Adventist Behavioral Health – A Proud Academic Partner with Georgetown University Hospital Department of Psychiatry

Training: Year 1

In the first year of training, residents will:

• Follow patients in both the child and adolescent inpatient and partial hospitalization programs.
• Gain experience in treating acutely ill children and adolescents as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Treat chronically ill patients in Adventist Behavioral Health Rockville's Residential Treatment Center.
• Provide psychiatric consultation to medically ill patients and work in sub-specialty clinics including eating disorders, psycho-oncology, developmental pediatrics, autism and normal development.
• Perform long-term psychotherapy and medication management outpatient work at both Georgetown University Hospital and the Reginald S. Lourie Center for Infants and Young Children (the Lourie Center).

Training: Year 2

In the second year of training, the residents will:

• Participate in an in-depth school consultation experience; including rotations at the Lourie Center's therapeutic nursery and non-public elementary school, Adventist Behavioral Health's non-public school - The Ridge School of Montgomery County, and schools that have specialized educational programs for learning disorders, developmental disabilities and autism spectrum disorders. 
• Complete a comprehensive forensic psychiatry rotation, co-lead intensive outpatient adolescent chemical dependency groups and be a team member of both the Before and After School Program and the Early Head Start Program at the Lourie Center.

Faculty & Staff

Child & Adolescent Psychiatrists
	Lisa M. Cullins, M.D. Program Director, Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Residency Training Program, Adventist Behavioral Health/Georgetown University Hospital Director, Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry at Adventist Behavioral Health Rockville Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Georgetown University School of Medicine
	Peter Levine, M.D., M.M.M. Executive Medical Director, Adventist Behavioral Health Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Georgetown University School of Medicine
	Michelle Graves Seelman, M.D. Medical Director, Children’s Inpatient Unit and Partial Hospitalization Programs at Adventist Behavioral Health Rockville Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Georgetown University School of Medicine
	James Herrera, M.D. Medical Director, the Reginald S. Lourie Center for Infants and Young Children - a member of Adventist Behavioral Health and an affiliate of Adventist HealthCare Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Georgetown University School of Medicine
	Adebowale Popoola, M.D. Medical Director, Adolescent Inpatient Unit at Adventist Behavioral Health Rockville
Georgetown University Hospital Faculty
Steven A. Epstein, MD Professor and Chair, Department of Psychiatry, Georgetown University Hospital and School of Medicine
Matthew Biel, M.D., M.Sc. Assistant Professor Director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Georgetown University Hospital Director of the Pediatric Psychosomatic Medicine program, Georgetown University Hospital
Avram Mack, M.D. Associate Professor Director of Medical Student Education and clerkship in the Department of Psychiatry
Robyn Wechsler, M.D. Assistant Professor Clinical care provider, Georgetown University Hospital Department of Psychiatry's outpatient child/adolescent program Co-director of first year medical school interviewing courses
Yasmin Jilla, M.D. Clinical care provider for Georgetown University Hospital Department of Psychiatry's outpatient child/adolescent program Psychiatric services, Georgetown University Hospital Department of Pediatrics, Kids Mobile Medical Van