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Whether you are headed straight into your career or are bound for fellowship, training at the University of Maryland / Sheppard Pratt Psychiatry Residency Training Program will prepare you to excel as a clinician and psychiatrist.

Residents graduating from our program boast a 100% general boards pass rate and typically have their choice of top fellowship programs.

Around 65% of our residents elect to pursue fellowship-level training and many chose to attend our own fellowship programs

Fellowships offered through the University of Maryland Medical System include:

Recent Graduates

2022

  • Greg Barber – Completing psychoanalytic training at the Washington Baltimore Center of Psychoanalysis; opening a private practice in Montgomery County and becoming involved in psychedelic research at Sheppard Pratt Health System
  • Brendan Bui – Sleep Medicine Fellowship, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
  • Maureen Cassady – Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship, Brigham and Women's Hospital
  • James Comotto – Staff at LifeStance Health in Claymont, Delaware; opening a psychotherapy private practice
  • Rachel Dillinger – Staff at LifeStance Health in King of Prussia, PA and at Council for Relationships in Philadelphia, PA
  • Eric Goldwaser – Staff at Weill Cornell Medicine / New York Presbyterian
  • Joan Han – Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University
  • Matthew Lotz – Staff at Sinai Hospital in Baltimore; opening a private practice
  • Ashley Malka – Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship, Yale University
  • Angeline Pham – Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship, Yale University
  • Jennifer Reid – Career in patient safety and health care quality improvement
  • Daniela Sampaio – Faculty of the University of Maryland School of Medicine
  • Sarah van Remmen – Faculty of the University of Maryland School of Medicine
  • Samantha Vanderslice – Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship, Brown University

2021

  • Raina Aggarwal – Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship, Yale University
  • Marissa Beal – Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University
  • Lauren Evans – Staff of the Baltimore City Central Booking and Intake Center
  • Julie Fields – Faculty of the University of Maryland School of Medicine
  • Mark Kvarta – Faculty of the University of Maryland School of Medicine
  • Michael Levy – Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University
  • Amanpreet Mashiana – Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, University of California, Davis
  • Jamie Spitzer – Staff of Healthcare for the Homeless in Baltimore
  • Michael Stauber – Faculty, Ohio State University in Columbus
  • Matthew Van Winkle – Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship, University of Maryland

2020

  • Danae DiRocco – Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship, University of Maryland
  • Mariam Faris – Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship, Georgetown University
  • Emily Haas – Sheppard Pratt Health System
  • Kayia Jones – Women's Mental Health Fellowship, McLean Hospital, Massachusetts
  • Patrick Jung – University of Maryland School of Medicine faculty
  • David Mancini – Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship, Yale University
  • Olga Ponomareva - Neuropsychiatry Translational Fellowship at the VA Boston Healthcare System in collaboration with McLean Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts
  • Avinash Ramprashad – Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship, University of Maryland
  • Christopher Reid – Healthy Foundations Group, Bethesda, Maryland
  • Dileep Sreedharan – Correctional Psychiatry Staff at the Washington State Penitentiary in Washington
  • Laya Varghese – Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Philadelphia
  • Aaron Winkler – Student Mental Health Fellowship, Stanford University, California
  • Jennifer Yoon – Faculty at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

2019

  • Viviana Alvarez-Toro – Forensic Fellowship trained from Yale; Now an inpatient attending at Saint Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington, DC. Associate Program Director for the forensic fellowship for St Elizabeth's Hospital.
  • Brian Benjamin – previously working at Springfield Hospital Center; has recently moved to California
  • Benjamin Ehrenreich – Attending at the RETREAT at Sheppard Pratt
  • Andrea Foye-Tranchitella – Springfield Hospital Center, Unit Director and Attending Psychiatrist
  • Keith Gallagher – Assistant Professor at Yale
  • Albert Nguyen – 2nd year of Child and Adolescent Fellowship at University of Maryland
  • Shapir Rosenberg – Completed Palliative Care Fellowship at USF; Palliative Care physician in New York
  • Kathryn Skimming – Part time at New York University as a Clinical Instructor in Consult Liaison Psychiatry. Part time in her private forensic psychiatry practice and part time doing forensic evaluations at the Queens County Forensic Psychiatry Court Clinic
  • Elise Turner – Outpatient Psychiatrist at Gladstone Psychiatry and Wellness
  • Shane Verhoef – Outpatient Attending at Salt Lake City Veteran Administration Hospital
  • Cameron Williams – Attending at the RETREAT at Sheppard Pratt
  • Jana Elliker – Outpatient Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at The Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters in Norfolk, VA.

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