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
About
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.
Education & Training
The Department provides an array of educational programs and training, including University medical student education, residency and clinical fellowship training, post-doctoral research fellowship training, continuing medical education and community outreach.
Research
The Community Mental Health Research Initiative is a collaborative, trans-institutional and interdisciplinary team of researchers in Northeast Ohio. The team includes researchers in the fields of sociology, psychology, public health, psychiatry, family medicine and pharmacy practice who serve as faculty and staff at NEOMED, Kent State University, Hiram College, the University of Akron and Case Western Reserve University.
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News
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Learn MoreA bill addressing the shortage of mental health care professionals in Ohio recently received support from the Ohio Chamber of Commerce. Meredith Craig, director of healthcare policy for the chamber, […]
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Learn MoreWhen she was younger, Cecelia McGough wouldn’t talk about her hallucinations or other psychosis-like symptoms. “People would often look at me in fear,” she shared during the 2022 Drs. Fred […]
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Not even a year after graduating, Katherine Wu, M.D. (’21), M.A., is making a mark. A preliminary internal medicine resident at OhioHealth Riverside Methodist Hospital in Columbus, she recently received [...]Learn More
Contact
Lucky Tisch
Phone:330.325.6698
Email: ltisch@neomed.edu
DEPARTMENT CHAIR
Randon S. Welton, M.D.
Phone: 330.325.6691
Email: rwelton@neomed.edu
Department of Psychiatry
