The purpose of the Clinical Distinctions (CD) designation is to provide a mechanism to recognize the faculty who devote a significant amount of their time and career to providing excellence in clinical care. While the CD is not intended to compete with or replace the standard academic promotions mechanism for faculty advancement, it emphasizes the importance of clinically focused faculty in the School of Medicine (SOM). Regular faculty and Emory Specialty Associate providers who have a minimum 0.5 FTE and devote at least half their time to clinical efforts (patient care and clinical administration) are eligible for these distinctions. Adjunct faculty will only be considered for these distinctions in rare and unusual circumstances at the request of the Chair. For faculty with less clinical effort, the Chair may request an exception.
The primary criterion for advancement to higher levels of clinical distinction is excellence in clinical services, including direct patient care and clinical administration, which must be evident at each level of advancement. In addition, participation in major institutional committees that are critical to the mission of Emory SOM and Woodruff Health Sciences Center, outstanding service in a clinical administrative role (such as Service Chief), and innovation in clinical care or processes will be considered. As faculty advance through the levels of clinical distinctions, they are expected to maintain clinical excellence and demonstrate increasing service and leadership in clinical administration and policy making at clinical sites within Emory University and their broader professional communities. Faculty at each level of distinction must maintain professional standards; failure to do so may result in re-evaluation of the awarded title.
These slides provide more detailed information about the Clinical Distinctions Designation for the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.
For more detailed information about the program, see the SOM Website.
Clinical Distinctions
- Physician or Psychologist
- Senior Physician or Senior Psychologist
- Distinguished Physician or Distinguished Psychologist
- Eminent Physician or Eminent Psychologist
Committee Roster
Andrew Furman, MD, Chair
Nadine Kaslow, PhD, Senior Consultant
Patrick Amar, MD, 2022-25
Anjan Bhattacharyya, MD, 2021-24
Erica Duncan, MD, 2020-23
Erin Elliot, PhD, 2021-24
Eugene Farber, PhD, 2020-23
Chanda Graves, PhD, 2022-25
Tamara Haynes, MD, PhD, 2022-25
Grayson Norquist, MD, 2020-23
Meghna Patel, PhD, 2021-24
Jeffrey Rakofsky, MD, 2020-23
Keith Wood, PhD, 2020-23
Jennifer Wootten, MD, 2020-23
Liza Zwiebach, PhD, ABPP, 2021-24
Faculty with Clinical Distinctions
| Name | Clinical Distinction | Year Awarded |
| Patrick Amar, MD | Distinguished Physician | 2022 |
| Anjan Bhattacharrya, MD | Eminent Physician | 2021 |
| Marianne Celano, PhD, ABPP | Eminent Psychologist | 2022 |
| Melina Collins, MD | Senior Physician | 2023 |
| Robert Cotes, MD | Distinguished Physician | 2022 |
| Andrea Crowell, MD | Senior Physician | 2023 |
| Erin Elliot, PhD, ABPP | Senior Psychologist | 2021 |
| Robert Elliot, MD | Senior Physician | 2021 |
| Eugene Farber, PhD, ABPP | Eminent Psychologist | 2021 |
| Andrew Furman, MD | Eminent Physician | 2021 |
| Charles (Rickey) Gillespie, MD, PhD | Senior Physician | 2022 |
| Toby Goldsmith, MD | Distinguished Physician | 2021 |
| Alyson Goodwin, MD | Senior Physician | 2023 |
| Chandra Graves, PhD, ABPP | Distinguished Psychologist | 2022 |
| Tamara Haynes, MD, PhD | Senior Physician | 2022 |
| Adriana Hermida, MD | Eminent Physician | 2022 |
| Rachel Hershenberg, PhD | Senior Psychologist | 2023 |
| Nadine Kaslow, PhD, ABPP | Eminent Psychologist | 2021 |
| Erica Marshall-Lee, PhD, ABPP | Eminent Psychologist | 2023 |
| Meghna Patel, PhD, ABPP | Senior Psychologist | 2021 |
| Viorica Pencea, MD | Distinguished Physician | 2023 |
| Jeffrey Rakofsky, MD | Distinguished Physician | 2021 |
| Patricio Riva Posse, MD | Distinguished Physician | 2023 |
| Ann Schwartz, MD | Eminent Physician | 2022 |
| Tomina Schwenke, PhD, ABPP | Senior Psychologist | 2023 |
| Sanjay Shah, MD | Distinguished Physician | 2023 |
| DeJuan White, MD | Senior Physician | 2022 |
| Keith Wood, PhD, ABPP | Eminent Psychologist | 2021 |
| Jennifer Wootten, MD | Eminent Physician | 2021 |
| Liza Zwiebach, PhD, ABPP | Senior Psychologist | 2021 |