About Us
The Department of Psychiatry is an exciting array of faculty,
residents, educational programs, research activities, and clinical
and community based facilities and programs. Samuel J. Keith, M.D., Chairman
since 1993, has brought together a vigorous faculty who have
trained and taught at the leading psychiatric institutions in the
country. Of the 74 faculty psychiatrists, more than half have
been newly appointed in the past several years. As you will see, the
department's vision is comprehensive and balanced, with considerable
emphasis placed on education, research, clinical and community
missions, and on the biological, psychological, social and cultural
aspects of Psychiatry and the related mental health professions.
And we work, play and live in the sunny, hospitable, informal,
creative, diverse, healthy, outdoors-oriented, affordable and
magical atmosphere of New Mexico.
Just a few of the many departmental highlights over the past several years include:
Education:
- Excellent national recruitment into our General and Child Psychiatric Residency,
Clinical Psychology, and Child Psychiatric Social Work programs
- Development of primary care-psychiatry program in the basic residency
- Introduction of problem-based learning seminars into the general residency
- Development of a managed-care model general outpatient clinic for residency training
- New, revised and expanded resident rotations in geriatric psychiatry, partial hospitalization, ambulatory dual diagnosis and ambulatory child psychiatry
- Expanded senior medical student elective program
Research:
- Seven junior faculty awarded NARSAD research grants
- Development of an active clinical psychopharmacology research unit
- New NIMH research grants including an RO1 to study ethical issues in informed consent and a Research Infrastructure Support Program for Minority Mental Health Services Research
- Expanded neuroimaging research programs
Clinical Activities:
- New clinical services at Mental Health Center for acute outpatient psychiatry, continuing care of patients with serious and persistent psychiatric disorders and partial hospitalization
- Revised evaluation and treatment programs in ambulatory child psychiatry
- Revised inpatient programs at the VA medical center
- Development of a primary-care psychiatry ambulatory program at the VA medical center
Community Activities:
- Rural psychiatry fellowship
- Telemedicine program with rural sites
- Affiliations with new rural family medicine residency programs
We invite you to read on, and to contact us about any of your interests and our activities.
Salud!
