Medicine

Saunders named chair of psychiatry

Dr. Erika Saunders has been named chair of the Department of Psychiatry. Saunders, who has served as interim psychiatry chair since December, is director of the Mood Disorders Program and is an associate professor of psychiatry. She also is an adjunct research investigator with the Department of Psychiatry and Depression Center at the University of Michigan. Saunders came to Penn State Hershey in 2008 as an assistant professor of psychiatry.

Saunders received her undergraduate education from the University of Michigan and her medical degree from the University of Iowa. She completed a Howard Hughes Research Fellowship at Beth Israel Hospital and Harvard Medical School and residency training in psychiatry at the University of Michigan, and she was awarded a Heinz C. Prechter Bipolar Research Fellowship

Saunders’ work has been recognized nationally, and she has been accepted to speak about her work to the Society of Biological Psychiatry, the American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology and the American Psychiatric Association. She was granted membership to the American College of Psychiatrists and is a fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.

She is active in medical student and resident education and was awarded a Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching and a Psychiatry Resident’s Teaching Award.

Dr. Erika Saunders Credit: Penn StateCreative Commons

Last Updated April 20, 2015

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