A Case-Based Approach to Public Psychiatry

Dr. Jeanie Tse is Chief Medical Officer at ICL, a New York City not-for-profit serving people with mental illness and developmental disabilities. She leads ICL and its partners on a number of integrated health initiatives and provides psychiatric care to children and adults in ICL's clinics, assertive community treatment teams, and diverse housing and outreach models. She also serves on the faculty of the NYU and Columbia Public Psychiatry Fellowship Programs, and is past president of the New York Chapters of the American Association of Community Psychiatrists and the American Association of Psychiatric Administrators. Since her training at McGill and Columbia, her aim has been to bridge the gap between academic psychiatry and the clinical challenges of disadvantaged communities. Dr. Serena Yuan Volpp is Director of the Public Psychiatry Fellowship at the NYU School of Medicine, where she is a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry. She graduated from Harvard/Radcliffe College before receiving her medical degree at the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine. She received a master's in public health from the University of California Berkeley and completed both her psychiatric residency and public psychiatry fellowship at Columbia University. She worked for over ten years at Bellevue Hospital prior to joining the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene in the Assisted Outpatient Treatment Program.