Kurt Koches, Administrative Director

Mayada Akil, MD

Carol Alter, MD

Matthew Biel, MD, MSc

Joyce Y. Chung, MD

Joyce Y. Chung, MD received her BS and medical degrees from Northwestern University. She completed her psychiatric residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and then a research fellowship in medical anthropology at Harvard Medical School. Her research interests include the study of sociocultural barriers to mental health care, treatment interventions for mental health problems in minority populations, ethnographic/qualitative research methods, and patient-provider discourse and communication. She is the recipient of several research grants.

Dr. Chung has also been active in the area of HIV psychiatry through her clinical practice, educational lectures and published articles about psychiatric complications associated with HIV/AIDS. She helped formulate and was the chief writer for the American Psychiatric Association's Practice Guidelines for the Treatment of Patients with HIV/AIDS. During her eleven-year affiliation with Georgetown, Dr. Chung has served as chief of the Consultation-Liaison service at the Washington VA and as medical director of the Mental Health Care Unit at Georgetown University Hospital. She is a member of the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine, American Anthropological Association and Alpha Omega Alpha.

Thomas Cummings, Jr., MD

Mary Ann Dutton, PhD

Mary Ann Dutton, PhD, is a clinical psychologist who has specialized in the area of intimate partner violence and other forms of interpersonal violence over the past 23 years. Dr. Dutton is active as a researcher, consultant, educator, and forensic expert. She is professor in the Department of Psychiatry, Georgetown University where she is currently involved in research focusing on interpersonal trauma and low-income and minority women's health and mental health issues. She is Principal Investigator on several federally-funded studies focusing on longitudinal patterns of coping, health outcomes, revictimization, and coercive control among women who have been in recent violent and abusive relationships. She is also involved in several other grants focused on the traumatic experiences of violence and abuse.

Dr. Dutton is working to develop community-based, low-cost, accessible and culturally competent interventions for such traumatic experiences. Dr. Dutton has trained audiences of lawyers, judges, advocates, and health professionals concerning physical violence and sexual assault, both nationally and internationally. Her workshops and lectures have focused on understanding the dynamics, traumatic impact, and interventions.  Dr. Dutton has published numerous articles, book chapters and books.

Steven A. Epstein, MD

Bonnie L. Green, PhD

Professor of Psychiatry, and Director of Research and Trauma Studies in the Department of Psychiatry.  She was recently appointed as Associate Dean for Faculty Development at Georgetown University School of Medicine. She received her BA, MA, and PhD at the University of Cincinnati, where she was formerly Professor of Psychiatry at UC Medical School. She has studied the consequences of traumatic events, including disasters and war, for several decades. Her recent research focus is the mental health needs of poor women with trauma histories who receive their health care in public sector settings, with an emphasis on how trauma history affects relationships with providers and experiences in the health care system.

She is involved in treatment studies for depression and PTSD in this population, and she is developing educational and coping interventions for traumatized women in primary care. Dr. Green is past Editor of the Journal of Traumatic Stress, and past President of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. She has two forthcoming edited books, one entitled Trauma Interventions in War and Peace: Prevention Practice, and Policy, with colleagues at ISTSS and the United Nations, and one on Trauma and Health: Physical Health Consequences of Extreme Stress, with Paula Schnurr.

James F. Herrera, MD

Dr. Herrera is the Medical Director of the Parent-Child Outpatient Services at the Reginald S. Lourie Center for Infants and Young Children. He provides clinical care for the outpatient clinic and supervision for the staff as well as consultation to the Therapeutic Nursery Program (TNP) for children ages 3–5 and the Lourie Center School for children ages 5–11. Dr. Herrera will be supervising Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Residents as they rotate through the outpatient clinic, TNP, Lourie Center School and Early Head Start Programs. He also provides psychiatric consultations and staff supervision for The Foundations Schools, a system of special educations schools that span grades 1st through 12th. Dr. Herrera has a private practice in Virginia.

Dr. Herrera received his BA from the University of Virginia and graduated from Howard College of Medicine with Alpha Omega Alpha honors. He received his general psychiatry training at the Harvard Longwood Adult Psychiatry Residency Program and was a child and adolescent psychiatry fellow at the Children's National Medical Center. Dr. Herrera is board certified in General Psychiatry and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

Daniel W. Hicks, MD

Yasmin Jilla, MD

Stacey Kaltman, PhD

Judith Kupersmith, MD

Avram Mack, MD

Alan Newman, MD

Lawrence Park, MD

Anne Ruminjo, MD, MPH

Michelle Graves Seelman, MD

Dr. Seelman supervises fellows during the Child Inpatient and Child Partial Hospitalization rotations at Adventist Hospital.

Dr. Seelman received her Medical Degree from the George Washington University School of Medicine in 2000. She then completed her Internship in Pediatrics at Walter Reed Army Hospital and the National Naval Medical Center. After serving on active duty as a United States Navy Flight Surgeon from 2001–2004, Dr. Seelman returned to residency in General Psychiatry at George Washington University. She went on to complete a Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship at the University of Maryland/Sheppard Pratt Program. Dr. Seelman is board certified in General Psychiatry and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

Dr. Seelman worked as an attending physician in the Psychiatric Emergency Services Department supervising residents as a Clinical Instructor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Maryland. She has worked as a Psychiatric Consultant to the Foundation School of Montgomery County. Dr. Seelman currently directs the Child Inpatient and Child Partial Hospitalization Programs at Adventist Hospital.

Wendy Zack, LICSW