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Rohit Abraham MD, MPH, MAT

  • Program Director, Combined Psychiatry & Family Medicine Residency
  • Assistant Professor of Psychiatry & Family Medicine

Dr. Abraham completed his undergraduate degree in Honors Neuroscience and Applied Statistics at the University of Michigan. Prior to medical school, he also served as a 9th grade biology in Detroit Public Schools while pursuing a Master of Arts in Teaching.

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Rohit Abraham

Olusola Ajilore MD, PhD

  • Associate Head for Faculty Development
  • University of Illinois Center for Depression and Resilience (UI CDR) Professor of Psychiatry
  • Director, Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program
  • Director, Clinical Research Core/Center for Clinical and Translational Science
  • Director, Adult Neuroscience Residency Research Track
  • Co-Director, UICOM Medical Scientist Training Program
  • Department of Psychiatry
  • University of Illinois-Chicago
Dr. Ajilore's research goal is to understand the pathophysiology of major depressive disorder in the context of medical co-morbidities and late life using novel magnetic resonance imaging techniques. His group focuses on using structural and functional brain connectivity to study the brain as a network.

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Olusola Ajilore

Joseph J. Cooper MD, FANPA

  • Director, Psychiatry Residency Training Program
  • Director, Behavioral Neurology & Neuropsychiatry Fellowship
  • Vice Chair for Education, Department of Psychiatry
  • Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
  • University of Illinois Chicago
Dr. Cooper completed undergraduate studies in Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University, medical school and residency in Psychiatry at the University of Chicago, fellowship in Behavioral Neurology & Neuropsychiatry at Northwestern University, and Fellowship in Medical Education Research, Innovation, Teaching and Scholarship (MERITS) at the University of Chicago. He is a Fellow of the American Neuropsychiatric Association. From 2018-2024 he served as the Director of Medical Student Education in Psychiatry and in 2024 assumed the role of Director of the Psychiatry Residency Training Program.

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Joseph J. Cooper

Ashley Mulvihill MD

  • Assistant Professor of Clincial Psychiatry
  • Director of Integrated Women’s Mental Health-Child Psychiatry Track
  • Illinois Doc Assist Consultant
  • Associate Residency Training Director of Psychiatry
  • University of Illinois Chicago
Dr. Mulvihill is board certified in both General Psychiatry and Child/Adolescent Psychiatry. She completed her adult training and child fellowship at UIC. She stayed on at UI Health to join the faculty in 2018. Dr. Mulvihill works both in the Women’s Mental Health Program and Child Adolescent Division to expand integrative services around maternal-child mental health. She is interested in treating children, women, and families with various psychiatric issues including those related to pregnancy, postpartum, infertility, and motherhood. Dr. Mulvihill has a particular interest in working with expectant and new mothers with their children to improve family wellness and prevent adverse child experiences.

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Ashley Mulvihill

Tammy Tamayo MD, PhD

  • Clinical Assistant Professor
  • Associate Program Director, Psychiatry Residency Training Program
  • Department of Psychiatry, UIC

Dr. Tamayo returned to UIC in 2023. She completed her MD, PhD and psychiatry residency at UIC and works with Jesse Brown VA Medical center. She completed undergraduate students in Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior at the University of California, Davis.

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Tammy Tamayo

Chris Trennepohl MD, MPH

  • Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
  • Associate Program Director, Psychiatry Residency Training Program

Dr. Trennepohl received his MD and MPH from the University of North Carolina in 2021 and completed his psychiatry residency at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2025 while also serving as Chief Resident. He is currently serving as the Associate Program Director for the UIC Psychiatry Residency Program and as an attending psychiatrist in the Gender & Sexuality Clinic.

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Christopher Trennepohl

Aneet Y. Ahluwalia MD

  • Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Internal Medicine
  • Director of Psychiatry Consult Liaison Service
  • Board Certified in Psychiatry and Internal Medicine

Dr. Ahluwalia serves as director of the inpatient psychiatry consult-liaison service. His other role is as an internist providing primary care and some inpatient internal medicine coverage. His hope is to integrate medical and psychiatric care in order to improve patient outcomes

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Ahluwalia Aneet

Alexander Beard MD

  • Clincial Assistant Professor

Alexander Beard, M.D., is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Illinois Chicago. He completed his Residency training in Psychiatry at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

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Alexander Beard

Sean Blitzstein MD

  • Clinical Professor of Psychiatry,
  • Director, Psychiatry Clerkship
  • Coordinator, Psychiatry Course
  • Staff Psychiatrist, Jesse Brown VA Medical Center

Dr. Sean Blitzstein is a psychiatrist in Chicago, Illinois and is affiliated with Jesse Brown Veterans Affairs Medical Center. He received his medical degree from Sidney Kimmel Medical College and has been in practice for more than 20 years. He is one of 37 doctors at Jesse Brown Veterans Affairs Medical Center who specialize in Psychiatry.

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Sean Blitzstein

Edwin H. Cook Jr. MD

  • Earl M Bane Professor of Psychiatry
  • Associate Head, Clinical Services
  • Director, Program for Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Dr. Cook is the Director of Program for Neurodevelopmental Disorders and the Associate Head of Clinical Services in the department. Dr. Cook is board certified in both Psychiatry and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. He specializes in treating comorbid psychiatric disorders for individuals with autism spectrum disorder. Dr. Cook is also the Earl M. Bane Professor of Psychiatry.

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Edwin Cook Jr

Zvezdana Djuric-Bijedic MD

  • Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry

Jenna Duffecy PhD

  • Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
  • Department of Psychiatry, UIC
Dr. Duffecy is a Professor of Clinical Psychiatry in the Mood and Anxiety Disorders program at UIC. She serves as the director of UIC Resiliency Center for Student Wellbeing as well as the Director of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Research and Services. She specializes in providing evidence-based intervention to improve mental health and stress management with a focus on issues relevant for students, including anxiety, lifestyle changes and professional development. Much of her research focuses on how digital tools can be used to improve health and mental health.

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Jenna Duffecy

Rodney Eiger MD

  • Chief, Addiction Programs Section, Jesse Brown VAMC
  • Clinical Lead, Substance Use Disorders, Veterans Integrated Services Network 12
  • Director, Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship Program, UIC/COM Department of Psychiatry
  • Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry , UIC/COM Department of Psychiatry
Dr. Eiger received his Medical Degree from the University of Illinois and did his residency in Psychiatry at the University of Michigan. Dr. Eiger has worked in the field of addiction since 1974 in a variety of public and private settings. He’s currently the Chief, Addiction Programs, at Jesse Brown VAMC and the clinical lead for Substance Use Disorders for a network of 8 VA medical centers in the Midwest.

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Rodney Eiger

Mackenzie Fye PsyD

  • Clinical Assistant Professor
  • Department of Psychiatry, UIC

MacKenzie Fye, PsyD: I am a licensed clinical psychologist and the clinic coordinator for the Psychiatric Assessment Clinic (PAC) at the Jesse Brown VA Medical Center. Dr. Fye joined the UIC Department of Psychiatry as a Clinical Assistant Professor in 2025, providing psychotherapy supervision to psychiatry residents.  Dr.

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MacKenzie Fye

Matthew Gambino MD, PhD

  • Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
Matthew Gambino is a psychiatrist and a historian with an interest in recovery oriented care for seriously mentally ill men and women in the community. He is Chief of the Section for Recovery Services at Jesse Brown VAMC, where he oversees the Psychosocial Residential Rehabilitation Treatment Program (PRRTP), the Mental Health Intensive Case Management (MHICM) program, the Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Recovery Center (PRRC), and the VHA Vocational Rehabilitation (VHA-VR) program.

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Matthew Gambino

Angeles Gonzalez MD

  • Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry

Victoria Gotay MD

  • Attending Psychiatrist at JBVAMC
  • Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at UIC-COM
Dr. Victoria Gotay is a psychiatrist in Chicago, Illinois and is affiliated with Jesse Brown Veterans Affairs Medical Center. She received her medical degree from University of Illinois College of Medicine. She assists with the psychiatry portion of the medical student curriculum and is the advising attending for psychiatry residents and students rotating through the Mental Health Intensive Case Management (MHICM) program at the Jesse Brown VA.

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Victoria Gotay

Maria Gunaratnam MD

  • Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
  • Staff Psychiatrist at Jesse Brown VA Medical Center
Dr. Maria Gunaratnam is a psychiatrist in Chicago, Illinois and is affiliated with Jesse Brown Veterans Affairs Medical Center. She received her medical degree from UIC College of Medicine and then completed her Psychiatry Residency at UIC as well. She has been in practice for 12 years. She is one of 37 doctors at Jesse Brown Veterans Affairs Medical Center who specialize in Psychiatry.

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Brandon Hage MD, MA

  • Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
Dr. Brandon Hage (preferred pronouns: “he/him”) is Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the University of Illinois Chicago. He completed Medical School at Loyola University Chicago, Stritch School of Medicine and completed General Adult Residency and Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), Western Psychiatric Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. During his training, he also completed the Women’s Mental Health & Reproductive Psychiatry Area of Concentration, the Public Service Psychiatry Fellowship, and the Academic Administrator/Clinician Educator Track. He created a reproductive psychiatry curriculum for OBY/GYN residents at UPMC Magee Women’s Hospital and is currently working on creating a standardized, national curriculum for OB/GYN physicians through his work with the National Curriculum in Reproductive Psychiatry (NCRP). His clinical interests lie in child & adolescent psychiatry, women’s mental health including dual diagnosis treatment and trauma disorders, perinatal and postpartum psychiatry, emergency psychiatry, resident and medical student education, community psychiatry, physician well-being, racial and gender inequities in medicine, and social determinants of health.

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Brandon Hage

Jonathan Henry MD, PhD

  • Medical Director, Addictions Treatment Program, Jesse Brown VA Medical Center, Chicago, IL
  • Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Illinois Chicago

Dr. Henry is a psychiatrist in Chicago, IL.  He completed medical training at the University of Chicago, followed by residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and McLean Hospital, as well as fellowship in Addiction Psychiatry at Northwestern University.  His interests include medical education, Motivational Interviewing, and specialized psychotherapeutic interventions.

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Christopher Holden MD

  • Program Director, Addiction Medicine Fellowship
  • Director of Addiction Psychiatry
  • Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
  • Department of Psychiatry – University of Illinois College of Medicine
  • UI Health
Dr. Holden is the Director of Addiction Psychiatry. He treats a variety of psychiatric conditions, and he specializes in the treatment of patients with co-occurring psychiatric and substance use disorders. He works with patients in the outpatient mental health clinic as well as the hospital’s inpatient medical, surgical, and psychiatric units.

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Christopher Holden

Samuel Jackson MD

  • Assistant Professor at Rush, Loyola, and University of Illinois Chicago, and Chicago’s first Street Psychiatrist
  • Clinical Director of Psychiatry, Erie Family Health
Samuel Jackson, MD completed his undergrad at University of Michigan, medical school training at Central Michigan University, residency at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, and Public Psychiatry Fellowship at Columbia University. He has a particular interest in providing care to people experiencing homelessness, worked for Janian (one of the largest Street Psychiatry groups in the US), and is currently writing a book for the American Psychiatric Association on Street Psychiatry as well. He is the Clinical Director of Psychiatry at Erie Family Health (a large Chicago-based FQHC), Assistant Professor at Rush, Loyola, and University of Illinois Chicago, and Chicago’s first Street Psychiatrist.

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Samuel Jackson

Kyle J. Jennette PhD, MA

  • Clinical Neuropsychologist
  • Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Neurology & Transplant Surgery
  • University of Illinois Chicago
Dr. Jennette is Clinical Neuropsychologist and Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Neurology and Transplant Surgery at the University of Illinois Chicago College of Medicine. Dr. Jennette earned his bachelor’s degree in psychology from Flagler College, master’s degree in gerontology from the University of South Florida, and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. He completed his Clinical Psychology Internship at the University of Chicago Medical Center and Postdoctoral Fellowship in Clinical Neuropsychology at UI Health.

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Kyle Jennette

Sara Kashani MD

  • Clinical Assistant Professor
  • Department of Psychiatry, UIC
Sara Kashani, MD, PMH-C, is a board-certified and Harvard-fellowship trained reproductive psychiatrist who received her medical degree from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. She completed her general psychiatry residency at the University of Illinois Chicago. She has also completed a clinical fellowship in Women’s Mental Health and Reproductive Psychiatry at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston.

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Sara Kashani

Krishna K. Kilaru MD

  • Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
  • Associate Director of Consult/Liaison Program
Dr. Kilaru is board certified in General Psychiatry and Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry. He received his medical degree from Deccan College of Medical Sciences, completed his Psychiatry residency at Stony Brook University, and completed Consultation-Liaison fellowship at George Washington University. After fellowship, he was an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at New York University and later at the University of Pennsylvania before joining UIC. He works primarily in a consult-liaison and inpatient setting.

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Krishna K. Kilaru

Eitan Kimchi MD

  • Director, Clinician Educator Track
  • Director of Academic Initiatives
  • Visiting Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
  • University of Illinois Chicago
Dr. Kimchi is a practicing geriatric psychiatrist at the University of Illinois Medical Center where he is Co-Director of the Memory Disorders Clinic, Director of Medical Student Education in Psychiatry, and Director of Academic Initiatives in Psychiatry. He completed his residency in 2013 at the University of Maryland/Sheppard Pratt Psychiatry Residency Program and his geriatric psychiatry fellowship at Johns Hopkins University in 2014. He was on faculty at Johns Hopkins University until relocating to the Chicagoland area in 2016. Dr. Kimchi joined Rush University Medical Center from 2016 to 2022 where he served as Associate Medical Director of the Section of Geriatric Psychiatry, Medical Director of Emergency Psychiatry, and Associate Residency Training Director of Psychiatry. He joined the Department of Psychiatry at UIC in 2022. Dr. Kimchi’s clinical and research interests lie in dementia-related care, medical education, and emergency psychiatry. He has authored several textbook chapters related to geriatric psychiatry, cognitive disorders, behavioral disturbances in dementia, decision-making capacity, and emergency psychiatry. He is a member of the Alzheimer's Association Illinois Advocacy Team.

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Eitan Kimchi

Fabiolla Kopp MD

  • Clinical Assistant Professor
Dr. Fabiolla Kopp is a board certified Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation physician specialized in Brain Injury Rehabilitation Medicine.  Over the past decade, she had the privilege of leading rehabilitation programs at academic facilities at Schwab Rehabilitation Hospital in Chicago and TIRR Memorial Hermann–Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. Dr. Kopp’s clinical work spans across inpatient services, post-acute care, and outpatient settings. One of Dr. Kopp’s main areas of interest has been cognitive and behavioral changes after brain injury, leading interdisciplinary teams and families to recovery. 

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Fabiolla Kopp

Laura C. Kordon MD

  • Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry

Alex Leow MD, PhD

  • Professor in Psychiatry and Bioengineering
  • University of Illinois Chicago
Joining the University in 2009, Dr. Leow received clinical training in Psychiatry and research training in biomedical imaging, both at UCLA. Having co-authored more than 70 articles, Dr. Leow's current research interests focus on developing novel probabilistic reconstruction, tractography, and network analyses techniques for high angular resolution diffusion imaging (HARDI) and their clinical applications.

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Leow Alex

Jenifer R. Lloyd MD

  • Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
  • Medical Director, ECT Service
  • University of Illinois Chicago
Dr. Lloyd grew up in the Chicago area and studied French and Arabic at NYU. She then returned to Chicago to complete her medical and psychiatric training at UIC, where she has enjoyed learning from her patients, and working alongside colleagues who are passionate about promoting health equity in the surrounding communities. Her primary interests lie in treating severe mental illness and its frequent companion, catatonia, in underserved populations. As faculty at UIH, her main clinical activities are supervising residents on the inpatient unit and in electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). She is the Medical Director of the ECT Service. She additionally provides psychodynamic therapy supervision for PGY2s.

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Jenifer R. Lloyd

John Korpics MD

  • Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, UIC COM
  • Chief, Inpatient Psychiatry
  • Director of Inpatient Addiction Psychiatry Rotation

Ronald Moline MD

  • Lecturer in Psychiatry

Fedra Najjar MD

  • Associate Professor, Clinical Psychiatry
  • Director, Neurodevelopmental Disorder Psychopharmacology Clinic
Fedra Najjar, MD, Associate Professor of clinical psychiatry is the director of the neurodevelopmental disorder psychopharmacology clinic at University of Illinois Chicago (UIC). She is also the associate medical director of the comprehensive assessment and treatment unit, an inpatient unit at UIC treating severely mentally ill adolescents who are in state custody.

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Michael W. Naylor MD

  • Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
  • Director, Behavioral Health and Welfare Program
  • Director, Comprehensive Assessment and Response Training System
  • Director, Clinical Services in Psychopharmacology
Dr. Naylor is a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Illinois Chicago School of Medicine. He is the Director of the Behavioral Health and Welfare Program, a program formed by contract between the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) and UIC to address the mental health needs of the most severely disturbed state wards.

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Michael Naylor

Stephen Noronha MD

  • Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry

Luke Petry MD

  • Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
  • Director, TMS Service
  • Department of Psychiatry
  • University of Illinois Chicago
Dr. Petry attended Loyola Stritch School of Medicine then began residency in the UIC Psychiatry program where he was Chief Resident of Education and selected as a National Neuroscience Curriculum Initiative Scholar. He works on the inpatient med-psych unit, in the outpatient neuropsychiatry clinic, as a supervisor of medical student and resident trainees, and performs Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) procedures.

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Luke Petry

Vesna Pirec MD, PhD

Vesna Pirec

Neil H. Pliskin PhD, ABPP

  • Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Neurology
  • Director, Neurobehavior Program
  • Director, Neuropsychology Service
Dr. Pliskin is a Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Neurology with years of experience working as a neuropsychologist and directing Neuropsychology training programs. He has a special interest in the neuropsychological sequelae of medical illness. Dr. Pliskin has published in the areas of renal disease, multiple sclerosis, and dementia and is a nationally recognized expert in the area of electrical shock injuries.

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Neil Pliskin

Jason R. Soble PhD, ABPP

  • Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Neurology
  • Training Director, Clinical Neuropsychology Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
Dr. Soble is an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Neurology at the University of Illinois Chicago College of Medicine. He also is board certified in Clinical Neuropsychology by the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP) and a Fellow of the American Psychological Society (Division 40: Society for Clinical Neuropsychology). He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Psychology as well as a master’s degree and Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He completed a 1-year Clinical Psychology Internship and 2-year Postdoctoral Fellowship in Clinical Neuropsychology at the James A. Haley VA Hospital in Tampa, FL.

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Jason R. Soble

Danijela Stojanac MD

  • Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
  • Director in Women's Mental Health Division
  • Director of Women’s Mental Health Fellowship
Dr. Stojanac joined UIC in July 2016 as a psychiatrist in the Outpatient Clinic of the Women’s Mental Health Program (WMH). Since then Dr. Stojanac has been dedicated to expanding Women’s Mental Health Outpatient Clinic and rotating in coverage of the Inpatient Women’s Mental Health Unit. Dr. Stojanac has been working with the team of WMH psychiatrists on developing Two Generation Clinic (lead by Dr. Melissa Wagner PhD) where mothers and their children can receive mental health care together. Dr. Stojanac is the director in Women's Mental Health Division. Dr. Stojanac has been teaching and supervising Adult Psychiatry Residents. She received Merton Max Gill, M.D. Award (2019) presented by graduating psychiatry residents for mentorship and excellence in teaching. She serves as Director of Women’s Mental Health Fellowship since June 2017, supervising two Women’s Mental Health Fellows.

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Danijela Stojanac

Kelley A. Volpe MD

  • Assistant Clinical Professor
  • Medical Director, Pediatric Stress and Anxiety Clinic (PSADC)
  • Program Director, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship Training Program (CAP)
Dr. Volpe is the Medical Director of the Pediatric Stress and Anxiety Disorder Clinic. She is also the Program Director of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship. Dr. Volpe is interested in the diagnosis and treatment of anxiety disorders, particularly selective mutism, OCD, and posttraumatic stress disorder. She focuses on implementing evidence-based treatments for these and other anxiety disorders. In addition, she is interested in collaborating with primary care providers to disseminate high quality mental health care to in need populations with less access to child psychiatrists. She works with the Illinois DocAssist program providing education and consultation to pediatric primary care providers as well as teaching trainees within the hospital and college of medicine.

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Kelley A. Volpe

Jody Wong DO

  • Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
  • Department of Psychiatry, UIC
Dr. Wong joined the UIC Department of Psychiatry in 2023. Prior to this, she completed her Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship at Northwestern University and her General Psychiatry residency at Wayne State University. She is board certified in General Psychiatry and Addiction Psychiatry. Dr. Wong works within the Mood and Anxiety Division, but also has an interest in treating substance use disorders and dual diagnoses patients.

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Jody Wong

John Zulueta MD

  • Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
  • Director, Ambulatory Program
  • University of Illinois Chicago
Dr. Zulueta received his medical degree from Northwestern University. He completed his psychiatry residency training at UIC and stayed on to complete a fellowship in clinical informatics. He is interested in the application of new technologies and data science to the problems of psychiatry.

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John Zulueta