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Psychiatrists

Psychiatrists are doctors of medicine who specialize in treating mental illness using the biomedical approach to mental disorders. Psychiatrists also go through training to conduct psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, and/or cognitive behavioral therapy, but it is their medical training that differentiates them from other mental health professionals. Psychiatrists earn a MD or DO after completing about four years of med school after the bachelor's degree, and then spend several more years in psychiatric practice. Psychiatrists are qualified to prescribe medication.

*Indicates doctors who provide services directly with St. Joseph Hospital and are not available for out-patient, except in follow-up care.

Mary Barr, MD Teresa Black, MD Patti Brettell, M.D
Joshua Cohen, M.D Andrea Cookson, MD Larry Freeman, MD, MFT
Edward Gayda, MD Michael Gordin, MD Susan Hakeman, MD, PysD
Norman Hale, MD James Harle, MD Danielle Kizer, MD
David Koch, MD Judith Koontz, MD Maya Koopman, MD
Henry Levine, MD Christopher Noell, MD Andrew Pauli, MD
*Constantine Rigas, MD Harsimrat Sandhu, MD Russell Sheinkopf, MD
*Gary Smith, MD James Stewart, MD *William Swanke, MD
Douglas Vaupel, MD Robert E Watson, MD  

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Updated July 2008

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