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Robert Rohrbaugh, MD

Professor of Psychiatry, Deputy Dean for Professionalism and Leadership; Associate Dean for Global Health Education, Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health
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Honors

  • Style Three Pin Educated Hat Streamline Icon: https://streamlinehq.com8 Yale School of Medicine Awards
  • 5 National Awards

About

Titles

Professor of Psychiatry, Deputy Dean for Professionalism and Leadership; Associate Dean for Global Health Education, Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health

Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health

Biography

A graduate of Franklin and Marshall College, Yale School of Medicine and the Yale Psychiatry residency and geriatric psychiatry fellowship programs, Throughout his career Dr. Rohrbaugh has been active in developing clinical programs that integrate medical student and residency education. He has been especially interested in teaching beginning clinicians how to listen to a patient's narrative, identify pertinent data, and use that data to develop a bio-psycho-social formulation and treatment plan. Dr. Rohrbaugh developed the VA-CT Psychiatry Primary Care Clinic and Geropsychiatry service and served as Clinical Director of VA-CT Mental Health Service Line. He served as the Clerkship Director and Director of Medical Studies for medical student education and as Associate Program Director before leaving the VA to assume the Program Director role in 2008. In 2009, Dr. Rohrbaugh was named Deputy Chair for Education and Career Development in the Department of Psychiatry. In his residency program director role, Dr. Rohrbaugh facilitated the development of a social justice and health equity track within the residency to equip psychiatrists to address health disparities as part of their clinical mission.

Dr. Rohrbaugh has worked with colleagues at Xiangya School of Medicine in Changsha, Hunan Province, PRC to develop a competency based model for post-graduate (residency) education. This model has heavily influenced the Chinese national model for residency training. He was the Founding Director of the Yale School of Medicine's Office of International Medical Student Education in 2008 and was named Associate Dean for Global Health Education. In 2015, having noted the irony that global health education is largely discussed by educators in high income countries, Dr. Rohrbaugh co-founded the Bellagio Global Health Education Initiative with an explicit goal of bringing global health education leaders from high, middle and low income countries together to improve global health education.

In 2021 Dr. Rohrbaugh became Deputy Dean for Professionalism and Leadership at Yale School of Medicine. In this role he leads a team whose mission is to improve the culture of the School by promoting professionalism, developing faculty leaders, and elevating well-being of faculty.

Appointments

Education & Training

Fellowship in Geropsychiatry
Yale University (1988)
NIMH Fellowship in Clinical Research
Yale University (1988)
Residency
Yale University (1986)
MD
Yale University (1982)
BA
Franklin and Marshall College, Biology (1978)

Research

Overview

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

Ethical Analysis; Global Health; Health Care; Internship and Residency; Medicine; Mental Health Services; Psychiatry and Psychology

Research at a Glance

Yale Co-Authors

Frequent collaborators of Robert Rohrbaugh's published research.

Publications

2023

2022

2021

2019

2017

2016

Academic Achievements & Community Involvement

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    Association of American Directors of Psychiatry Residency Training

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    Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry

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    Yale China Association

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    Health in Harmony

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    Bellagio Global Health Education Initiative

Get In Touch

Contacts

Academic Office Number
Office Fax Number
Mailing Address

Psychiatry

300 George St

New Haven, CT 06511-

United States

Administrative Support

Locations

  • Sterling Hall of Medicine

    Academic Office

    333 Cedar Street, Wing C-Wing, Fl 2nd floor, Rm C205A

    New Haven, CT 06510