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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

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

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

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

Graciela Bernal

  • Graduate Medical Education Specialist