Psychiatry
The proper understanding and successful treatment of psychiatric disorders is multi-dimensional, and usually requires a combination of biologic, psychological, and social approaches. Psychiatrists are physicians who diagnose and treat people with mental disorders using a variety of biological and psychosocial treatments.
Psychiatry is one of the original departments in the College of Medicine, which was founded in 1967. The Department of Psychiatry excels in enhancing behavioral health through scientific research, education, training, community leadership, and service. Our department leads the effort to understand, diagnose, treat, and prevent psychiatric disorders, to prepare future clinicians, to provide state-of-the-art care, and to give direction to community efforts to improve behavioral health.
Our faculty members are well recognized as excellent clinicians.
Of 20 psychiatrists in Tucson listed in the Best Doctors in America
(2007-2008 database), 7 are members of our department.
Our educational program is designed to teach residents the fundamental skills required for certification and practice in general psychiatry. We also actively assist residents in developing their special interests, such as child psychiatry, forensic psychiatry, geriatric psychiatry, and psychiatric research.
Psychiatry residents rotate on Neurology, Internal Medicine, and Psychiatry at the Veterans Administration Medical Center and in an inpatient psychiatry unit and psychiatry outpatient clinic that is part of University Medical Center. Residents also have an elective inpatient rotation at University Physicians Hospital, an acute care inpatient facility supporting the public mental health system in Pima County.
Our department has strong linkages to the public sector and residents are involved in residential and transitional services to the seriously mentally ill. Our department provides services designed to serve children, adolescents, families, couples, and individual adults through a variety of specialized treatment approaches, ranging from individual to group and family oriented treatments. Each program is designed to provide patient care and to advance scientific understanding of problems and treatments.
Department Head:
John Misiaszek, MD
Contact information:
Arizona Health Sciences Center
1501 N. Campbell Avenue
PO Box 245002
Tucson, Arizona 85724
Tel: 520/626-6254
Fax: 520/626-2004
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