Geriatric Psychiatry

The Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship is an ACGME-accredited training program for individuals who have successfully completed a four-year psychiatry residency program in the United States or Canada. At the current time, the complement for the fellowship is one position.

Applications for the academic year 2022-2023 are currently being accepted.

Applicants must complete a Northwestern University application, which can be accessed at the McGaw website. The application must include the following documents:

• Curriculum vitae
• Personal statement
• Photocopy of current state medical license
• Photocopies of original USMLE examination results, or equivalent
• Photocopy of ECFMG certificate, if applicable
• Medical school transcript and MSPE letter (sent directly from the medical school)
• Three letters of recommendation from individuals in your specialty (one from current or previous program director); must be sent directly from the individuals to the program director or program coordinator
• Photocopies of visa/citizenship papers, if applicable
• Photocopy of NPI number

Please email these documents to the program director, Danielle Anderson, MD, at danielle.anderson@nm.org.

Geriatric residents participate in supervised, collaborative, interdisciplinary clinical and didactic experiences, which provide training in the following:

• Development of diagnostic and assessment skills
• Application of biopsychosocial concepts
• Experience and knowledge of illness, prevention strategies and a wide range of treatment modalities, including neuromodulation
• Treatment of a culturally diverse population of older adults with a wide range of psychopathology in a broad range of clinical settings
• Psychological and social aspects of gerontology, including normal aging and the pathology of primary psychiatric disturbances beginning in or continuing into older age
• Psychiatric impact of acute and chronic physical illnesses
• Recognition of and negotiation of legal and ethical issues
• Evidence-based clinical decision-making
• Educational leadership

• Inpatient geropsychiatry at the Stone Institute of Psychiatry
• Outpatient geriatric psychiatry specialty clinic
• Diagnostic evaluations
• Pharmacological management
• Individual and family psychotherapy
• Mesulam Center for Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease
• Palliative care
• Consultation liaison at Northwestern Memorial Hospital
• Shirley Ryan AbilityLab
• Neuropsychology
• Electroconvulsive therapy
• Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
• Continuity Care Clinic, inpatient consult liaison and outpatient at the Jesse Brown Department of Veteran Affairs Medical Center

• Danielle Anderson, MD
• Amy Corcoran, MD
• Mehmet Dokucu, MD, PhD
• Morris Goldman, MD
• Veronika Hanko, MD
• Debra Reed, MD
• Lisa Rosenthal, MD
• Vanessa Stan, MD