DONNA M. SIGL, M.D.

Department of
Psychiatry

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
VICE CHAIR FOR ADMINISTRATION AND FINANCE, DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRY

Child and Adol. Psychiatry Fellowship, University of New Mexico, 1999 - 2001.
General Psychiatry Residency, University of New Mexico, 1996 - 1999.
M.D., University of Arkansas School of Medicine, 1996.
M.S. Accounting and B.A. Business Administration, Oklahoma State University
 

Areas of Specialization: Administrative Psychiatry, revenue enhancement and systems optimization; child and adolescent psychiatry Enchantment: A feeling of great liking for something wonderful and unusual. New Mexico is truly the Land of Enchantment. On a personal level it has offered rich cultural, artistic, and scenic experiences.  On a professional level the rewards have been far beyond what I imagined. I came to medicine after a career in public accounting and arrived in New Mexico to begin my general fellowship shortly after Dr. Keith took over as Chairman for the Department.   Following many positive experiences throughout my residency and child fellowship training, I began my psychiatry career at UNM as Director of the Psychopharmacology Clinic at Programs for Children and later became the Executive Medical Director for the clinic.  But New Mexico is truly a place where you can have it all.   Recognizing that the revenues could be enhanced and the infrastructure improved, with Dr. Keith’s encouragement and support I began working first with the clinic and hospital finances and later with the department to bring the skills from my accounting career to the workplace of my psychiatry career. Today, I am Vice Chair for Administration and Finance in the Department of Psychiatry, and I still am able to work clinically with children and their families.  My career has provided rich and varied rewards – watching families work together to help children overcome the barriers of mental illness; teaching new fellows and residents as they learn to interview and treat children with these challenges; working with fellows who have an interest in administrative psychiatry; personal growth through ongoing mentorship with distinguished faculty; and the reward of helping the department to maximize our service, research, and faculty options.

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