Department of Psychiatry Faculty List
of Residency Responsibilities and Qualifications

Adrienne Adams, MD — Dr. Adams is the Director of the Child Psychiatry Fellowship Program. She is boarded in adult and child psychiatry. She leads the residents’ training during their Outpatient and Inpatient rotations in Child Psychiatry. She is one of the lead discussants during the weekly Child Psychiatry Case Conference. She serves as Backup Attending on Call for emergency child psychiatry consultations.

David Anderson, PhD — Dr. Anderson is a child psychologist that works in our child day school.  He is an expert and experienced teacher in theories of child development, has won teaching awards from the child psychiatry fellows and teaches the residents a course on child development.  He teaches the development section of our Boards Review Course.

Dan Angres, MD
Dr. Angres is the Medical Director of the Resurrection Healthcare Impaired Professionals Program. He has a national reputation in the treatment of addictions, primarily in those effecting health care professionals. He has published in the psychiatric literature on this topic. He has years of clinical experience treating patients with addiction problems. He teaches residents during their chemical dependence rotation at this program.

Sushil Bagri, MD
He is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and the Director of both of our adult inpatient units. Dr. Bagri has been practicing psychiatry and teaching at Rush for over 20 years.  His areas of expertise include inpatient and outpatient psychiatric care, with an emphasis on psychopharmacology and electro-convulsive therapy.  He has superb clinical, teaching and administrative abilities.  Dr. Bagri receives referrals of patients from many other psychiatrists requesting clinical consultation.  Dr. Bagri supervises the residents on many of their inpatients.  He has received numerous teaching awards from the residents.  He also provides teaching in the Psychopharmacology Case Conference, and lectures on ECT, Eating Disorders and Emergency Psychiatry.

Adrienne Balsam, MD
Dr. Balsam is an expert in psychopharmacology.  She provides outpatient supervision to residents on this topic.

Gail Basch, MD — Dr. Basch is the Medical Director of the Department’s Psychiatric Day Treatment Program.  She supervises the residents during their group therapy rotation in the Day Program.    She provides supervision to residents while they are on-call.  She has certification in Addiction’s Medicine and provides consultation on this aspect of psychiatric medicine. 

David Carrington, MD — Dr. Carrington is the Director of the residents’ rotation at the Cermak Health Services at the Cook County Jail.  He has added qualifications in forensic psychiatry.  He has excellent teaching and administrative skills.  He is the course Director for Forensic Psychiatry Review and Case Conference.  He is a past Director of the Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship Program. 

James Cavanaugh, MD
Dr. James Cavanaugh is a full Professor of Psychiatry and the Director of the Section of Forensics. Dr. Cavanaugh has a national reputation of expertise in forensic psychiatry.  He helped lead a forensic psychiatry fellowship program at our institution for over 20 years.  He has been a consultant in many high profile forensic psychiatry cases.  He has many years of experience as an outpatient psychiatrist.  He provides lectures in forensic psychiatry and teaches residents as an individual case supervisor.  He teaches the forensically informed clinical documentation course.  He is available for consultation for residents that have forensic psychiatric questions on their clinical cases.

Stephanie Cavanaugh, MD
Dr. Cavanaugh is a full Professor of Psychiatry and the Director of the Consult Liaison Service. She remains one of two Senior Consultants to this program. She has expertise in psychosomatics and Women’s Mental Health and has many publications in these and other areas. She teaches the residents on the Consult Liaison Service, she runs the weekly Consult Liaison Literature Seminar, and teaches the Psychosomatics Course and administrates the Systems of Psychotherapy Course. She provides individual supervision to residents.

Phil Chor, MD
Dr. Chor provides leadership as a senior attending psychiatrist in our Department.  He has served as one of the teaching attendings on the consult liaison service for many years.  He has served on numerous hospital and departmental committees.  He spends many hours each week teaching the residents on the consult liaison service.  He provides back-up supervision to residents on call, and lectures on delirium in the emergency psychiatry lecture series.

Susan Clark, MD
Dr. Clark is an attending psychiatrist that provides outpatient supervision to residents.  She has expertise in psychodynamic psychotherapy.

Henry Conroe, MD — Dr. Conroe is a psychiatrist with expertise in both psychodynamic psychotherapy and psychopharmacology.  He provides psychopharmacological care to patients in treatment with other therapists.  He has expertise in integration of psychotherapy and psychopharmacology.  He provides outpatient supervision, actively participates in the residency recruitment process and helps with the residents’ oral examinations.

Suzanne Cooperman, MD
Dr. Cooperman is an experienced general adult psychiatrist who provides supervision to residents on outpatient treatment and on call.  She helps out in the recruitment process and in the oral boards exams for residents.

Bezalel Dantz, MD—Dr. Dantz is the Director of Medical Student Education for the Department of Psychiatry. He is one of the Associate Medical Directors of the Adult Outpatient Psychiatry Clinic. He is boarded in both psychiatry and internal medicine. He works part-time for the department of internal medicine providing outpatient care. He has expertise in the interface of psychiatry and medicine and has published on this topic. He is the course instructor for the PGY-1 courses Introduction to Psychopharmacology and Motivational Interviewing. He also lectures on somatoform disorders, sexual dysfunction and migraines. He supervises all PGY-2 residents in the outpatient clinic. He received the Psychopharmacology Teacher of the Year of Award from the Residents during the 2005-2006 academic year.

Jagannath Devulapally, MD
Dr. Devulapally is the Director of the residents’ rotation in Community Psychiatry.  He also is an attending in the Women’s Treatment Research Unit.  He is the psychiatric consultant to multiple community mental health clinics and supervises the residents directly during their rotation in these clinics. He is a supervisor for the residents’ outpatient psychopharmacology research rotation at the Treatment Research Unit. His is a lecturer in the General Psychiatry Lecture Series, Cultural Psychiatry, and the System of Psychotherapy course.

Sheila Dowd, PhD – Dr. Dowd is one of the Associate Directors of Residency Training.  She helps administrate the residency program.  She leads our cognitive behavioral therapy training of our residents.  She teaches numerous courses on the subject and provides multiple hours each week of individual CBT supervision.  She trains the residents on the Structured Clinical Interview for the DSM.  She supervises residents rotating through the inpatient Clinical Research Center.  She is a member of the Residency Recruitment Committee and a standing member of the residency Education Committee.  She is also a discussant in the Psychopharmacology Case Conference.  She is a highly experienced clinical researcher and works on the clinical research team led by Philip Janicak, MD

Ozlem Dubauskas, MD – Dr. Dubauskas is board certified in adult and child psychiatry. She leads the residents’ training during their Inpatient rotation in Child Psychiatry.

Michael Easton, MD
Dr. Easton specializes in psychopharmacology and chemical dependence and has published on the topic.  He has added qualifications in Addictions Medicine.  He lectures frequently to the residents and other audiences on psychopharmacology and the treatment of addictions.  He admits and provides a significant amount of supervision to residents on the inpatient unit.  He serves as an expert consultant once a month at the psychopharmacology case conference.  He has lectured on addictions at our Boards Review Course.

Martin Fine, MD
Dr. Fine is a psychoanalyst who has taught an overview course on psychodynamic theory for a number of years.  He has expertise in self-psychology and adolescent psychiatry.  He provides individual case supervision and also volunteers his time to lead a psychiatry and film group with interested residents.

Peter Fink, MD
Dr. Fink is the Medical Director for the Child Therapeutic Day School. He is trained and board certified in Adult and Child Psychiatry and has added qualifications in forensic psychiatry. He has expertise in all of these areas. He is a supervisor of residents during their child psychiatry experiences and is available for consultation to residents with child psychiatry forensic questions.

James Fisch, MD
Dr. Fisch is a Training Analyst at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis and runs their Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Training Program.  He has lectured internationally on psychoanalysis and self-psychology.  He teaches the residents two different courses, one on psychodynamic diagnosis and the other one on psychodynamic case formulation.  He also provides individual case supervision.

Maureen Ford, PhD
Dr. Ford is a psychologist that specializes in psychodynamic group and individual therapy.  She has expertise in the treatment of adult victims of child abuse.  She teaches a course on group psychotherapy and has given lectures on treatment of adult victims of child abuse.

Leslie Gable, MD, PhD
Dr. Gable is a senior analyst at the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute.  He provides outpatient psychoanalytic case supervision to residents.

Arnold Goldberg, MD
Dr. Goldberg is the Cynthia Oudejans Harris, MD, Chaired Professor of Psychiatry. He is one of the most highly respected authorities in the field of psychoanalysis.  He is most well known for his expertise on the theory of self-psychology.  He has authored numerous papers in distinguished journals and authored and edited numerous books on psychoanalysis.  He is a former Director of Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis.  He has given the keynote address at both the American and International Psychoanalytic Association Conferences.  Dr. Goldberg is an outstanding teacher who has won numerous teaching awards from our residents.  He teaches the residents every Friday morning for two-and-one-half hours.  He has helped bring many of our distinguished teachers of psychotherapy onto our staff.  He provides outstanding leadership and mentorship to our department and residency program.  He has served as one of the residents’ integral mentors for many years.  Some of his recent publications include Moral Stealth: How Correct Behavior Insinuates Itself into Psychotherapeutic Practice, An Overview of Perverse Behavior in Perversion: Psychoanalytic Perspectives/Perspectives on Psychoanalysis, Who Owns the Countertransference, A Risk of Confidentiality and Misunderstanding Freud.

Edward Goldfarb, MD
Dr. Goldfarb is a senior and supervising analyst at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis.  He has years of clinical experience as a psychiatrist and psychoanalysis.  He provides outpatient psychodynamic supervision to the residents.

Corey Goldstein, MD — Dr. Goldstein is the Medical Director of the Treatment Research Center.  He supervises residents during their rotation in this outpatient research center.  He is an expert in psychopharmacology and has published and lectured on this topic.  He provides individual outpatient supervision.  He is a faculty mentor for our Residency Psychopharmacology Newsletter.

Christopher Grote, PhD — Dr. Grote is a nueropsychologist in the Department of Neurology and Psychology.  He teaches the PGY-2 course on psychological testing and lectures on psychological testing for our Psychiatry Boards Review Course.  Residents observe Dr. Grote or one of his associates perform psychological testing during their Geriatric Psychiatry rotation.

Ira Halper, MD
Dr. Halper is a senior psychiatrist who specializes in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.  He helped introduce CBT to our department many years ago.  He runs a weekly CBT Case Conference for interested clinicians from within the institution and from other institutions.  Residents may attend this seminar.  He provides individual supervision to residents on CBT and while they are on call.

Charles Jaffe, MD — Dr. Jaffe is a major contributor to the residents’ psychodynamic psychiatry training.  He is a Training Analyst at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis.  He has expertise and specialized training in treatment of adolescents with psychiatric problems.  He meets with the residents for 2 hours a week.  He teaches 8 different courses a year.  Some of the topics include Supportive Psychotherapy and Introduction to the Patient, Introduction to Psychotherapeutic Interviewing and Supportive Psychotherapy, Systems of Psychotherapy, Brief Dynamic Psychotherapy, Review of Resident Taped Psychodynamic Sessions, Adolescent Psychotherapy, Development and Psychological Testing, Termination Issues in Psychiatric Treatment and The Unconscious as Seen by Freud and by other Theorists.  He is a member of Psychodynamic Curriculum Committee and provides individual outpatient case supervision.  

Philip Janicak, MD
Dr. Janicak is a Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Inpatient Psychiatric Research Unit.  He is one of the most highly regarded scholars of psychopharmacology in the nation.  He has authored and edited numerous peer reviewed articles and recently published the 4th Edition of his comprehensive textbook of psychopharmacology.  He has participated in clinical research throughout his highly productive academic career in psychiatry.  He is the director the PGY-2 residents’ Advanced Psychopharmacology course which runs for the entire academic year.  He has been involved in research on the transcranial magnetic stimulation.  He has mentored countless residents and junior attendings throughout his career.  He is the editor of the International Drug Therapy Newsletter.  He supervises the residents during their inpatient rotations if they are following patients enrolled into inpatient research studies.  He conducts a patient interview, case presentation and case discussion each month for all of the residents and students rotating on the inpatient units.  He provides mentorship to residents interested in research.  He lectures on schizophrenia in our Psychiatry Boards Review Course.  He also serves as a faculty mentor and advisor for our residency psychopharmacology newsletter.

Andres Kanner, MD
Dr. Kanner is an attending with a joint appointment in Neurology and Psychiatry and he leads the Neuropsychiatry Case Conference.  He is boarded in adult and child psychiatry and neurology.  His area of expertise is the treatment of seizure disorders.  He has specific expertise in the treatment of patients with non-epileptiform seizures and has completed research and published on this topic.  He lectures in our General Psychiatry Lecture Series and our Neuropsychiatry Course.

Amanda Kleinman, M.D. — Dr. Kleinman is the Co-Director of the Adult Psychiatry Outpatient Clinic of Rush University Medical Center. In this role she provides teaching, supervision and administrative guidance to residents in the outpatient assessment and treatment of psychiatric disorders. Dr. Kleinman has expertise in the psychopharmacological and psychotherapeutic treatment of adult psychiatric disorders. She has expertise in using supportive, psychodynamic and cognitive behavioral psychotherapy to treat these conditions. She also has a special interest in Women's Mental Health. Additionally, Dr. Kleinman participates in the education of M-2 and M-3 Rush medical students.

Louis Kraus, MD
Dr. Kraus is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and the Section Chief for Child Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry.  He has expertise in the treatment of childhood autistic disorders and in forensic child psychiatry.  He lectures, supervises and instructs the residents on all of these and other child psychiatry topics.

Howard M. Kravitz, DO, MPH
Dr. Kravitz is The Stanley G. Harris Family Professor of Psychiatry and Director of CME in the Department of Psychiatry. His areas of expertise include psychiatric epidemiology and sleep medicine. He has been funded by the National Institutes of Health (National Institute of Mental Health and National Institute of Aging) for almost two decades for studies on depression, anxiety, and sleep. Currently, he is the Principal Investigator for the Rush (Chicago) site of the Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation (SWAN), a multicenter study of menopause and aging in the U.S. Among his departmental teaching activities, Dr. Kravitz supervises residents and conducts rounds on the Psychiatry Consultation-Liaison Service.

Daniel Levin, MD
Dr. Levin is the Director of the General Psychiatry Residency Program. Dr. Levin is responsible for the administration of the residency program and directs the Residency Education Committee. He teaches two courses on psychiatric interviewing including the Introduction to Psychiatric Interviewing for PGY-1s and he co-leads the Oral Boards Review Course.  He also leads a weekly seminar in emergency psychiatry.  He is a faculty discussant in the History of Psychiatry and PowerPoint Presentation Course.  He is the Director of the Medical Center’s Psychosocial Disaster Team.  He has received federal funding from HRSA to orchestrate CME training on disaster psychiatry.  He provides consultation at the psychopharmacology case conference.  He has been the Course Director for the numerous CME sponsored, Departmental Educational Conferences and founded the Department’s Chicago Psychiatry Boards Review Course.  He is an Associate Director of Department of Psychiatry Outpatient Clinic and provides outpatient supervision.  He meets weekly with the residents at their Residents’ Meeting.  He assigns all individual supervisors.  He chairs the Residency Recruitment Committee.  He serves as the Department of Psychiatry’s liaison to the Emergency Department.  He is a weekly discussant at Psychopharmacology Case Conference. 

Kenneth Levitan, MD
Dr. Levitan is a psychoanalyst who teaches a psychodynamic case conference on couple’s psychotherapy.  He is one of our most respected outpatient supervisors and has mentored countless residents over the past 15 to 20 years.  He provides 3 hours of weekly individual or couples supervision to the residents.  He lectures the residents on organizing and beginning outpatient psychotherapy.

Bonnie Litowitz, PhD
Dr. Litowitz is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry.  She has a PhD in psycholinguistics.  She is one of the most highly regarded scholars of psychoanalysis and child development in the Chicago area.  She serves as one of the Associate Editors of American Journal of Psychoanalysis.  She supervises the residents in outpatient psychotherapy and provides mentorship and guidance on our psychodynamic psychotherapy curriculum.

Shmuel Mandelbaum, MD — Dr. Mandelbaum is the Division Chair of Adult Psychiatry at the John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County.  He provides Clinical Supervision and helps administrate the PGY-2 Emergency Psychiatry Rotation at Stroger Hospital. 

Sheldon Meyers, MD—Dr. Myers is a senior psychoanalyst at the Institute for Psychoanalysis. He provides individual case supervision to residents on psychodynamic psychotherapy.

Joann Olsen, MD
Dr. Olsen is an attending outpatient supervisor.  She is highly regarded for her expertise in psychodynamic psychotherapy and the combination of psychotherapy and psychopharmacology.

Jeffrey Rado, MD – Dr. Rado is one of the Associate Directors of Residency Program.  In this role, he helps administrate and steer the development of the residency program.  He is double boarded in Psychiatry and Internal Medicine and continues to work in both of these departments at our institution.  He is the Course Director for our Chicago Psychiatry Board Review Course.  He is the Associate Editor for the International Drug Therapy Newsletter.  He is the Course Director for our 2-year General Psychiatry Lecture Series.  He is a key member of Residency Education Committee and Residency Recruitment Committee.  He is a Co-Instructor for the Oral Boards Preparation Course.  He provides numerous hours of individual case supervision to residents.  He provides supervision to residents rotating through Clinical Research Center.  He lectures in the Advanced Psychopharmacology course and he is a faculty mentor for the Department of Psychiatry Resident Monthly Psychopharmacology Newsletter. 

Roueen Rafeyan, MD — Dr. Rafeyan’s areas of clinical expertise are on the treatment of addictive disorders and psychopharmacology.  He has specialized training in the treatment of addictions.  He recently lectured on this topic at our annual Psychiatry Boards Review Course.  He also contributes to our PGY-4 course on the Introduction to Clinical Practice.

Daniel Rosenthal, MD
Dr. Rosenthal is boarded in both psychiatry and internal medicine. Dr. Rosenthal utilizes his training in both specialties to mentor residents in numerous clinical settings in our institution. He is highly regarded for his ability to serve as an excellent role model. He is one of the Associate Directors of the Outpatient Clinic and one of the attending psychiatrists on the Consult Liaison Service. He provides supervision to residents in both of these settings and also on the inpatient unit and to residents on call. Additionally, he teaches residents and provides clinical care to patients in the internal medicine inpatient and outpatient services. He is a standing member of the Residency Education and Steering Committees. He co-leads the Oral Boards Review Course for Senior Residents, is a lecturer in the General Psychiatry Lecture Series and a discussant in the History of Psychiatry and PowerPoint Presentation course.

Bernard Rubin, MD — Dr. Rubin is a Training Analyst for the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis.  He is an expert in psychiatric ethics, psychoanalysis, and forensic psychiatry.  He has published on these topics.  He helped write the American Psychoanalytic Associations Ethics Guidelines.  He teaches our Introduction to Psychiatric Ethics Course.

William Scheftner, MD
Dr. Scheftner is the Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and an Associate Professor of Psychiatry.  He has ultimate responsibility for the activities in the Department of Psychiatry.  Dr. Scheftner’s credentials include decades of clinical inpatient and outpatient psychiatric care, significant amounts of research and administrative experience.  He is recognized as a leading psychopharmacologist.  He has received NIMH funding for research on the study of mood disorders.  He is currently working on a genetics study of these disorders.  He is heavily involved in residency education.  He is seen as a mentor for residents interested in both clinical psychiatry and psychiatric research.  He provides individual supervision to residents caring for inpatients and outpatients.  He teaches courses on psychopathology for PGY-1s, co-leads the Chairman’s Literature Seminar, serves as a guest consultant at the psychopharmacology case conference, and teaches the residents about ECT, epidemiology, genetics, and the treatment of schizophrenia and mood disorders. 

Allen Siegel, MD
Dr. Siegel is a widely recognized expert in self-psychology and psychoanalysis.  He has lectured internationally on these topics.  He teaches an introductory course on psychodynamic psychotherapy to our PGY-1s and provides individual case supervision.

Hollie Sobel, PhD
Dr. Sobel is a child psychologist in the Department.  She provides testing and treatment to children in the outpatient and inpatient settings and in the therapeutic child day school.  She lectures the residents on psychological testing for children.

Christine Sterkel, MD
Dr. Sterkel is a psychoanalyst with special interests in adolescent psychotherapy.  She provides individual outpatient supervision.

Jeff Stern, PhD
Dr. Stern is a psychoanalyst who has lectured on many different analytic topics nationally and internationally.  He provides individual outpatient supervision and facilitates a psychodynamic discussion group of residents and faculty that attend presentations of Shakespearean Plays at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater or discussions of feature films.  He is also actively involved in our psychodynamic psychotherapy curriculum committee.

Carl Wahlstrom, MD
He one of the Associate Directors of the Marshall Field IV Outpatient Psychiatry Clinic and provides on-site supervision in the clinic.  He supervises residents in their Psychopharmacology and Intake Clinics.  Additionally, he provides a number of hours of individual supervision to the residents.  He has added qualifications in forensic psychiatry and provides consultation to residents and attending psychiatrists on forensic questions and lectures the residents on these topics.  

Jeff Watts, MD
Dr. Watts is the Psychiatric Medical Director at the CORE Center associated with Stroger Hospital of Cook County.  The Core Center is a large outpatient clinic that specializes in the care of patients with HIV.  Dr. Watts specializes in the care of HIV patients with psychiatric disorders.  He provides supervision to the residents when they rotate during their PGY-2, in the HIV and Psychiatry Walk-in Clinic located at the Core Center.  He also lectures the residents on the psychiatric manifestations of HIV.   He is actively involved in clinical psychiatric research for patients with HIV and co-morbid psychiatric conditions.  He is highly regarded by the residents for his outstanding teaching in both the clinical and class settings.

John Zajecka, MD
Dr. Zajecka is the Director of the Women’s Board Treatment Research Unit and an Associate Professor of Psychiatry.  He has published numerous articles and given countless lectures around the world on psychopharmacological treatment of psychiatric disorders.  He teaches the residents who rotate on the treatment research unit.  He is an outstanding lecturer and teaches the residents psychopharmacology in the General Psychiatry Lecture Series and lectures on mood disorders in our annual Chicago Psychiatry Boards Review Course.