Tichianaa Armah, MD

Dr. Tichianaa Armah, a Bronx, NY native graduated from Swarthmore College. She received her Medical Degree from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry home of the Biopsychosocial model. While at Yale for psychiatry residency she served as co-president of the Yale Psychiatric Residents Association and Chief Resident of the Hispanic Clinic at the Connecticut Mental Health Center in New Haven Connecticut. She received the American Psychiatric Association Minority Fellowship and was the 2012 American Orthopsychiatry, Vera Paster Award winner. Dr. Armah has made an enduring commitment to community engagement and empowering youths to pursue careers in medicine and the mental health field. Most recently she was honored by the Connecticut Psychiatric Society with the Roger Coleman Memorial Award for her exemplary devotion to patients and commitment to quality care. Her primary academic interest involves cultural humility and mental healthcare disparities.

Dr. Armah is a board certified Psychiatrist who has served as the Medical Director Behavioral Health at the Community Health Center Inc. since 2013 and is also currently Vice President for Behavioral Health and Medical Advisor for the Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Post Graduate Residency Program. CHCI founded in 1972 has become a leading independent, non-profit healthcare provider in the state of Connecticut, providing comprehensive primary care services in medicine, dentistry, and behavioral health to more than 130,000 people, with a primary commitment to underserved communities.

Dr. Armah is driven to increasing access to quality care for the most vulnerable populations.

To achieve these goals Dr. Armah is training the next generation of Mental Health Care Providers within an Integrated Model of Care, and advising on Psychiatric electronic consults from underserved rural settings. She also helped support development of a robust telepsychiatry program at CHCI. Furthermore she is tireless in her efforts to increase the number of underepresented minorities providing outstanding psychiatric care in communities where patients have not seen themselves reflected in their health care providers.

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