Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship
Mission & Vision
This fellowship offers specialized consultation and liaison psychiatry training to provide comprehensive psychiatry care in the critical care setting, inpatient medical, obstetrical and surgical wards, rehabilitation units and ambulatory care settings.
Our program serves to develop medical leaders with expertise in the evaluation, diagnosis and treatment of patients with complex medical and psychiatric comorbidities.
Mission & Vision
This fellowship offers specialized consultation and liaison psychiatry training to provide comprehensive psychiatry care in the critical care setting, inpatient medical, obstetrical and surgical wards, rehabilitation units and ambulatory care settings.
Our program serves to develop medical leaders with expertise in the evaluation, diagnosis and treatment of patients with complex medical and psychiatric comorbidities.
Program Director’s Welcome
Program Director’s Welcome
Fellows provide specialty psychiatric care in the critical-care setting, inpatient medical, obstetrical and surgical wards and rehabilitation units, as well as at Ryder Trauma Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital. They also rotate at Sylvester Cancer Center and University of Miami hospital, providing inpatient general psychiatric consultations and psychoncology consults. Fellows have the opportunity to work in psycho-oncology and/or HIV-specialty, transplant, perinatal addiction, and human trafficking services ambulatory care settings.
Fellows are offered didactic, clinical, and research supervision by consultation-liaison psychiatry faculty. Didactic activities include weekly seminars, clinical rounds, case vignette discussions, board preparation reviews, journal club, morbidity and mortality meetings, and grand rounds. Weekly seminars are taught by core Consultation-Liaison faculty, as well as teaching faculty from other specialties at UM/Jackson Health System – including Addiction Psychiatry, Geriatric Psychiatry, Psychology, Palliative Medicine and Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. Each fellow has the opportunity to teach psychiatry residents and medical students. Fellows have access to updated online journals and opportunities to attend annual psychiatry meetings, including the annual Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry meeting. Fellows are provided with protected time to participate in scholarly activities including quality improvement projects and/or an academic research project under board-certified faculty supervision.
Jackson Memorial Hospital is a large, university-affiliated county hospital and is the perfect sponsor for your consultation-liaison psychiatry training. Fellows gain outstanding experience in the psychiatric management of a variety of diverse patient populations, through evidenced-based and patient-centered care approaches. We utilize effective liaison competencies to collaborate with primary teams and other healthcare providers.
The surroundings in which you train are also an important aspect of selecting a fellowship training program and Miami is a wonderful place to both live and work. Situated in one of the world’s premier destinations, we invite you to come see for yourself why patients, faculty and students from across the country and world are drawn to Miami and the UM/Jackson Health System.
-Lujain Alhajji, MD
Description
Fellows are offered didactic, clinical, and research supervision by consultation-liaison psychiatry faculty. Didactic activities include weekly seminars, clinical rounds, case vignette discussions, board preparation reviews, journal club, morbidity and mortality meetings, and grand rounds. Weekly seminars are taught by core Consultation-Liaison faculty, as well as teaching faculty from other specialties at UM/Jackson Health System – including Addiction Psychiatry, Geriatric Psychiatry, Psychology, Palliative Medicine and Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. Each fellow has the opportunity to teach psychiatry residents and medical students. Fellows have access to updated online journals and opportunities to attend annual psychiatry meetings, including the annual Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry meeting. Fellows are provided with protected time to participate in scholarly activities including quality improvement projects and/or an academic research project under board-certified faculty supervision.
Jackson Memorial Hospital is a large, university-affiliated county hospital and is the perfect sponsor for your consultation-liaison psychiatry training. Fellows gain outstanding experience in the psychiatric management of a variety of diverse patient populations, through evidenced-based and patient-centered care approaches. We utilize effective liaison competencies to collaborate with primary teams and other healthcare providers.
The surroundings in which you train are also an important aspect of selecting a fellowship training program and Miami is a wonderful place to both live and work. Situated in one of the world’s premier destinations, we invite you to come see for yourself why patients, faculty and students from across the country and world are drawn to Miami and the UM/Jackson Health System.
-Lujain Alhajji, MD
Fast Facts
Accreditation
Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education
Number of Fellows per Year?
3
Duration of Fellowship?
1 year
Clinical Experience
Year 1
By means of individual supervision, small-group seminars, grand rounds, didactic lectures, case conferences, as well as scholarly and research participation related to clinical material and basic sciences, we provide a comprehensive training program for consultation-liaison psychiatry.
Educational & Other Experience
Areas of subspecialty expertise training include the evaluation and treatment of: (1) transplant patients with end-stage organ disease, (2) psych-oncology patients diagnosed with cancer, (3) perinatal and postpartum patients with complex psychiatric and substance use disorders, (4) intensive care unit patients with psychopathology in the setting of severe medical illness, (5) general hospital consultation patients admitted into medical and surgical wards in need of expert psychiatric consultation, 6) comprehensive psychiatric care for patients who experienced human trafficking, and 7) multidisciplinary psychiatric care for patients with HIV.
Research
Fellows will have the opportunity to develop a research project with the assistance of the teaching faculty. The expectation is that, with mentorship from the teaching faculty, the fellow will be able to complete a research project to present at a national meeting or to submit for publication.
Your Faculty
Lujain Alhajji, MD
Assistant Professor, Clinical Psychiatry
Director, Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship Program
Zelde Espinel, MD
Assistant Professor, Clinical Psychiatry
Daniel Maass, MD
Assistant Professor, Clinical Psychiatry
Omar Munoz, MD
Assistant Professor, Clinical Psychiatry
Dominique Musselman, MD
Assistant Professor, Clinical Psychiatry
Vanessa L. Padilla, MD
Assistant Professor, Clinical Psychiatry
Mitchell K. Rovner, MD
Assistant Professor, Clinical Psychiatry
Rakesh Sharma, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
Medical Director, Inpatient General Psychiatry Consultation Service at UHealth Tower
Maria Rueda-Lara, MD
Assistant Professor, Clinical Psychiatry
Alumni Placements Include:
Citrus Health Network
Jackson Memorial Hospital
Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center
University of Miami
Talkiatry
Miami Veterans Affair Health System
Alumni Placements Include:
Citrus Health Network
Jackson Memorial Hospital
Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center
University of Miami
Talkiatry
Miami Veterans Affair Health System