Dr. Fernando Goes, the Director of our Stanley and Elizabeth Star Precision Medicine Center of Excellence in Mood Disorders, is a psychiatrist focused on the study and treatment of severe mood disorders. As a disease-oriented clinician-scientist, his goal in leading the center is to better understand the causes, course, and treatment of severe mood disorders to facilitate the development of better treatments and implement improvements in patient care. His current research project encompasses genomic studies of mood disorders diverse populations, clinical trials of new medications, and the clinical utility of novel wearables technology to better track mood, sleep and activity. Dr. Goes directs the Bayview Mood Disorders Clinic, where he cares for patients with bipolar disorders and sees patients for consultations at the East Baltimore campus. Dr. Goes is highly rated in 5 conditions, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Bipolar Disorder (BPD), Major Depression, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), and Schizophrenia.

Teodor Postolache is a Psychiatrist in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Postolache is highly rated in 2 conditions, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), Schizophrenia, Periodontitis, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).

Joshua Chiappelli is a Psychiatrist in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Chiappelli is highly rated in 2 conditions, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Schizophrenia, Schizoaffective Disorder, Bipolar Disorder (BPD), and Major Depression. Dr. Chiappelli is currently accepting new patients.

Akira Sawa is a Psychiatrist in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Sawa is highly rated in 2 conditions, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder (BPD), Autism Spectrum Disorder, Neurofibromatosis, and Deep Brain Stimulation.

Eric Weintraub is a Psychiatrist and an Addiction Medicine provider in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Weintraub is highly rated in 1 condition, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Opioid Use Disorder, Schizophrenia, Schizoaffective Disorder, and Monkeypox. Dr. Weintraub is currently accepting new patients.

Jeffrey Lafferman is a Psychiatrist in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Lafferman is highly rated in 9 conditions, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Major Depression, Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), Bipolar Disorder (BPD), and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).

"O. Joseph (""Joe"") Bienvenu, M.D., Ph.D. is the Judy Yin Shih, PhD Professor in Anxiety Disorders at Johns Hopkins. He completed his psychiatric training at Johns Hopkins in 1996, having served as chief resident in his final year. Dr. Bienvenu joined the faculty full-time in 1999 after completing a research fellowship in psychiatric epidemiology and a doctorate through the Johns Hopkins Graduate Training Program in Clinical Investigation. His current area of particular research interest is psychiatric morbidity in critical illness survivors, particularly posttraumatic stress disorder and related conditions. Dr. Bienvenu directs the academic program for resident education in anxiety disorders, which includes the John and Mary McGlasson Anxiety Disorders Clinic, as well as the psychiatric Residents' Outpatient Continuity Clinic, and the inpatient Consultation-Liaison services at Johns Hopkins Hospital.". Dr. Bienvenu is highly rated in 8 conditions, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Delirium, and Major Depression.

Francis Mondimore is a Psychiatrist in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Mondimore is highly rated in 8 conditions, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Bipolar Disorder (BPD), Major Depression, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), and Schizophrenia.

A native of Athens, Greece, Professor Lyketsos graduated from Northwestern University with a BA in Psychology and from Washington University Medical School in St. Louis with a Medical Doctorate. He completed residency and Chief Residency in psychiatry at Johns Hopkins, as well as a fellowship in clinical epidemiology. An active clinician, teacher, and researcher, Dr. Lyketsos is a world expert in the care and treatment of patients with Alzheimer’s and related dementias (ADRD). He carried out pioneering work on the epidemiology and treatment of neuropsychiatric features of AD. His team is developing biomarkers to accelerate treatment development for AD while designing and implementing innovative clinical trials. He leads efforts to ensure the provision of state-of-the-art Dementia Care for people with dementia in the community. Dr. Lyketsos is the Elizabeth Plank Althouse Professor at Johns Hopkins University. He directs the Johns Hopkins Bayview Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, as well as the Richman Family Precision Medicine Center of Excellence in Alzheimer’s Disease and the Memory and Alzheimer’s Treatment Center. He is the recipient of multiple awards including the 2022 Argo Award for Science from the President of the Hellenic Republic. He has authored/co-authored over 450 peer-reviewed articles, chapters, commentaries, as well as five books. His work has been cited over 76,000 times with an h-index of 149. A 2021 Stanford University publication reported that he ranked #13 out of 9,246 scientists worldwide (all-time) in the field of Geriatrics. Castle-Connolly has named Dr. Lyketsos as one of America’s Top Doctors every year since 2001. A listing of Dr. Lyketsos’ publications can be found at: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/constantine.lyketsos.1/bibliography/public/. Dr. Lyketsos is highly rated in 7 conditions, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Dementia, Alzheimer's Disease, Lewy Body Dementia (LBD), Cerebellar Degeneration, and Deep Brain Stimulation.

Ramin Mojtabai is a Psychiatrist in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Mojtabai is highly rated in 5 conditions, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Schizoaffective Disorder, Bipolar Disorder (BPD), Major Depression, and Opioid Use Disorder.

Chul Kwon is a Psychiatrist and a Geriatrics provider in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Kwon is highly rated in 4 conditions, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Bipolar Disorder (BPD), Major Depression, Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), and Schizophrenia.

Marco Grados is a Psychiatrist and a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Grados is highly rated in 4 conditions, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Tourette Syndrome, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Anorexia, and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).

Dr. Potash returned to Johns Hopkins as Director of Psychiatry and Psychiatrist-in-Chief in 2017. Prior to that he was Chair and Department Executive Officer of the University of Iowa Department of Psychiatry from 2011-17. Dr. Potash graduated in 1984 from Yale College, where he majored in English. Following graduation, he served in the Peace Corps in the West African country of Senegal, and there decided to become a physician. He completed his master’s degree in public health at Johns Hopkins, focusing on epidemiology and international health. He then went on to medical school at Hopkins, medical internship at Hopkins Bayview, and a year working as a general practitioner in another West African country, Benin. He returned to do his psychiatric residency at Hopkins and served as chief resident in 1997-98. He then joined Dr. Ray DePaulo’s mood disorders program, and eventually became the program’s research director before moving to Iowa. Dr. Potash’s work has focused on investigation of the genetic and epigenetic basis of mood disorders—depression and bipolar disorder. These efforts have resulted in over 170 publications and consistent NIH funding. He has been particularly interested in the genetic basis of the psychotic forms of bipolar disorder, and in the epigenetic mechanisms through which stress plays a role in depression. Dr. Potash co-leads the Bipolar Sequencing Consortium, and is a member of the Council on Research for the American Psychiatric Association. He serves as Treasurer for the International Society for Psychiatric Genetics, and he has played a leading role in the National Network of Depression Centers. In addition to his research endeavors, Dr. Potash is also an active clinician who sees mood disorders patients in the inpatient and outpatient settings. Dr. Potash is highly rated in 3 conditions, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Bipolar Disorder (BPD), Major Depression, Schizophrenia, and Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Irving Reti, MBBS is a research psychiatrist at The Johns Hopkins University. Dr Reti heralds from Sydney, Australia where he completed medical school at the University of Sydney before coming to Johns Hopkins for psychiatry residency. After completing a post-doctoral fellowship in neuroscience, he established his own laboratory which is focused on the field of brain stimulation. He is a Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Neuroscience and is Director of The Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) Service at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. He founded The Brain Stimulation Program at Johns Hopkins in 2008 which has an active preclinical and clinical research program as well as offering specialty consultation and treatment with brain stimulation treatment modalities including transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). Clinical research focuses on TMS and its application in diverse populations including patients with traumatic brain injury. Dr Reti also directs a laboratory investigating aspects of synaptic plasticity related to brain stimulation and motivated behavior. He is interested in learning more about how ECT works and is conducting studies implicating the immediate early gene Narp in mediating the antidepressant behavioral effects of electroconvulsive seizures in mice. His other major focus is developing alternate treatments to maintenance ECT, such as deep brain stimulation, for autistic patients he has treated with severe self-injury who remain dependent on ECT to suppress this behavior. Dr. Reti is highly rated in 3 conditions, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Major Depression, Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), Bipolar Disorder (BPD), Deep Brain Stimulation, and Rhizotomy.

Eric Strain is a Psychiatrist and an Addiction Medicine provider in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Strain is highly rated in 3 conditions, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Opioid Use Disorder, Bipolar Disorder (BPD), Major Depression, and Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). Dr. Strain is currently accepting new patients.

Boglarka Szabo is a Psychiatrist in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Szabo is highly rated in 3 conditions, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are Bipolar Disorder (BPD), Schizoaffective Disorder, Schizophrenia, and Major Depression. Dr. Szabo is currently accepting new patients.

Jemima Kankam is a Psychiatrist in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Kankam is highly rated in 2 conditions, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are Bipolar Disorder (BPD), Major Depression, Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD), and Schizoaffective Disorder.

Dr. Guarda is the Stephen and Jean Robinson Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and has been the Director of the Eating Disorders Program at Johns Hopkins Hospital since 1997. She graduated from Johns Hopkins University, obtained her medical degree from the University of Maryland School of Medicine and completed a residency in Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins including an externship in eating disorders at the Maudsley Hospital in London. She is an active clinician, educator and researcher. Her clinical research interests include improving treatment outcomes and rates of meal-based weight restoration for anorexia nervosa and ARFID. She has received grant funding from both the NIH and the Klarman Family Foundation and is actively involved in neuroimaging research examining neural mechanisms of appetite dysregulation that may contribute to the driven nature of eating disorders. Dr Guarda is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, an inducted member of the Miller Coulson Academy of Clinical Excellence and has been named every year since 2009 in Castle Connolly’s “America’s Top Doctors” for eating disorders. Dr. Guarda is highly rated in 2 conditions, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are Anorexia, Bulimia, Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), and Major Depression.

Dr. Frederick Nucifora is an assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His areas of clinical expertise include adult psychiatry. Dr. Nucifora earned his medical degree from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. He completed his residency at The Johns Hopkins Hospital’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, where he also performed a fellowship in psychiatry. His research interests include the molecular and biological etiology of psychiatric illnesses, including schizophrenia and Huntington’s disease. Dr. Nucifora is highly rated in 2 conditions, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Schizophrenia, Schizoaffective Disorder, Bipolar Disorder (BPD), and Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD).

Susan Lehmann is a Psychiatrist and a Geriatrics provider in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Lehmann is highly rated in 2 conditions, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), Major Depression, Bipolar Disorder (BPD), and Schizoaffective Disorder.

Russell Margolis is a Psychiatrist in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Margolis is highly rated in 2 conditions, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Schizophrenia, Dementia, Bipolar Disorder (BPD), and Schizoaffective Disorder.

Dr. David Bond is a clinician-scientist with 20 years of experience in treating people with bipolar disorder. His main clinical interests are the diagnosis and treatment of early-stage bipolar disorder, bipolar depression, and co-occurring conditions like anxiety disorders and ADHD. He has been an investigator in numerous clinical trials investigating the effectiveness and safety of treatments for bipolar disorder. Dr. Bond co-authored the 2013, 2018, and 2021 Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments/International Society for Bipolar Disorders (CANMAT/ISBD) Guidelines for the Management of Patients with Bipolar Disorder, the most widely used treatment guidelines worldwide. Dr Bond’s research focuses on the relationship between body health and brain health, and he has conducted brain imaging studies investigating the relationships between elevated body mass index, tobacco use, and brain illness progression in bipolar disorder. Dr. Bond leads the Johns Hopkins Hospital Bipolar Disorder Clinic. Dr. Bond is highly rated in 2 conditions, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Bipolar Disorder (BPD), Anorexia, Bulimia, and Schizoaffective Disorder.

Christopher Welsh is a Psychiatrist and an Addiction Medicine provider in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Welsh is highly rated in 1 condition, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Opioid Use Disorder and Schizophrenia. Dr. Welsh is currently accepting new patients.

Graham Redgrave is a Psychiatrist in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Redgrave is highly rated in 1 condition, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Anorexia, Bulimia, and Dementia.

Karin Neufeld is a Psychiatrist in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Neufeld is highly rated in 1 condition, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are Delirium, Dementia, Alzheimer's Disease, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).