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Evangeline Katherine Beatty with big sister Brigitte. |
Members in the News
New Beatty Family Member Welcomed
By Kara Keuthan Beatty, MD
Resilience Health, LLC
PSV Member
Evangeline Katherine Beatty was born on October 23, 2019 at 11:39 am. She weighed 7lb. 15oz. and was 20.27 inches in length. Mom and baby are doing well. "Lina" was welcomed home by dad (Collin) and big sister (Brigitte) just in time for Halloween!
PSV Member Dr. Jose Edwin Nieves Received the 2019 Individual National Award from The Foundation for Coast Guard History
A member of the CG Aux District 5 Southern Region Division 6, Dr. Nieves completed several missions throughout the South Eastern CONUS and the Caribbean during 2018. He interviewed and recorded the experiences of Coast Guard members, reservists, auxiliarists, dependents and staff during the Catastrophic 2017 Hurricane Season impacting Texas, Puerto Rico and the United States Virgin Islands. The award was presented at McDonald Army Health Center, Fort Eustis Virginia and Coast Guard Fifth District Headquarters in Portsmouth Virginia.
Photo courtesy McDonald Army Health Center Public Affairs
Appointment of Alumnus Robert L. Findling, MD, MBA, as Chair of Psychiatry
By Joel Silverman, MD
Immediate Past Chair
Department of Psychiatry
VCU Health System
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Robert L. Findling, MD, MBA |
Dear Colleagues and Friends,
It is our great pleasure to announce the appointment of Robert L. Findling, MD, MBA, as the new chair of the VCU School of Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry. Dr. Findling comes to us from Johns Hopkins, where he currently serves as the director of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, as vice chair in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and as the Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. He is also the vice president for Psychiatry Services and Research at the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, as well as the inaugural Lead Medical Director for Integrated Behavioral Services at Johns Hopkins Medicine.
Dr. Findling attended Johns Hopkins University for his undergraduate degree in biology and, most notably thereafter, attended our medical school and graduated in the Class of 1987. Following medical school with us, he completed residency training in pediatrics, psychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry as part of the highly competitive “triple board” joint training program at Mt. Sinai in New York. In 2011, Dr. Findling also earned his Master of Business Administration degree at a program run jointly by the London School of Economics in England, New York University and Écoles des Hautes Études Commerciales de Paris in France.
Prior to his time on faculty at Johns Hopkins, Dr. Findling served as the Rocco L. Motto, MD, Chair of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and as director of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at University Hospitals of Cleveland. Dr. Findling has over 20 years of experience conducting clinical research in child, adolescent and adult psychiatry fields. He has served as principal investigator and as a coordinating principal investigator on multi-site clinical trials and longitudinal studies funded by the National Institute of Mental Health and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
Dr. Findling’s research expertise includes pediatric psychopharmacology, acute efficacy studies, long-term treatment studies, characterization of young people with mental illness and how to conduct successful clinical trials. He has been honored with numerous awards and has received both national and international recognition as a clinical investigator in mental health.
“With mental health, addictions and neurosciences being a prominent strategic focus for us, we are committed to building on our academic strengths,” said Michael Rao, PhD, President of VCU and VCU Health System. “I know that Dr. Findling, along with colleagues across the university and health system, will advance and accelerate the important work we do to improve health outcomes in the Commonwealth and beyond.”
“We are extremely pleased that this national search has brought Dr. Findling back home to his alma mater to now hold this major leadership role at our institution,” added Marsha Rappley, MD, VCU Vice President for Health Sciences and VCUHS CEO. “Dr. Findling is a remarkably accomplished colleague and an engaging leader. We look forward with great enthusiasm to his leadership in our department of Psychiatry as well as in our institution and in our community.”
Dr. Findling succeeds Dr. Joel Silverman, the departing Chair of VCU’s Department of Psychiatry. We are most grateful for Dr. Silverman’s longstanding leadership as Chair. Our sincere appreciation also goes to the search committee chairs, Dr. Gerry Moeller and Dr. Alex Valadka, along with the other members of the search committee and our VA partners.
Additionally, we are grateful for the leadership from Virginia’s Department of Medical Assistance Services and the Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services and our community mental health leaders for their collective support of this important appointment. The administrative leadership of Dr. Betsy Ripley, Ms. Dee Dee Dye and Ms. Lisa Wead was also invaluable. Finally, we greatly appreciate the contributions of the psychiatry faculty, residents and staff who participated in this process and represented their department and our institution so well in this national search.
Dr. Findling will begin his appointment January 1, 2020. Please join us in welcoming him back home to our School of Medicine and to the VCU Health System.
EVMS Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences News
By Lisa Fore-Arcand, EdD
Associate Professor and Education Coordinator
Faculty Advisor to the Psychiatry Club
Eastern Virginia Medical School
- PGY-2 Resident Joshua Moran, DO, and faculty members Gregory Briscoe, MD and Stephanie Peglow, DO published an article ‘Current Technology in Advancing Medical Education; Perspectives for Learning and Providing Care,’ in the December 2018 Journal Academic Psychiatry. Dr Moran completed his medical school training at Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine.
- Stephanie Peglow, DO, MPH was featured in a 13NewsNow talk regarding the dramatic rise in opioid deaths among the nation’s youth. View it here.
- Peglow, S. L., & Binswanger, I. A. (2018). Preventing Opioid Overdose in the Clinic and Hospital. Medical Clinics of North America, 102(4), 621-634. doi:10.1016/ j.mcna.2018.02.005.
- Response to Letter to the Editor from Dr. J. Edwin Nieves of Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla 63. Military Medicine. Read it here.
- Ryan Wade, MD was selected by the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry to receive the AAAP’s 2018 Regional Travel Scholarship, Meeting and Scientific Symposium in December.
- Stephanie Peglow, DO, MPH and Shriti Patel, MD were awarded the Faculty of the Year Award by the Psychiatry Residents for the 2018 graduation.
University of Virginia School of Medicine
From the Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia, three faculty members made the Best Doctors in America List. The faculty members are, Dr. Anita H. Clayton, Dr. Bruce J. Cohen, and Dr. Gabrielle “Posy” Marzani.
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