Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior

Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship

The Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship provides a robust educational experience across a variety of inpatient and outpatient settings, with the goal of preparing our fellows to be leaders in the field.

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Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship

The Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship provides a robust educational experience across a variety of inpatient and outpatient settings, with the goal of preparing our fellows to be leaders in the field.

NOTE: We are sorry to report that we are not recruiting to the Brown Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship for Academic Year 2025-26 due to an unexpected change in external funding streams. We are actively engaged in, and very hopeful of, securing new funding support; however, these efforts are off-cycle with the AY 2025-26 recruitment calendar. 

Thank you for your interest in our program. We would be very happy to speak with any candidates who are interested in our fellowship program in Academic Year 2026-27 and beyond or interested in consultation-liaison clinical work here at Brown and Lifespan.

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About Us

Our fellows join the consultation liaison services at Rhode Island Hospital (RIH) and The Miriam Hospital (TMH), gaining experience at both a large level one trauma/burn center and an academic community hospital. Our program faculty have expertise in diverse areas including Psycho-Oncology, Transplant Psychiatry, HIV, Neurocognitive Disorders, Women’s Mental Health, Functional Neurologic Disorders (PNES), Neuropsychiatry, Neuromodulation, Sleep, Addiction, and Integrated Care.

Fellows participate in daily multidisciplinary team rounds that include The Warren Alpert Medical School students, experienced nurse practitioners, substance use disorder trained social workers, and residents in General Psychiatry, Neurology, Internal Medicine and our Triple Board Program. Fellows receive individualized teaching in both formal didactic and bedside settings with our core faculty. They will participate in a quality improvement project, consultation liaison grand rounds, M&M meetings for general psychiatry, and have the opportunity to teach in both formal and informal settings.

Contact Us

Ms. Ema Costa
Program Coordinator
(401) 455-6421

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Colin J. Harrington, MD, FANPA, FAPM, DFAPA​
Program Director, Professor of Psychiatry and Medicine
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Christina Scully, MD
Associate Program Director, Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Medical Science 
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Faculty

Training Sites

Rhode Island Hospital (RIH) and The Miriam Hospital (TMH) are the primary medical-surgical, clinical, and training sites of the Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship at The Warren Alpert Medical School. 

Rhode Island Hospital

Rhode Island Hospital is a 719-bed general medical hospital and a major teaching setting for The Warren Alpert Medical School. The Department of Psychiatry — comprised of inpatient, outpatient, emergency, partial hospital, and consultation psychiatry divisions — has well-developed programs emphasizing the interface of psychiatry with other medical specialties.

The Miriam Hospital

The Miriam Hospital is a 247-bed general medical-surgical and specialty service academic community hospital with high volume emergency department, medical, critical care, and outpatient services. The Miriam Hospital is also home to our Geriatric Psychiatry clinical and fellowship programs.

Lifespan Clinics

Lifespan, one of the primary academic health systems affiliated with The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, provides patient-centered psychiatric services at clinics across Rhode Island including primary care, bariatric surgery, HIV, oncology, renal transplant, women's medicine, weight loss, pain management, neurocognitive disorders, and homeless health.

Academics

Fellows spend the majority of their time on the Rhode Island Hospital Inpatient Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Service with additional rotations at The Miriam Hospital scheduled across the year.

  Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
8 a.m.-noon Wards

Wards

 Wards Didactics/
Optional Ambulatory
Elective		 Psycho-Oncology
Noon-1 p.m.          
1-5 p.m. Wards Wards Wards Wards Wards

Notes:

  1. Vacation time will be a total of four weeks to be taken on request of the fellow and after approval by the site director and program directors.
  2. The ambulatory/outpatient experience will account for approximately 10 percent of the first six months and approximately 20 percent of the latter six months of the academic year and will consist of one to two weekly half-day clinics throughout the year. We may consider three- to six-month blocks to allow for exposure to more specialties. Available experiences include Hematology-Oncology, Renal Transplant, Cognitive Disorders, HIV, Women’s Medicine Mental Health, and Neuropsychiatry clinics.
  3. Didactics, conferences, and other educational opportunities will be provided and included in the workday variably, some required (R) and others optional (O), and include, but are not limited to: Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Didactics (R), Medicine Grand Rounds (O), Neurology Grand Rounds (O), Psychiatry Grand Rounds (R), Geriatric Medicine Didactics (O), Neurology Noon Conference (O), and the Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Case Conference (R). A number of our Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry didactics are held together with fellowships in Geriatric Medicine, Geriatric Psychiatry, and Palliative Care. 

Program Handbook

Rhode Island Hospital and The Miriam Hospital Inpatient Consultation Sites

Overview/Description

The Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Service at Rhode Island Hospital constitutes the core fellow training experience during the fellowship year, and is where fellows spend the majority of their time. At Rhode Island Hospital, a level-one trauma and burn center, fellows learn to perform psychiatric consultation to medical-surgical patients and services including: internal medicine, hematology/oncology, physical medicine and rehabilitation, trauma/burns, neurology, neurosurgery, complex orthopedics, and various medical and surgical intensive care units.

General Information

  • Chief of Service: Colin Harrington, MD
  • Contact: Colin Harrington, MD
  • Service Administrator: Karen Sousa 444-5480
  • Fellowship Coordinator: Ema Costa 455-6421
  • Faculty: Colin Harrington, MD, Christina Scully, MD, Timothy Steinhoff, MD, Dylan Hershkowitz, MD, Seth Clark, MD (addiction medicine)

See handbook for a list of program skills and competencies.

Overview/Description

Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry at The Miriam Hospital, an academic community hospital, constitutes an important fellow training experience. There, the fellow spends four months over the academic year performing psychiatric consultation to medical-surgical patients with a focus on ICU, Emergency Psychiatry, and Geriatric Psychiatry settings. The Miriam Hospital consult service offers a robust caseload of patients with comorbid HIV, Hepatitis C, and Hematologic/Oncologic illness. As the site of our Geriatric Psychiatry Clinical and Fellowship programs, this rotation offers a unique focus on geriatric neuropsychiatry. 

General Information

  • Chief of Service: Jeffrey Burock, MD
  • Contact: Jeffrey Burock, MD
  • Fellowship Coordinator: Ema Costa 455-6421
  • Faculty: Jeffrey Burock, MD, Barbara Ruf, MD, Laura Stanton, MD

See handbook for a list of program skills and competencies.

Rhode Island Hospital and The Miriam Hospital Ambulatory Consultation Sites

Overview/Description

Psycho-Oncology at the Lifespan Cancer Center offers a year-long longitudinal outpatient experience for the fellow. At the Cancer Center, fellows gain experience in the evaluation and management of psychiatric and neuropsychiatric illness associated with, and specific to, multiple types of cancer and their treatments.

Fellows learn to utilize psychotherapeutic and psychopharmacologic therapies for patients as they adjust to cancer diagnoses and contend with the neuropsychiatric issues associated with complex surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation. The rotation is well integrated with robust social work, spiritual, and palliative care services.

General Information

  • Chief of Service: Timothy Steinhoff, MD
  • Contact: Timothy Steinhoff, MD
  • Service Administrator: Timothy Steinhoff, MD
  • Fellowship Coordinator: Ema Costa 455-6421
  • Faculty: Timothy Steinhoff, MD, Dylan Hershkowitz, MD, Jody Underwood, MD, Laura Stanton, MD, Emily Murphy, MD

See handbook for a list of program skills and competencies.

Overview/Description

The HIV Psychiatry ambulatory rotation offers a 3-month longitudinal experience in neuropsychiatric management of patients with HIV. The HIV Psychiatry clinic is co-located at the Lifespan Immunology Center and is staffed by several social workers, an LICSW, and both psychiatric and addiction services. In this setting fellows explore the neuropsychiatric and medical complications of HIV infection and treat commonly occurring psychiatric illnesses associated with HIV. This is a unique integrated care setting that makes a difference in a historically underserved clinical population.


General Information

  • Contact: Christina Scully, MD; Andrew Martina, MD
  • Service Administrator: Christina Scully, MD
  • Fellowship Coordinator: Ema Costa 455-6421
  • Faculty: Christina Scully, MD, Andrew Martina, MD

Overview/Description

The Transplant Psychiatry ambulatory rotation offers a 3-month longitudinal outpatient experience for the Fellow. During this rotation, the Fellow will gain experience conducting both donor and recipient evaluations and participating in multidisciplinary transplant team meetings to discuss our complex cases. This is an opportunity to learn about pre- and post- transplant psychiatric diagnostic issues, psychosocial screening/instruments, pharmacologic considerations in end organ illnesses, drug-drug interactions unique to this clinical population, and neuropsychiatric side effects of immunosuppressive agents.


General Information

 

  • Chief of Service: Christina Scully, MD
  • Contact: Christina Scully, MD
  • Service Administrator: Christina Scully, MD
  • Fellowship Coordinator: Ema Costa 455-6421
  • Faculty: Christina Scully, MD

Application Process

NOTE: We are sorry to report that we are not recruiting to the Brown Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship for Academic Year 2025-26 due to an unexpected change in external funding streams. We are actively engaged in, and very hopeful of, securing new funding support; however, these efforts are off-cycle with the AY 2025-26 recruitment calendar. 

Thank you for your interest in our program. We would be very happy to speak with any candidates who are interested in our fellowship program in Academic Year 2026-27 and beyond or interested in consultation-liaison clinical work here at Brown and Lifespan.

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Applicants must have satisfactorily completed (or be pending graduation from) either an ACGME-accredited general psychiatry program or a general psychiatry program in Canada accredited by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.

The Brown CL Psychiatry program will not be accepting applications via ERAS for this upcoming application cycle. Please see below for application submission. We plan to accept applications via the ERAS platform for the following application cycle. 

Documentation Required:  Please scan and email the following documents to Program Coordinator Ema Costa.

  1. Completed CL Psych Program Application
  2. Copy of your current curriculum vitae
  3. Personal statement
  4. Copy of your current medical license
  5. Copy of your ECFMG or FLEX certificate (if applicable)
  6. Copy of your Visa and/or U.S. citizenship (passport)
  7. Medical Transcript (Dean’s Office)
  8. USMLE Scores
  9. Letter of recommendation from the Residency Training Program Director where you completed your general psychiatry training
  10. Two to three additional letters of recommendation

All letters of recommendation should be addressed to the Program Director, Colin J. Harrington, MD, and then scanned and emailed to Program Coordinator Ema Costa.

Resources

Accreditation, Boards, and Licensing

Lifespan Organization

Professional Organizations

State of Rhode Island