Raymond Young, MD, FACLP
Associate Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Program Director, Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship
Division Chief of Psychiatric Consultation-Liaison Services, Emory Healthcare
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Dr. Raymond Young is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Emory University. He is the Division Chief of Psychiatric Consultation Liaison Services for Emory Healthcare. In his role Dr. Young is responsible for development and expansion of psychiatric consultation liaison services for Emory Healthcare.
Along with his position as Division Chief of Psychiatric Consultation Liaison Services for Emory Healthcare, Dr. Young is the Program Director for Emory Healthcare’s Consultation Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship Program. His clinical interests include telemedicine, geriatrics, organ transplantation, and functional neurological disorders. Dr. Young is a Fellow of Emory’s Woodruff Leadership Academy and a Fellow of the Academy of Consultation Liaison Psychiatry.
Dr. Young joined Emory’s Department of Psychiatry in August of 2003. He received his medical degree from the Medical College of Ohio in 1998 and completed a combined Internal Medicine-Psychiatry Residency at Rush Presbyterian St. Luke’s Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. He is board certified in Psychiatry with added qualifications in Consultation Liaison Psychiatry.
Wendy Baer, MD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Medical Director of Psychiatric Oncology, Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University
Vice Chair for Wellness, Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory University
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Dr. Wendy Baer is Assistant Professor holding joint appointments in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and the Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology at Emory University School of Medicine. Dr. Baer serves as Director of Psychiatric Oncology at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, and also serves as Vice Chair for Wellness in the Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology.
In her work at Winship Cancer Institute, Dr. Baer helps patients and their families deal with the stress of receiving a cancer diagnosis and subsequent treatment. As a Psychiatrist she has expertise in treating clinical depression and anxiety both with medications and psychotherapy to help people manage emotions, behaviors and relationships. The fundamental goal of Dr. Baer's practice is to promote wellness and maximize patients' quality of life as much as possible. She believes strongly in the team approach to patient care and collaborates regularly with patients, doctors, nurses and social workers.
Dr. Baer attended medical school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she graduated with honors. From UNC she went to the University of Pennsylvania where she completed her residency in Psychiatry and served as the Chief Resident in her senior year. Prior to moving to Atlanta, Dr Baer worked in with patients dealing with cancer at the Swedish Cancer Institute in Seattle, WA.
Margaret Goracy, MD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Staff Psychiatrist, Trauma Recovery Program, Atlanta VA Medical Center
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Dr. Goracy is a Staff Psychiatrist within the Atlanta VA’s Consultation-Liaison Service and the Trauma Recovery Program. She is also an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Emory University School of Medicine. In her role, Dr. Goracy psychiatrically evaluates patients on inpatient medical units and in the VA’s PTSD clinic, and also teaches fellows, residents, and medical students.
Her clinical interests include functional neurological disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder, delirium, personality disorders, trainee education, and telepsychiatry.
Dr Goracy joined the Atlanta VA’s Behavioral Services Department in August 2016 after completing the Psychosomatic Medicine Fellowship at Emory University School of Medicine. She graduated from Columbia University where she double majored in Economics and French & Romance Philology. After University, she completed a Post-Baccalaureate Pre-Medical program at the Rutgers University School of Medicine from which she received her medical degree in 2011. Dr. Goracy completed Psychiatry Residency and served as Chief Resident at Mount Sinai/SLR in NYC. She is board certified in Psychiatry and board-eligible in Consultation Liaison Psychiatry.
Ann Schwartz, MD
Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Director, Psychiatry Residency Education
Director, Consultation-Liaison Service, Grady Hospital
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Ann Schwartz, MD, is the Director of Residency Education in the Department of Psychiatry. In this administrative role, she oversees the overall education of the psychiatry residents in the program, which provides both excellent clinical training as well as opportunities to develop as an educator and researcher.
Dr. Schwartz’s main clinical responsibilities are on the Consultation-Liaison (C/L) Service at Grady Memorial Hospital, where she serves as the Director of the service. This is one of the busiest, highest acuity C/L programs in the country. In this role, Dr. Schwartz is actively involved in teaching to psychiatric residents and fellows, as well as medical students.
Dr. Schwartz’s academic interests include consultation-liaison psychiatry, education and professionalism.
Sanjay Sharma, MD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Site Supervisor, Grady IDP Clinic
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Dr. Sharma completed both his undergraduate work and medical school at Emory. He went on to complete his general psychiatry residency as well as a consultation-liaison psychiatry fellowship in the Emory Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, joining the Department faculty upon finishing his training. Since completing his training, Dr. Sharma has primarily worked at the Grady Infectious Disease Program (IDP), where he serves as the Associate Director of the Center for Well Being taking care of persons living with HIV/AIDS and co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders.
Bojan Slavnic, DO
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Chief of Psychiatry, Emory John's Creek Hospital
Medical Director of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Services, Emory John's Creek Hospital
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Dr. Bojan Slavnic completed the Emory CLP Fellowship program in 2022 and accepted a position with Emory University School of Medicine as an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. He is the Chief of Psychiatry at EJCH and serves as Medical Director of the CLP service at EJCH. He is involved in teaching general psychiatry residents and CLP fellows. Dr. Slavnic is board certified in general psychiatry and approved for the upcoming CLP fellowship boards. He maintains clinical interests in disorders involving psychomotor impairments such as catatonia, delirium and frontal-lobe syndromes along with substance use and related disorders. Dr. Slavnic also holds interest in exploring how different CLP service models could be implemented within a large health system.
David Thylur, MD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Residency Education Site Liaison, Grady Hospital
Attending Psychiatrist, Consultation-Liaison Service, Grady Hospital
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In addition to his role as an attending psychiatrist on the Consultation-Liaison Service at Grady Memorial Hospital, Dr. Thylur serves as the clinical site liaison for the residency program. He is passionate about improving medical education by using active learning methods and near-peer teaching to enhance learner engagement. His clinical interests include catatonia, severe mental illness and health equity. He hopes to improve access to interventional psychiatry treatments for the Grady patient population and will serve as the Director for the forthcoming Grady Center for Interventional Psychiatry, which will provide ECT and other neuromodulating treatments.
Dr. Thylur completed his psychiatry residency training at Emory and was a trainee in the residency program’s NIH-funded Clinical Scientist Training Program. He completed medical school at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, where he was a Dean’s Research Scholar. His research area focuses on the role adaptive immunity plays in the pathogenesis of severe mental illness.
Charlotte Van Hale, MD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences/Internal Medicine
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Dr. Charlotte Van Hale is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Internal Medicine at Emory University. She works at Emory University Hospital - Midtown, Emory University Hospital and the Emory Brain Health Center (Adult Psychiatry Outpatient Clinic). She completed internal medicine residency at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, DC, and psychiatry residency at Emory University. She completed the four-year core program through the Emory University Psychoanalytic Institute (EUPI) and is working toward obtaining a certificate in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy by completing supervised control cases through EUPI. Dr. Van Hale’s interests include psychiatric and medical overlaps, women’s mental health/peripartum psychiatry, psychoanalytic psychotherapy, wellness/ lifestyle medicine and teaching. She holds board certifications by the American Board of Internal Medicine (2019) and the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (2022).