John Cahill, MD, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry, has been selected to be director of the Yale Psychiatry Residency Program.
Cahill was selected after a very competitive search process headed by a committee that considered input from inside and outside the department and Yale School of Medicine. His appointment must be approved by the Yale New Haven Health Graduate Medical Education Committee.
Cahill is well known within the Yale Department of Psychiatry as an accomplished and respected clinician, educator, and scientist. He completed his undergraduate and medical training at the University of Nottingham before earning a PhD in translational research methods in psychiatry at the University of Huddersfield.
After completing his psychiatry residency at Yale, he served as chief resident for education and completed research fellowships in psychopharmacology and in early intervention and public psychiatry.
Cahill is board certified in psychiatry, clinical informatics, and in addiction medicine. He joined the department faculty in 2015. Since joining the faculty, he has served as medical director of the Specialized Treatment for Early Psychosis (STEP) program, medical director of the Acute Services Division, and deputy medical director for informatics of the Connecticut Mental Health Center.
Cahill will replace Richard Belitsky, MD, who has served as interim program director.