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Joel E. Dimsdale, M.D., Chair
Dr. Dimsdale is Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Research Professor in the department of psychiatry at UCSD. He is an active investigator and is past-president of the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research, the American Psychosomatic Society, and the Society of Behavioral Medicine. Dimsdale is an active teacher who supervises CL psychiatry and mentors trainees and junior faculty members from many departments. Dr. Dimsdale’s major research interests are in stress and sleep. He is the author of >500 publications and the editor of 7 books.
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Michelle B. Riba, M.D., M.S., Vice Chair
Dr. Riba is Professor and Associate Chair for Integrated Medicine and Psychiatric Services and Associate Director of the University of Michigan Comprehensive Depression Center, Director of the PsychOncology Program at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Associate Director, Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research. She has served on numerous editorial boards and is the author or editor of over 200 scientific articles, books, chapters and scientific abstracts. Dr. Riba is Past President of the American Psychiatric Association, Association for Academic Psychiatry, and American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training. Currently, she is completing her second elected term as zonal representative from the American Psychiatric Association to the World Psychiatric Association. As a psychosomatic medicine psychiatrist, Dr. Riba’s clinical and research interests include primary care psychiatry, psychoncology, depression and cardiovascular disease, and screening for distress in patients with medical illness.
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Robert Boland, M.D.
Dr. Boland is a Professor of Psychiatry at Brown University, and Associate Training Director for the Brown General Psychiatry Residency. He has taught at all levels of training in the University. He directs the Introductory Psychiatry Course for Brown Medical School and is a primary lecturer in that course. He is also the director of the Clerkship in Psychiatry. He publishes in the areas of psychosomatic medicine and teaching methods in psychiatry, with more than 70 publications. He is currently on the editorial boards of Academic Psychiatry, Psychosomatics, and FOCUS (the APA’s journal of continuing education). He was appointed by the American College of Psychiatry to be Assistant Editor for the Psychiatry Residents in Training Examination (PRITE). He is Past President of the Association for Academic Psychiatry, and is the 2013 Program Chair for the American Association of Directors of Residency Training (AADPRT) and their 2013 Program Chair. Dr. Boland has contributed to research studies including the NIMH Collaborative Depression Study and the CDC- sponsored Natural History of HIV Infection in U.S. Women (HERS) Study. He has continuously served on various NIH study sections, primarily related to Behavioral Medicine interventions, over the last decade.
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Philip Bialer, M.D.
Dr. Bialer has been actively involved in the field of Psychosomatic Medicine since completing his C-L/AIDS Fellowship in 1989 at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City. He stayed on at Beth Israel to develop the AIDS Psychiatry Program there and then served as Chief of the Division of Consultation –Liaison Psychiatry. He is currently an Attending Psychiatrist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center where he is the Associate Director of the Psychosomatic Medicine Fellowship Training Program. Dr. Bialer is Board Certified in Psychosomatic Medicine and is a Councilor for the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine and Chair of that organization’s Education Committee.
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Catherine Crone, M.D.
Dr. Crone is a fellow of the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine (APM) and the APA, who is also actively involved in the American College of Psychiatrists. She is Vice Chair of Psychiatry at Inova Fairfax Hospital, Associate Professor of Psychiatry at George Washington University and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Virginia Commonwealth University. She is also the Program Director for the GWU Psychosomatic Medicine Fellowship, which is based at Inova Fairfax Hospital and has trained fellows for over 30 years. She currently serves as APM Treasurer, and is also on the ABPN Psychosomatic Medicine Committee as well as the APA’s and ACP’s Scientific Program Committees. Her clinical focus has been on organ transplantation and GI disease, providing presentations on these topics as well as a number of articles and chapters in standard psychiatric and PM textbooks. Her interests extend to issues regarding end-of-life care, psycho-oncology, and psychological adjustment to medical illness. She has long been and continues to be dedicated to fellowship training, education, and mentorship within Psychosomatic Medicine. Her proudest accomplishment to date, however, is her family, husband Nathan and son Evan.
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Mary Jane Massie, M.D.
Dr. Massie is an attending Psychiatrist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Weill Medical College of Cornel University. She is board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in both Adult Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine. She is both a Fellow and Past President of the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine; a Fellow of the American College of Psychiatry; a Distinguished Fellow and Lecturer of the American Psychiatric Association and Past President of the Medical Staff at Memorial Sloan-Kettering. Dr. Massie is Chairman of Memorial Sloan Kettering's Graduate Medical Education Committee and Chair of the New York State Council on Graduate Medical Education (COGME). Dr. Massie specializes in the psychological treatment of people with breast cancer and their families. She also counsels women who are at high risk of developing breast cancer and who are considering risk reducing options. In addition to helping care for women with breast cancer and maintaining excellence in education, she has conducted research which has been focused on developing ways to reduce the disparities in health care experienced by medically underserved women with cancer.
Lorenzo Norris, M.D.
Dr. Norris is a Professor of Psychiatry, Associate Residency Director, Medical Director of Psychosocial Behavioral Services at George Washington University Hospital, and Director of the George Washington University Cancer Survivorship Center. The center is a multi-disciplinary care center comprised of practitioners from the departments of Psychiatry, Nutrition, Palliative Care, Exercise Science, Integrative Medicine and Patient Resource Navigation. The center's mission focuses on optimizing quality of life for those in various phases of their cancer treatment. In addition to the psychiatric care of the medically ill, Dr. Norris has a strong interest in helping others understand how their relationships work. In his experience in working with those with serious illnesses Dr. Norris has been most impressed by the power of a complete and holistic approach to patient care that takes into account the power of relationships.
Terry Rabinowitz, M.D.
Dr. Rabinowitz is a professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Family Medicine at the University of Vermont (UVM) College of Medicine and has been medical director of the Psychiatry Consultation Service at Fletcher Allen Health Care (FAHC) since 1996. In 2001, he designed and implemented the first telepsychiatry consultation service in Vermont and regularly performs psychiatric consultations for rural nursing home residents in Vermont and upstate New York. He was appointed medical director of the Telemedicine Service at FAHC/UVM in 2005. In 2010, he developed the first Telepsychiatry Special Interest Group of the APM, which he chairs. He has been the principal investigator or co-investigator on government-funded projects in both the US and Canada, including a recent project funded by the Office for the Advancement of Telehealth (OAT) to develop and implement a regional telehealth resource center whose mission is to help fledgling telemedicine programs develop into independent telemedicine services. He was appointed chair of the APM Fellowship Education Subcommittee in 2010. He is the author of a total of more than fifty peer-reviewed publications, books, and book chapters. He is board-certified in General Psychiatry with added qualifications in Psychosomatic Medicine and Forensic Psychiatry.
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Erik Vanderlip, M.D.
Erik Vanderlip was raised in Tulsa, OK and received his Bachelor's degree from Rice University in Houston, Texas. After graduating from the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine in 2007, Erik relocated to Iowa City where he completed a combined residency in family medicine and psychiatry. He is currently at the University of Washington pursuing a health services research fellowship improving primary care for persons enrolled in the public mental health system.
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Thomas N. Wise, M.D.
Dr. Wise is Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins and George Washington, where he is Associate Chair. He is Chair of Psychiatry at Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church,Va. He serves on the editorial boards of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Psychosomatic Medicine, and Psychosomatics. He is certified in both General Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine Dr. Wise has authored or co authored over 315 papers or textbook chapters. He has also edited or co edited 8 books.
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Linda L.M. Worley, M.D.
Dr. Worley is now a part-time faculty member at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and is a Professor of Psychiatry in the College of Medicine where she serves as an educational consultant for the Department of Ob/Gyn. She is a staff psychiatrist in the Little Rock VA Primary Care Women’s Clinic. She also has a private practice in West Little Rock. She commutes on a quarterly basis to Vanderbilt to teach in the Distressed Physicians’ Course. She is the Vice-President of the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine and a Past President of the Association for Academic Psychiatry. Dr. Worley is completing training at the Florida Postgraduate Sex Therapy Training Institute and is writing a self-help book on achieving a 'smooth sailing life!'
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Anique Forrester, M.D. , Consultant
Dr. Forrester completed medical school training at Howard University College of Medicine. Psychiatry residency and Psychosomatic Medicine Fellowship training at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. Her special interest is in Women's Mental Health, specifically perinatal depression. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor in the department of Psychiatry at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore.
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Thomas Salter, M.D., APA/SAMHSA Fellow
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Ana Turner, M.D., APA Public Psychiatry Fellow
Dr. Turner completed medical school at the University of Florida College of Medicine, and is currently a third-year resident at the University of Florida. She is interested in public psychiatry as well as interdisciplinary collaborative care for psychiatric patients. She is currently an APA Fellow for Public Psychiatry for 2012-2014 and enjoys spending time with her husband, 3yo daughter, and 18mo son.
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