• George Kolodner, MD
• Babette Wise, LICSW
• Barbara Roberts, PhD

Behavioral Medicine
This program provides outpatient cognitive-behavioral treatment of adult patients with chronic medical conditions and mood disorders. The goals of the program include:

1. coping skill development
2. maximizing quality of life with illness
3. management of grief and loss issues associated with functional changes
4. more effective management of mood symptoms which can interfere both with quality of life and effective treatment of illness

Each person is carefully evaluated to see if they are ready to engage in an approach which is generally short term, structured, collaborative, and requires the completion of between session assignments. With the patient's consent, care will also be coordinated with other members of the healthcare team.

• Carrie Holl, PsyD

Child/Adolescent Outpatient Program
This program provides evaluation and treatment for children, adolescents and their parents for problems ranging from minor adjustment disorders to severe emotional disturbances. Children are seen as outpatients for problems such as ADHD, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Depression, Anxiety Disorders, and Learning Disabilities. Georgetown Residents go to the Regional Institute for Children and Adolescents in Southern Maryland as part of their clinical work in Child Psychiatry. Their work includes the assessment of children and adolescents referred by the courts.

• Caroline Sehon, MD
• Avram Mack, MD

Eating Disorder Program
This program specializes in the evaluation and treatment of individuals older than 17 years with eating disorders. We are able to refer children and young adolescents to an Eating Disorder specialist in our Child/Adolescent Psychiatry Program. A multi-disciplinary approach includes a variety of treatment methods. Long term changes in eating behavior and in other accompanying psychological disorders are primary goals. Treatment modalities are varied to meet individual needs and include short-term psycho-educational, group therapy, and individual psychotherapy that combine psychodynamic and behavioral techniques, nutritional consultations, and psychopharmacology.

• Ellen Minerva, MD

General Adult Outpatient Program
This program offers outpatient evaluation and therapy for patients 18 years and older including individual, family and group therapy.

• Hope Grande, LICSW
• Wendy Zach, LICSW
• Ellen Minerva, MD
• Judith Kupersmith, MD

Geriatric Psychiatry Program
This program provides services for patients 65 years and older with symptoms of depression, dementia, and other psychological disorders.

• John Little, MD
• Giovanna Morena, MD

Medical Illness Program
This program specializes in the evaluation and treatment of persons with concomitant medical and psychological problems. Each person is carefully evaluated with a clinical history of medical and psychological problems. Medical charts are reviewed and the referring physician is closely consulted in order to facilitate collaborative care. The program is open to anyone with concomitant physical and emotional concerns.

• Steven Epstein, MD
• Daniel Hicks, MD

Psychooncology
This program offers adult outpatient psychiatric treatment for patients suffering from oncologic conditions. Referring physicians from the Lombardi Cancer Center are closely consulted in order to facilitate collaborative care.

• Carol Alter, MD
• Kim Davis, PhD 

Psychopharmacology Management
This program offers ongoing medications management to patients who are clinically stable in the maintenance phase of their treatment.

• Maheen Patel, MD
• Daniel Hicks, MD

Trauma and Loss Clinic
The Trauma and Loss Program will provide individual psychotherapy and psychopharmacological treatment for adults coping with single episode traumatic nd/or complex trauma, including childhood physical and sexual abuse, domestic violence, and political violence. We also plan to provide group psychotherapy for survivors of trauma.

• Janice Krupnick, Ph.D.  
• Joyce Chung, MD

Psychosomatic Medicine Psychiatry Service
This service specializes in the evaluation and treatment of hospitalized patients at GUH who have concomitant medical and psychiatric history. Medical charts are reviewed extensively and the referring physician is contacted in order to facilitate collaborative care. A psychiatric consultation may be obtained on a 24 hour basis including weekends and holidays.

• Daniel Hicks, MD
• Steve Epstein, MD
• Carol Alter, MD

Inpatient Hospitalization
The Mental Health Care Unit at GUH is a 14-bed open psychiatric unit in the general hospital. The Unit serves adult patients who have a variety of psychiatric disorders and require inpatient hospitalization. Patients are admitted on a voluntary basis and must be 18 years of age or older.

• Alan Newman, MD 
• Christopher Santangelo, MD

Psychiatric Partial Hospitalization Program
This is an intensive, short-term program designed for people with acute psychiatric symptoms who have experienced a decline in their social or occupational functioning. The primary indications for admission are prevention of an inpatient admission, shortening of an inpatient stay and facilitation of the transition back to life in the community, presence of serious, disabling symptoms, and impairment in multiple areas of daily functioning. The interdisciplinary treatment team employs a biopsychosocial approach with the aim of returning the patient to his or her optimal level of functioning. The staff strives to maintain close, collaborative relationships with referring treatment providers and to support the patient in taking an active, participatory role in the treatment process.

• John Little, MD