VA Connecticut Healthcare System and Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry are recruiting a Psychiatrist with experience and interest in mood disorders, psychotic disorders and other serious mental illness to serve as an attending at VA CT Healthcare System. The applicant will work with a multidisciplinary team of healthcare professionals in order to provide evaluation, consultation and treatment for patients in an outpatient setting, including opportunities to work in the Treatment Refractory Depression Clinic providing ketamine, rTMS, ECT and other cutting-edge treatments. The individual will also be responsible for teaching residents, medical students and other trainees, and will be responsible for initiating scholarly work related to teaching or research.
Applicants must be board eligible or certified in psychiatry and be legally employable. Preference will be given to applicants who have relevant clinical experience in these specific clinical areas and related disorders and a history of academic productivity including publications and/or independent funding and be in a position to initiate and produce scholarly work.
Interested applicants can submit a CV and 3 letters of recommendation to https://apply.interfolio.com/193602. Questions related to this position can be directed to Ismene Petrakis, MD Chief of Mental Health Services of VA CT Healthcare System, 950 Campbell Ave, West Haven, CT 06516.
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