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Consultation- Liaison Psychiatry Fellow
Yale University
Onyi Okeke, MD recently graduated from Consultation-Liaison (C-L) Psychiatry Fellowship at Yale University. During her fellowship training, she was accepted into the Connecticut State Medical Society’s Young Physician Leadership Curriculum which provides physicians with tools to influence practice and policy development. She completed her first three years of general psychiatry residency training at Georgetown University. She was awarded a Clinical Research Fellowship at the National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH) for her 4th year of residency. At NIMH she collaborated with members of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease to launch, "A Longitudinal Study of COVID-19 Sequelae and Immunity". NIMH's contribution is to elucidate the neuropsychiatric consequences of surviving COVID-19. Dr. Okeke completed her undergraduate and medical school training at Rutgers. As an undergraduate and medical student, she mentored and tutored historically underserved and underrepresented students pursuing careers in the STEM fields. She also volunteered at a medical mission health fair in Nigeria, to teach community members how to manage chronic medical problems. Dr. Okeke’s experience in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry has given her specialty training in multi-disciplinary communication, psychoeducation, collaboration, and advocacy. She is pursuing a subsequent fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry to further build the skills required to address the communication gap between PCPs, families, community members, and psychiatrists. Her career mission is to improve access to high-quality mental health care and reduce behavioral health disparities, across the life span, through effective systems based practice.
