Jefferson Medical College
Department of Psychiatry & Human Behavior
The department is fully dedicated to carrying out the mission of Thomas Jefferson University, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, and the Jefferson Health Care Network. Our support takes the following forms:
EDUCATION: We provide medical students, residents, and fellows with a rich and rewarding educational experience as they rotate through all our clinical services: Adult (Inpatient and Outpatient); Emergency; Consultation-Liaison; Substance Abuse; Pain; Child and Adolescent; Sleep Disorders; and various specialty electives. All our residency and fellowship programs are approved by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education's Residency Review Committees. Information on our residency training program can be found on the Residency pages.
PATIENT CARE: We are dedicated to providing excellent psychiatric care to patients in the Delaware Valley area.
RESEARCH: The Department is focused on clinical research. We investigate the symptoms and treatments of various psychiatric illnesses, including Alzheimer’s disease and novel treatment modalities (MBAT-Mindfulness-based Art Therapy). Our Mood Disorders Program is conducting innovative research on the identification and treatment of the side effects of psychiatric medications. In addition, it conducts clinical trials of potential new medications for mood disorders
The department is made up of a large number of skilled physicians, psychologists, a social worker, a nurse practitioner, researchers, and dedicated support staff. Faculty and staff have family, psychiatric, and mental health specialties.
In the News
Salman Akhtar, MD, has been awarded the 2012 Sigourney Award recognizing “significant contributions to the field of psychoanalysis." Read more...
Salman Akhtar, MD, Professor of Psychiatry at Thomas Jefferson University has edited a groundbreaking new book called The African American Experience: Psychoanalytic Perspectives.
Six of our faculty were named Top Doctors of 2012 in Be Well Philly
a supplement to Philadelphia magazine.
TJU Psychiatrists honored by Philadelphia Psychiatric Society.
Rajnish Mago, MD, of the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior has been awarded the Irma Bland Award for Excellence in Teaching Residents 2011 by the American Psychiatric Association. Read more...
Two Seminal Books Published by Jefferson Faculty Member, Salman Akhtar MD
As seen in the May 2012 Issue of Philadelphia Magazine: our faculty members are named Top Docs.
Matthew Wintersteen, PhD, on USA Today, "Pedestrian Deaths by Train Remain Steady", April 2010
