Family Medicine & Psychiatry -  Graduates

A career in Family Medicine and Psychiatry affords an innumerable amount of opportunity - whether you want to primarily do psychiatry, family medicine, or equally integrate both into your practice.

Take a look inside the world of the FMP by looking at the various endeavors of our esteemed graduates. As you will see, our talented graduates boast a diversity of unique skills and interests afforded by their engagement in combined training. 

UC FMP 2000:

Lisa Cantor-Jacobson, MD previously worked as the consultation-liason psychiatrist at the Drake Rehabilition Center in Cincinnati, OH. Other past positions have included: psychiatric consultant at long-term acute care and rehabilitation facility; nursing home psychiatrist; volunteer assistant professor of Family Medicine at University of Cincinnati.

UC FMP 2001:

Nichole Brandts, MD is currently working as an outpatient psychiatrist in private practice. Past positions have included: acute care of medical problems for homeless and uninsured mentally ill patients in inner city health clinics; psychiatric consultations and treatment of mentally ill patients in rural family practice office. Special interests include Women's Mental Health Issues.

Jennie Hahn, MD is currently employed as a phyician in a family practice in rural Kentucky which includes outpatient psychiatric care.

UC FMP 2002:

Richard Bermudes, MD is currently employed in Sacramento, CA, as a director of cognitive behavioral therapy traning for Sacramanto County Adult Mental Health Services Division and Sutter Center for Psychiatry. In addition to having completed a fellowship in cognitive therapy and cognitive therapy supervision at the Beck Institute for Cognitive Therapy and Research in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Dr. Bermudes is founder of Mindful Health Solutions, a private psychiatry group that specializes in Cogntive Behavioral Therapy. Dr. Bermudes' clinical interests include adult and adolescent mood and anxiety conditions, cognitive behavioral therapy, and education. He has authored articles on cognitive therapy techniques, the metabolic syndrome, medication associated obesity, and is the principle editor of a book titled A Clinical Guide for Managing Metabolic Abnormalities in the Psychiatrically Ill: What Psychiatrists Need to Know (2007).

Leigh Gaines, MD is currently working as the Medical Director for the Substance Abuse Rehabilitation Unit at the Cincinnati VAMC, and is also an active member of the Primary Care Mental Health Integration (PCMHI) outpatient services team. She has previously worked dividing her time as an outpatient family practice physician, an outpatient psychiatrist in community mental health center, and working part-time in the Psychiatric Emergency Services (PES) at the University of Cincinnati University Hospital.

UC FMP 2003:

Elizabeth Furbish, MD is currently working in Georgia as a staff psychiatrist in the Forensics Division at Central State Hospital's maximum security ward. Past positions have included: managing medical conditions in the chronically ill; psychiatric consultation at a rehabilitation hospital.

Dan Vogel, MD is currently working in Cincinnati, OH, as Assistant clinical professor of psychiatry and pediatrics in addition to being an inpatient Child Psychiatry attending at Cincinnati Children's Hospital. Past positions have included: attending on inpatient psychiatric unit for complex illness in adolescents at Cincinnati Children's Hospital.

UC FMP 2004:

Shay Stanford, MD is currently working in Cincinnati, OH, as assistant professor of psychiatry and family medicine and associate director of Women's Health Research Program. She also devotes a signifiant amount of time to research on fibromyalgia, providing primary care for fibromyalgia patients, and teaching in the family medicine and psychiatry departments.

Quinton Moss, MD is currently working in Cincinnati, OH, as the director of inpatient clinical psychiatry at Ft. Hamilton Hughes Hospital and assistant clinical professor of psychiatry and family medicine at the University of Cincinnati. He also participates actively in research on bipolar disorder and its metabolic complications and teaching in the family medicine and psychiatry departments. You can read more about his efforts here.

UC FMP 2006: 

Yemi Aina, MD is currently working as a staff psychiatrist at the Ft. Hood Military Base in Kileen, TX. He was previously working in Cincinnati in private practice specializing in sleep medicine after completing a Sleep Medicine Fellowship at the Medical College of Wisconsin in 2007.

Anthony Whitaker, MD, JD is currently working in Cincinnati, OH, doing forensic psychiatric consults as well as family medicine at Summit Behavioral Health Care, Cincinnati's regional long-term inpatient psychiatric hospital. He has previously worked as a staff inpatient psychiatrist at the Summit Behavioral Health Care, as well as serving in the University Hospital Psychiatry Emergency Services and at the VA Medical Center. Dr. Whitaker completed his Juris Doctorate at Temple University in 1993 and MD from Michigan State University in 2001. Following graduation from the FMP program he completed a fellowship in Forensic Psychiatry at the University of Cincinnati in 2007.

UC FMP 2007: 

Janell Lundgren, MD is currently working in Cincinnati, OH, as a staff inpatient psychiatrist at the Summit Regional Psychiatric Hospital. After graduation she completed a fellowship in Forensic psychiatry at the Mayo Clinic in 2008.

Ernesto Ortiz-Cruzado, MD is currently working in Santa Cruz, CA, dividing his time as an outpatient psychiatrist in both a community mental health center and in an outpatient family practice clinic. Past positions have included: combined outpatient psychiatry and family medicine jobs; psychiatric consultation with HIV medical team of the County of Santa Cruz.

UC FMP 2008:

Christopher White, MD, JD, FCLM is currently an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Family Medicine at the University of Cincinnati. He serves as the Medical Director for the Psychiatry Consult Service at University Hospital and also is Assistant Program Director for the combined Family Medicine & Psychiatry Residency Program. In addition to these roles, Dr. White also has a significant allocation of time to develop a research program in psychosomatic medicine through the Family Medicine research division. During his residency training he was selected as one of the NIMH Outstanding Residents, awarded a Laughlin Fellowship, and selected as a Webb Fellow based on his research interests. His special interests include areas of overlap between medicine, psychiatry, and law.

UC FMP 2009:

Laurie Carrier, MD is currently working in an underserved area of inner-city Chicago as a family medicine physician and psychiatrist in several federally-qualified health centers with large refugee and immigrant populations. She also serves as faculty in the Department of Family Medicine at Northwestern University. During her residency she traveled to over 20 countries, worked in hospitals in Africa, Palestine, and Central America, and continues to be actively involved in international and underserved health care.

Justin Hauxwell, MD is currently residing in Colorado working in a federally qualified health center working with underserved and uninsured patients in the Denver metropolitan area. His clinical duties are split equally between psychiatry and family medicine. He is also leading efforts to create a referral program for many Denver providers with patients needing psychiatric evaluation.

UC FMP 2010:

Lawrence Udom, MD, MPH completed a fellowship in Primary Care Sports Medicine at Riverside Methodist Hospital/MAX Sports Medicine in Columbus, Ohio. He is currently working at a Family Medicine practice in Beavercreek, OH as their primary Sports Medicine physician and Psychiatrist.

UC FMP 2011:

Bryan Cairns, MD is currently working in the  University of Cincinnati's Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience as an attending on the Geriatric Psychiatry Unit at Deaconess Hospital, as well as doing resident supervision. He also divides his time between working at the Psychiatric Emergency Services (PES) at the University Hospital, as well as doing primary care and psychiatry work at a local Federally-Qualified Health Center (FQHC), the Crossroad Health Center.