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Psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine is fully committed to the mission of providing a broad and comprehensive range of clinical services to those needing mental-health and substance-abuse treatments.

Yale Psychiatry provides inpatient, ambulatory and emergency psychiatric and substance-abuse services through several facilities: APT Foundation, Connecticut Mental Health Center, Yale-New Haven Hospital, Yale Psychiatric Institute, and the Veterans Administration Medical Center at West Haven. In addition, the department offers specialized consultation in forensic psychiatry, neuropsychological testing, psychopharmacological treatment, community/organizational consultation, and women's health. Several specialized treatment clinics also exist for the assessment and management of patients with depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, schizophrenia, and alcohol and substance-abuse disorders. Services are available for adolescents, adults and elderly patients. Focused programs are offered for mood disorders, anxiety disorders, psychotic disorders, traumatic disorders, personality disorders, substance abuse, and neuro-developmental disorders. The state-of-the-art diagnostic and treatment approaches to care, consistent throughout the programs, include the following features: integration of pharmacologic and behavioral treatments, multidisciplinary approaches to treatment, emphasis on continuity of care, treatment at the least restrictive level appropriate, concurrent quality assurance and utilization review, and extensive consultation and collaboration with referring clinicians and agencies, particularly during admission and discharge planning.

The psychiatric services team comprises physicians and mental health professionals offering these services:
Adolescent and young adult psychiatry Adult psychiatry Behavioral Health Services Crisis intervention (see Programs & Centers) Geriatric psychiatry (see Programs & Centers) Psychiatric Consultation Services (see Programs & Centers) Substance abuse/dual diagnosis (see Programs & Centers)
Yale Psychiatry offers these clinical research patient care programs:
Alzheimer's Research Unit Clinical Neuroscience Research Unit Yale Anxiety Program

Adult Psychiatry

Paul H Desan, MD, PhD	Assistant Professor of Psychiatry; Director, Psychiatric Consultation Service
Ralph Edward Hoffman, MD	Professor of Psychiatry; Medical Director, Intensive Outpatient Program at Yale-New Haven Psychiatric Hospital	(203) 688-9723 Appts (203) 688-3596 Fax
Scott J Migdole, MSW	Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry; Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry (Social Work); Chief Operating Officer, Yale Behavioral Health	(203) 927-4767 Appts (203) 764-7276 Fax
Robert M Milstein, MD, PhD	Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry; Yale-New Haven Hospital, Associate Medical Director	(203) 688-9788 Appts (203) 688-9709 Fax
Alice Papsun, MD	Senior Research Scientist in Psychiatry and Assistant Clinical Professor of Nursing; Clinician	(203) 785-2619 Appts (203) 688-9709 Fax
Seth M. Powsner, MD	Professor of Psychiatry and of Emergency Medicine; Director, Crisis Intervention Unit	(203) 688-1616 Appts (203) 688-6597 Fax
William Hurt Sledge, MD	George and Esther Gross Professor of Psychiatry; Psychiatry, Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs and Program Development; Medical Director, Yale New Haven Psychiatric Hospital	(203) 688-9711 Appts (203) 688-9709 Fax
Wendol A Williams, MD	Instructor in Diagnostic Radiology	(203) 688-1914 Appts
Kimberly Ann Yonkers, MD	Professor of Psychiatry and of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences and Lecturer in Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases); Director, PMS and Perinatal Psychiatric Research Program	(203) 764-6621 Appts (203) 764-6766 Fax
Paula Zimbrean, MD	Assistant Professor of Psychiatry; Director, Transplant Psychiatry Services at Yale New Haven Hospital

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Beech, Robert D., PhD, MD	Assistant Professor of Psychiatry	(203) 737-3398 Appts
Bemis, Claudia Claire, MD		(203) 688-6361 Appts
Blumberg, Hilary, MD	Professor of Psychiatry, in the Child Study Center and of Diagnostic Radiology; Director, Mood Disorders Research Program
Chepenik, Lara G, MD, PhD	Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Desan, Paul H, MD, PhD	Assistant Professor of Psychiatry; Director, Psychiatric Consultation Service
Fehon, Dwain C, PsyD	Assistant Professor of Psychiatry; Chief Psychologist, Psychiatric Services, Yale New Haven Hospital
Hoffman, Ralph Edward, MD	Professor of Psychiatry; Medical Director, Intensive Outpatient Program at Yale-New Haven Psychiatric Hospital	(203) 688-9723 Appts (203) 688-3596 Fax
Jatlow, Peter I, MD	Professor Emeritus of Laboratory Medicine and Senior Research Scientist in Psychiatry	(203) 688-2445 Appts (203) 688-7340 Fax
Jean, Carine, MD	Lecturer in Psychiatry
Khan, Shaukat, MBBS	Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
Kikosicki, Nicole L., LCSW, MSW		(203) 288-6253 Appts (203) 288-0948 Fax
King, Robert A, MD	Professor in the Child Study Center and of Psychiatry; Medical Director, Tourette's/OCD Clinic at Yale Child Study Center	(203) 785-5880 Appts (203) 737-5104 Fax
Leckman, James Frederick, MD	Neison Harris Professor in the Child Study Center and Professor of Pediatrics and of Psychiatry	(203) 785-5880 Appts (203) 785-4914 Fax
Lombroso, Paul J, MD	Elizabeth Mears and House Jameson Professor in the Child Study Center and Professor of Neurobiology and of Psychiatry; Director, Laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology
Martin, Andrés S., MD, MPH	Riva Ariella Ritvo Professor of Pediatric Oncology Psychosocial Services, Yale Child Study Center; Deputy Chair for Training and Education and Director of Medical Studies, Yale Child Study Center; Medical Director, Children's Psychiatric Inpatient Service at Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital
Mazure, Carolyn M., PhD	Professor of Psychiatry and of Psychology; Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs; Director, Women's Health Research at Yale
Migdole, Scott J, MSW	Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry; Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry (Social Work); Chief Operating Officer, Yale Behavioral Health	(203) 927-4767 Appts (203) 764-7276 Fax
Milstein, Robert M, MD, PhD	Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry; Yale-New Haven Hospital, Associate Medical Director	(203) 688-9788 Appts (203) 688-9709 Fax
Ostroff, Robert B, MD	Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry; Medical Director adult inpatient service Yale Psychiatric hospital ; Medical director ECT service Yale Psychiatric hospital
Papsun, Alice, MD	Senior Research Scientist in Psychiatry and Assistant Clinical Professor of Nursing; Clinician	(203) 785-2619 Appts (203) 688-9709 Fax
Powsner, Seth M., MD	Professor of Psychiatry and of Emergency Medicine; Director, Crisis Intervention Unit	(203) 688-1616 Appts (203) 688-6597 Fax
Rathbun, Elizabeth
Redmond, Xoli, PsyD	Clinician; Psychologist	(203) 772-8882 Appts
Scott, James Lester, Jr, MD	Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
Sinha, Rajita, PhD	Foundations Fund Professor of Psychiatry and Professor in the Child Study Center and of Neurobiology; Director, Yale Interdisciplinary Stress Center; Chief, Psychology Section in Psychiatry; Deputy Director, Yale Center for Clinical Investigation (Yale CTSA)	(203) 737-3398 Appts
Sledge, William Hurt, MD	George and Esther Gross Professor of Psychiatry; Psychiatry, Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs and Program Development; Medical Director, Yale New Haven Psychiatric Hospital	(203) 688-9711 Appts (203) 688-9709 Fax
Tampi, Rajesh R, MBBS, DMedSci	Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry; Director, Masonicare Behavioral Health Services	(203) 688-9907 Appts
Toll, Benjamin A., PhD	Associate Professor of Psychiatry; Program Director, Smoking Cessation Service at Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven	(203) 688-1378 Appts
Tuit, Keri, PsyD	Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Lecturer in Psychology	(203) 737-1176 Appts (203) 737-1272 Fax
van Dyck, Christopher H, MD	Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology, and Neurobiology; Director, Alzheimer's Disease Research Unit	(203) 764-8100 Appts (203) 764-8111 Fax
Volkmar, Fred R, MD	Irving B. Harris Professor in the Child Study Center and Professor of Pediatrics, of Psychiatry and of Psychology; Chief, Child Psychiatry at Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital; Chair, Child Study Center	(203) 785-3420 Appts (203) 785-7402 Fax
Yonkers, Kimberly Ann, MD	Professor of Psychiatry and of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences and Lecturer in Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases); Director, PMS and Perinatal Psychiatric Research Program	(203) 764-6621 Appts (203) 764-6766 Fax
Zimbrean, Paula, MD	Assistant Professor of Psychiatry; Director, Transplant Psychiatry Services at Yale New Haven Hospital