NEOMED’s Department of Psychiatry trains undergraduate medical students, partners with Summa Health System and Akron General Health System to offer a general psychiatry residency program, and has an affiliation with a child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship based at Akron Children’s Hospital.

The department is also home to three coordinating centers of excellence:

Coordinating Centers of Excellence

A woman talks with her mental health professional during an appointment.

Best Practices in Schizophrenia Treatment Center

Providing services to help community agencies implement and sustain treatment practices that improve the lives of people affected by schizophrenia.

Best Practices in Schizophrenia Treatment Center
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Criminal Justice Coordinating Center of Excellence

Promoting jail diversion alternatives for people with mental health disorders by encouraging the mental health and criminal justice systems to work together.

Criminal Justice Coordinating Center of Excellence
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Ohio Program for Campus Safety & Mental Health

Promoting suicide prevention, mental health awareness and stigma reduction activities at college campuses across the state of Ohio.

Ohio Program for Campus Safety & Mental Health

About our department

The Department of Psychiatry at NEOMED is based at the Rootstown campus and has a clinical presence at the hospitals, community mental health agencies and private practice offices of psychiatrists and psychologists throughout northeast Ohio.

About the Department of Psychiatry

Education & Training

The Department provides an array of undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate medical educational programs and training.

Education and training

Research

The Health Services Research Focus Area is a multidisciplinary team of researchers in the Departments of Psychiatry and Family and Community Medicine at Northeast Ohio Medical University. Our social and behavioral science faculty engage in health services and translational research to improve population and individual-level physical and mental health outcomes, improve healthcare delivery systems, and address factors that contribute to health disparities.

Health Services research