Ethics patients 

    Rounds with Addiction Team 

    Rounds on Burn Trauma and Ethics patients 

    Rounds on Burn Trauma and Ethics patients 

    Rounds on Burn Trauma and Ethics patients 

    12-1 pm 

    CL Case Conference 

    Ethics Meeting & Grand Rounds  

    Psychiatry Grand Rounds 

    Burn Trauma Multidisciplinary Meeting 

    No conference 

    1-3 pm 

    Rounds continued 

    Rounds with Addiction Team 

    Rounds on Burn Trauma and Ethics patients 

    Maternal Fetal Medicine Clinic 

    Rounds on Burn Trauma and Ethics patients 

    3-5 pm 

    Rounds and checkout with faculty 

    Rounds with Addiction Team 

    3 pm – Supervision with Dr. Orsak 

    4 pm - Didactics 

    Maternal Fetal Medicine Clinic 

    Rounds on Burn Trauma and Ethics patients 

    Transplant and Addiction

    Day/Time 

    Monday 

    Tuesday 

    Wednesday 

    Thursday 

    Friday 

    8am – 12 pm 

    Rounds on general CL service 

    Lung transplant meeting & outpatient transplant evaluations 

    Rounds on general CL service 

    Rounds on general CL service 

    Outpatient Addiction Clinic 

    12-1 pm 

    CL Conference 

    No conference 

    Psychiatry Grand Rounds 

    No Conference 

    No Conference 

    1-3 pm 

    Rounds on general CL service 

    Inpatient transplant evaluations 

    Rounds on general CL service 

    Rounds on general CL service 

    Outpatient Addiction Clinic 

    3-5 pm 

    Rounds on general CL service 

    Kidney Transplant meeting 

    Rounds on general CL service 

    3 pm – Supervision with Dr. Orsak 

    4 pm - Didactics 

    Academic scholarly project time 

    VA Medical Center

    Day/Time 

    Monday 

    Tuesday 

    Wednesday 

    Thursday 

    Friday 

    8am – 12pm 

    8:45 AM - Virtual Huddle
    Rounds on general CL service 

    8:45 AM - Virtual Huddle
    Rounds on general CL service 

    8:45 AM - Virtual Huddle
    Rounds on general CL service 

    Addiction Clinic 

    8:45 AM - Virtual Huddle
    Rounds on general CL service 

    12-1pm 

    CL Conference 

    No conference 

    Psychiatry Grand Rounds 

    No conference 

    No conference 

    1-3 pm 

    Rounds on CL service
    Staffing cases with faculty 

    Rounds on CL service
    Staffing cases with faculty 

    Rounds on CL service
    Staffing cases with faculty 

    Research or other academic project
    2 pm - Didactics 

    Rounds on CL service
    Staffing cases with faculty 

    3-5 pm 

    Staffing cases & checking out with faculty 

    Staffing cases & checking out with faculty 

    Staffing cases & checking out with faculty 

    3pm – Supervision with Dr. Orsak 

    4 pm - Didactics

    Staffing cases & checking out with faculty 

  • Application Process

    How to Apply

    Submit your application via the Electronic Residency Application Service

    or

    Complete the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Common Application and email it to both Dr. Orsak (catherine.orsak@utsouthwestern.edu) and Ty Sanders (tywana.sanders@utsouthwestern.edu)

    Additional Information

    We must receive the completed application before we will interview (we conduct virtual interviews).

    GME Policies

    Please note that as part of the application and interview process for a potential fellowship position in our program, we are accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and you would need to meet ACGME requirements for matriculation in our program.

    Upon graduation from our training program, most of our graduates seek board certification. The process of board certification is separate from training and has additional requirements. Some board organizations require completion of all your education in an ACGME-accredited training program. Please contact the appropriate certifying board to understand your eligibility for board certification before accepting (if offered) a fellowship position at our institution.

    Sample Contracts, Salaries, Benefits

  • Faculty

    UT Southwestern William P. Clements Jr. University Hospital

    Cate Orsak, M.D.

    Cate Orsak, M.D.

    Professor

    • Program Director, CL Psychiatry Fellowship
    • Medical Director, CL Psychiatry Service, Clements University Hospital
    • Interests: PTSD, TBI, Transplant, Functional Neurological Disorder, Somatic Symptom Disorder
     Dr. Sherwood Brown

    Sherwood Brown, M.D., Ph.D., M.B.A.

    Professor

    • Vice Chair, Clinical Research
    • Chief, Division of Clinical Neuroscience
    • Interest: Co-occurring conditions with mood disorders (e.g., asthma, cortisol elevations)
    Molly Camp

    Molly Camp, M.D.

    Associate Professor

    • Interest: Geriatric psychiatry
    Dr. Jonathan deVries

    Jonathan deVries, M.D.

    Assistant Professor

    • Specialty in Critical Care Psychiatry
    • Interests: ICU delirium, clinical hypnosis, augmentation strategies for catatonia, ECMO sedation
    Dr. Nhan (Dennis) Le

    Nhan (Dennis) Le, M.D.

    Associate Professor

    • Interests: Emergency and general CL psychiatry
    Chadrick Lane, M.D.

    Chadrick Lane, M.D.

    Assistant Professor

    • Assistant Professor
    • Peter O'Donnell Jr. Brain Institute Clinical Neuroscience Scholar
    • Interests: Neuropsychiatry, Functional Neurological Disorders, Epilepsy
    Dr. Ben Lippe

    Ben Lippe, Ph.D.

    Assistant Professor

    • Interests: Transplant psychiatry, health psychology, chronic pain management
    Valerie Loehr

    Valerie Loehr, Ph.D.

    Assistant Professor

    • Interests: Addiction and perinatal psychology
     Dr. Michael Rafferty

    Michael Rafferty, M.D.

    Associate Professor

    • Interests: Addiction, buprenorphine micro-dosing, delirium, catatonia, autoimmune encephalitis
    Jasmine Stephens

    Jasmine Stephens, M.D.

    Assistant Professor

    • Interest: Women's reproductive mental health
    Sidarth Wakhlu

    Sidarth Wakhlu, M.D.

    Professor

    • Interest: Addiction psychiatry

    Parkland Memorial Hospital

    Mallory Cash

    Mallory Cash, M.D.

    Assistant Professor

    • Medical Director, CL Psychiatry Service
    • Interests: Capacity, medical ethics, emergency psychiatry
    Amor A. Correa, Ph.D.

    Amor A. Correa, Ph.D.

    Assistant Professor

    • Interests: Forensic psychology, psychological assessment with Spanish-speaking and culturally diverse populations, malingering and other response styles, test development, delusional disorders
    Meitra Doty, M.D.

    Meitra Doty, M.D.

    Associate Professor

    • Interests: Reproductive psychiatry, women's health, maternal mental health, trauma-related disorders
    Abbie Ewell, M.D.

    Abbie Ewell, M.D.

    Assistant Professor

    • Interests: Addiction, dual diagnosis, mood disorders
    Pedro Fernandez, M.D.

    Pedro Fernandez, M.D.

    Assistant Professor

    • Chief of Psychiatry, Parkland Health
    • Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine and Psychiatry Combined Residency
    • Interest: Pain management
    Latoya Frolov, M.D.

    Latoya Frolov, M.D.

    Assistant Professor

    • Interests: Reproductive psychiatry, women's health
    Christian Goans, Ph.D.

    Christian Goans, Ph.D.

    Assistant Professor

    • Interests: Motivational interviewing, suicide risk assessment
    Abhisek (Chandan) Khandai, M.D.

    Abhisek (Chandan) Khandai, M.D.

    Assistant Professor

    • Interests: Integrated and collaborative care; women's mental health; diversity, equity, and inclusion
    Kapila Marambage, M.D.

    Kapila Marambage, M.D.

    Assistant Professor

    • Interest: Addiction psychiatry
    Emily May, M.D.

    Emily May, M.D.

    Assistant Professor

    • Board certified in psychiatry and internal medicine
    • Interests: Outpatient and geriatric psychiatry, internal medicine
    Kimberly Roaten, Ph.D.

    Kimberly Roaten, Ph.D.

    Associate Professor

    • Interests: Suicide prevention, quality improvement, psychological recovery after burn injury
    Diana Robinson, M.D.

    Diana Robinson, M.D.

    Assistant Professor

    • Interests: Neuropsychiatry, especially catatonia, delirium; addiction
    Jennifer Wimberly

    Jennifer ("Jenna") M. Wimberly, M.D., M.A., HEC-C

    Chair, Institutional Ethics Committee

    • Interests: Individual and team resiliency and wellness, sustaining an organizational culture committed to ethical practice and mutual respect among caregivers

    Dallas Veterans Affairs Medical Center

    Ahmad Arain, M.D.

    Ahmad Arain, M.D.

    Assistant Professor

    • Interests: Neuropsychiatry, addiction psychiatry
    Monica Barbosa, M.D.

    Monica Barbosa, M.D.

    Assistant Professor

    • Interest: Addiction psychiatry
    Do Gwak, M.D.

    Do Gwak, M.D.

    Assistant Professor

    Pierre Joseph, M.D.

    Pierre Joseph, M.D.

    Assistant Professor

    • Interests: Interventional psychiatry (ECT, TMS, VNS), other therapeutic interventions complementing psychopharmacology and psychotherapy
    Henry Weisman, M.D.

    Henry Weisman, M.D.

    Medical Director, Mental Health CL Team

    • Interests: Delirium; pharmacology and psychotherapy with the medically ill, emergency psychiatry/crisis intervention, coping, end-of-life issues, bioethics, culture, HIV, pacemaker dependence, dialysis
  • Current Fellows
    Aisha Gillan
    Aisha Gillan, M.D., M.B.A.

    Dr. Gillan was born in Toronto, Canada, but raised largely in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. She studied Neuroscience and Business Administration in college and went on to complete her medical degree from University of North Texas Health Sciences Center. Her psychiatry residency was completed at University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, where she also concurrently completed her MBA through University of Oklahoma. Her background in neuroscience combined with her love for teaching fostered her interest in CL psychiatry. Additional professional interests include driving educational initiatives to improve diversity and cultural competence in psychiatry, increasing physician representation in business administration roles, and general advocacy within medicine. Outside medicine, Dr. Gillan enjoys live music, spending time with her dog, reading fiction, trying out new restaurants, attending Pilates classes, and binge-watching various TV series.

    Ahana Yogesh
    Ahana Yogesh, M.D.

    Dr. Yogesh is originally from the East Coast but was largely raised in Austin, TX. She completed her undergraduate degree at University of Texas at Dallas and medical degree at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. She continued to LAG+USC in Los Angeles for psychiatry residency, where she took an interest in CL psychiatry, women's mental health, and structural psychiatry. During her final year of residency, she served as chief resident of the psychiatric emergency department. In her free time, she enjoys cooking and exploring new restaurants, going to concerts, watching movies, singing, and playing board games.

  • Alumni

    Mehreen Khan, M.D., M.H.A., graduated in 2024 and accepted a faculty position as assistant professor for Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine, Burnett School of Medicine at Texas Christian University, and Texas A&M. During the fellowship, Dr. Khan presented VA MH grand rounds “Healthcare disparities in Pain Management” and presented the poster “Utilizing Resident Feedback to Optimize Residency Rotation Scheduling” at the Annual Meeting of Association of Academic Psychiatry. Additionally, Dr. Khan presented "Perinatal and Postpartum Management" at a CL Psychiatry teaching conference (Parkland Hospital and CUH). She was selected for and completed the Primary Clinicians Engaged in Research and Clinical and Educational Program Developers track at the ACLP 2023 Developing Scholars Research Colloquium. Dr. Khan also was a speaker on the topic of “How to deal with Anxiety” for the American Muslim Women Physician Association (AMPWA) mentoring program. She was a panelist in the discussion on residency interviews for the AMPWA mentoring program and on medical careers for the Young Women’s Leadership Academy. She received the AMWPA Excellence in Mentorship Award.

    Juliann Tea, M.D. (2023), and joined the Baylor College of Medicine CL faculty working at the Houston, Texas, VA. Dr. Tea presented a poster at the 2023 annual meeting of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry on research conducted with Dr. Gwak, Dr. Brown, and other colleagues on "The Independent Contributions of Asthma Control and Mental Health on Asthma-Related Quality of Life."

    Do Gwak, M.D. (2023), began working full-time at the Dallas VA Medical Center upon graduation and joined the UTSW psychiatry faculty.

    Anne Louise Stewart, M.D. (2021), accepted a faculty position at the University of Virginia Department of Psychiatry as a Consultation-Liaison Psychiatrist.

    Basar Cenik, M.D., Ph.D., graduated in 2018 and is on the faculty at Northwestern University Medical School.

    Mallory Cash, M.D. (2018), is an Assistant Professor at UT Southwestern:

    Ahmad Arain, M.D. (2017), is an Assistant Professor at UT Southwesternrn