Applications for the 2020-2021 academic year are now open.
The deadline for applications is December 1, 2020.

A completed application packet contains the following:

Application

Updated Curriculum Vitae

Medical School Transcripts

USMLE/COMPLEX Scores Steps 1, 2, & 3

3 Letters of Recommendation (one from current Training Director)

ECFMG Certificate (when applicable)

Send materials to

Gabrielle Trujillo

Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

2400 Tucker Avenue NE

1 University of New Mexico

MSC09 5030

Albuquerque, NM 87131

Consultation-Liaison Fellowship Application

At UNM Hospital and the Raymond G. Murphy VA Hospital, you will act as a primary consultant performing diagnostic interviews and examinations, follow-up visits, and communicating with medical and surgical teams. You will assume responsibility for leadership of the multidisciplinary service as your experience increases throughout the year.

Each week, you will spend one half-day as part of a multidisciplinary collaborative care behavioral health team, managing primary care patients referred for psychiatric evaluation. You will also conduct e-consultations via the electronic medical record and manage behavioral health care registries.

Here, you will be an embedded consultant in a subspecialty medical clinic (HIV, neurology/neurosurgery, women’s health, etc.) for one half-day each week. You will conduct specialized diagnostic interviews and examinations, utilize unique therapeutics, and communicate directly with the patients’ specialty care providers.

While based at UNM Hospital, you will join one of the Project ECHO Clinic multidisciplinary hub teams (Endocrine, Hepatitis C, or Chronic Pain) for one half-day each week and provide psychiatric input on cases presented by remote providers from around the state.

Neuropsychiatry

Our C-L faculty are national leaders in research and clinical care of psychiatric manifestations of traumatic brain injury, movement disorders, and epilepsy. You may have the opportunity to participate in federally-funded clinical trials of neuromodulation, advanced neuroimaging, and novel pharmacotherapies for these conditions.

Davin Quinn, MD

Chief, Division of Behavioral Health Consultation & Integration 

Director, UNM Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Service

Director, UNM/NMVAHCS Consultation/Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship

Emiliano Valles, MD

Medical Director, UNMH Adult Psychiatric Consultation Service

Chronic Pain/Addiction

New Mexico has developed some of the most innovative methods of addressing and treating chronic pain and substance use disorders in the country. These include the use of prescription monitoring databases, motivational interviewing, telemedicine initiatives, and specific clinics for the management of co-occurring chronic pain and addiction.

Cynthia Geppert, MD, PhD

Site Director, NM/VAHCS; national expert in co-occurring disorders and bioethics

HIV and Infectious Disease

The HIV Truman Street Clinic provides team-based, patient-centered collaborative care to a large population of HIV+ individuals. In addition to psychotherapy and psychopharmacology consultations, services provided include medication-assisted treatment for substance use disorders, transcranial magnetic stimulation, and transgender care.

Brant Hager, MD

Attending psychiatrist, HIV Truman Street Clinic Truman; specific areas of expertise: psychiatric care of patients living with HIV, and transgender/gender non-conforming persons

Perinatal/Women’s Mental Health

Our faculty have fellowship training in C-L psychiatry, women’s mental health, and child psychiatry, with most care delivered through embedded consultants in specialty clinics.

Nina Higgins, MD

Director, Reproductive Psychiatry and Infant Mental Health Fellowship

Kimothi Cain, MD

Associate Director, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship

Collaborative Care

The UNM and NMVAHCS primary care clinics feature psychologists, social workers, and psychiatrists as part of an integrated behavioral health team working to address issues such as depression, anxiety, and substance use disorders.

Jasen Christensen, MD

Medical Director, Behavioral Health Integration and Expansion

You can supplement core rotations with elective experiences or scholarly projects.

Sample Schedule