Child and
Adolescent Fellowship
Department Of Psychiatry
Email:
jbereiter@salud.unm.edu
• Telephone: (505)272-5002 • Fax (505)272-0535
The Department of Psychiatry has supported a residency training program since
the inception of the School of Medicine. This program has grown from a
single resident its present level of around 38 general residents and 8 child
fellows. In addition, the Department supports a clinical child psychology
internship, and a broad range of other
educational activities. The faculty number more than 75, including 18
faculty in the Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. In addition to
the academic faculty, residents and fellows benefit from a large volunteer
clinical faculty with diverse professional backgrounds and orientations.
All faculty are actively involved in the education of child fellows
Child
Psychiatry Consultation / Liaison Service
The Child Psychiatry Consultation/Liaison Service provides child psychiatric
care to pediatric patients at the UNM Health Sciences Center. Consultation
is provided for patients in the UNM Children's Hospital, Carrie Tingley
Hospital, and pediatric and family medicine clinics. Together with the
parallel adult C/L service, over 1,100 patients are served each year, including
approximately 250 children and adolescents.
Affiliated Child Psychiatry Programs
The Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry maintains a broad spectrum of
affiliations with New Mexico schools, local and rural treatment programs,
juvenile forensic facilities, state agencies and other University of New Mexico
clinics and programs. Our school-based programs include six
multidisciplinary clinics located in Albuquerque schools (in collaboration with
family medicine and pediatrics) and mental health professionals in an additional
seven school sites. These programs are reviewed in more detail in the
Division Summary of Activities and Programs.
Psychiatric Emergency Services (PES)
PES is the setting for emergency psychiatric care at the UNM HSC. PES is
located in the Mental Health Center, and provides emergency care for both adults
and children. PES is the only psychiatric facility in the state with a
psychiatrist available to adults and children 24 hours per day.
RESEARCH RESOURCES
The faculty of the Department of Psychiatry conduct a variety of research
activities, particularly in the areas of clinical psychopharmacology and
therapeutics, psychoendocrinology, somatization and anxiety disorders,
schizophrenia, affective disorders, substance abuse, neuropsychology,
neuroimaging, methodology of clinical research, services research, and clinical
trials. The faculty are eager to have fellows participate in research, and
actively assist fellows in developing their own research careers.
The Department includes several major, nationally-recognized research resources.
The Institute for Ethics and the Empirical Ethics Group, is a national center
for research and policy development in medical and psychiatric ethics. The
Department’s National Clinical Trials Coordinating Center conducts extensive and
innovative clinical psychopharmacologic research. The Center for Non-Invasive
Diagnosis is an advanced MRI facility. The Center has three machines
ranging in power from 2 to 7 Tesla. The Veteran's Hospital is equipped
with an advanced 37-sensor magnetoencephalograph (MEG) for real-time monitoring
of CNS activity. These facilities collaborate with the Los Alamos National
Laboratory. In addition to these neuroimaging resources, the nationally funded
Domenici Mind Institute (Nancy Andreason, MD, PhD, Executive Director), a
state-of-the-art neuroimaging research center, has recently been established at
UNM. The HSC also has an Affymetrix DNA microarray analyzer for conducting
microchip genomic studies. Wet lab space is available for externally
funded research. The Department of Psychiatry is involved in
multidisciplinary research with both clinical and basic science departments
