Recent Resident Presentations

“Toward a Unifying Vision of Recovery from Severe Mental Illness” - Monica Slubiki, M.D.

“Quest for perfection- enhancement or self-fulfillment?” - Doug Burgess, M.D.

"Personal psychotherapy for residents: Is it valuable and do we value it?” - Brita Klein, M.D.

“A Mysterious Case of Amnesia: Conversion, Dissociation and the Power of Suggestion” - Margo Funk, M.D.

“Post-Traumatic Growth” - Christiane Kubit, M.D.

"Reflections on Medical and Psychiatric Care in Western Kenya" - Kristen Shirey, M.D.

"Alcohol Dependence After Bariatric Surgery" - JD Harrison, M.D., M.P.H.

“Hoarding” - Matt Conner, M.D.

 
Recent Resident Projects 

Project in Haiti - Matthew Pierson, M.D.

  
Program graduates: what are they doing now?

2010
Maria Almond:  Global Health Resident in Tanzania
Carolina Aponte:  Private Practice in Kansas City, Missouri
Sophiya Benjamin:  Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship at Duke
Doug Burgess:  Addiction Fellow at MUSC in Charleston, SC
Jennifer Farmer:  working at Asheville VA
Margo Funk:  Medical Staff at Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, OH
Brita Klein:  Fellowship Hall Attending, Psychotherapy Supervisor and working with Private Practice
Christy Kubit:  Medical Staff Position at Hospital in Danbury, CT
Karen Miles:  in Raleigh as medical director of a Critical Access Behavioral Health Agency (CABHA) and will also have a private practice
Monica Slubicki:  Psychosocial Rehab Fellowship at VA in Durham
Ellen Walker:  Private Practice in Durham

2009
Carolina Aponte:  Duke Geropsychiatry Fellow
Victoria Carroll:  Duke faculty, Duke-NUS medical school faculty in Singapore
Craig Chepke:  Private outpatient and community hospital inpatient practice in Charlotte, NC
Harold Hong:  MBA coursework and VA outpatient practice
Daniel McCabe:  Private outpatient community practice in Hood River, Oregon
Alexandra Spessot:  Director, Outpatient Addictions Service, Miami VA in Florida
Steve Vas: Group outpatient practice in Durham, NC
Ellen Walker: Duke Geropsychiatry Fellow
Greg Weiss: Medical staff at Miami VAMC

2008
Seamus Bhatt-Mackin: Duke faculty and full-time Durham VA staff psychiatrist
Carrie Brown: Duke faculty and fulltime Central Regional Hospital staff psychiatrist
Logan Graddy: University of West Virginia forensic psychiatry fellowship, then private forensic practice in Durham, NC
Kerry Landry: Duke Child fellowship, then private practice in the Triangle
Jed Perdue: University of Oklahoma faculty and VA staff psychiatrist
Sarah Richey: Sleep medicine fellowship at Stanford University

2007
Georgette DeJesus:  Child fellowship at NYU
Dionne Harrison:  Private practice at the Carter Clinic in Raleigh , NC
Warren Kinghorn:  Duke faculty at Durham VAMC; completing a PhD in theology begun in PGY-4 year
Andy Nanton:  Child fellowship at Duke
Sarah Parker:  Medical Director of Carolina House (residential eating disorders program)
Sabina Rao:  Staff psychiatrist at Central Regional Hospital , Adult Admissions Unit
Maia Robison:  Child fellowship at University of Washington
Matthew Rosa:  Staff psychiatrist at St. Joseph ’s Hospital in Syracuse , NY
Damon Tweedy:  Duke faculty at Durham VA ; consultant to Duke sports medicine
Mike Washo:  Staff psychiatrist at Central Regional Hospital, Adult Drug and Alcohol Treatment Center
Christine Wilder:  NRSA post-doctoral research fellow in health services research at the Sheps Center at UNC Chapel Hill
Yuhuan Xie:  Child fellowship at UC Davis

2006
Julie Adams:  Duke faculty in inpatient and consult services; Completing MPH at UNC Chapel Hill
Developing Psychiatry track for Duke Global Health Residency
Rohan Calnaido:  MIRECC research fellow at the Durham VAMC
Joe Lee:  Child fellowship at Johns Hopkins
Simone Litsch:  Sleep medicine fellowship at University of Michigan , Ann Arbor
Margaret Maytan:  Duke faculty in psycho-oncology
Paola Mazzoni:  Child fellowship at Columbia
PJ Nicholls:  Completed Duke Medical Genomics Training Program; now Duke research faculty in William C. Wetsel’s lab working on animal models of psychiatric disease
Phil Perez:  Consult psychiatry fellowship at George Washington University + NIMH
Susanna Quasem:  Child fellowship at Duke, then clinical faculty at Vanderbilt University
Frauke Schaefer:  Religion + Health Fellowship at Duke, then private practice with returning missionaries
Ana Carla Smith:  Child fellowship at Duke, then private practice in Triangle
Sandeep Vaishnavi:  Movement disorders fellowship at Johns Hopkins
Joe Wang:  Duke-GSK psychopharmacology fellow; then Duke research faculty in anxiety disorders 

2005
Thomas Conboy:  Geriatric fellowship at Duke; then staff psychiatrist in a community addictions treatment facility in rural upstate NY, then faculty in geropsychiatry at SUNY-Buffalo
Quinne Farrington:  Staff psychiatrist at Susquehanna Health in Pennsylvania
Jonas Hannestad:  Psychopharmacology research fellowship at Yale, then faculty at Yale School of Medicine; staff psychiatrist for Latino community services
Heidi Harrom:  Geriatric fellowship at Duke; then private/community geropsychiatry practice in western North Carolina
Rosario Hidalgo:  Duke-GSK psychopharmacology fellowship, then faculty at University of South Florida School of Medicine’s Clinical Research Center in Tampa
Alyson Kuroski:  Forensic psychiatry fellowship at UNC, then Director of the UNC/Dix forensic fellowship
Anandhi Narasimhan:  Child fellowship at UCLA; now on clinical faculty at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in LA; studying broadcast journalism 
Heath Penland:  Geriatric psychiatry fellowship at Yale; staff geropsychiatrist in a community hospital in Texas ; practice includes ECT
Mike Raida:  Geriatric psychiatry fellowship at Northwestern University in Chicago ; now in community geropsychiatry practice 
Terri Randall:  Child fellowship at Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania (CHOP)
Michelle Scargle:  Child fellowship at the University of Miami ; Forensic fellowship at
Private practice in Clearwater , Florida
Catherine Soriano:  Staff psychiatrist in student mental health at UNC-Chapel Hill
Matt Soulier:  Child fellowship at MGH/McLean; then forensic fellowship at MGH in Boston  

2004
Leslie Bronner:  Research psychiatrist with Duke Cognitive Behavioral Research and Treatment Program
Sandy Carty:  Forensic fellowship at Medical College of Virginia; now in private forensic practice
Kelly Clouse:  Staff psychiatrist in LaCrosse, Wisconsin
Rob Guerrera:  Staff psychiatrist at Silver Hill Hospital in CT; 
Elizabeth Kelly Miller:  Staff psychiatrist at the Asheville , NC VAMC
Hansen Su:  Private group practice in Durham , NC
Rita Tranquilli:  Duke movement disorders fellowship, then staff psychiatrist in a Midwest hospital practice ;Williams Trost Research fellowship at Durham VAMC; then private group practice in Durham, NC
Semone West:  Child fellowship at UIC ( University of Illinois at Chicago )