Talia Stewart

Talia Stewart is the second eldest of 5 siblings—Taccara, Tabitha, Tim, & Tavis—and grew up in the Bedford Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY. She attended Johns Hopkins University for undergrad, majoring in Spanish, and graduated from Dartmouth Medical School. As a young girl Talia and her eldest sister Taccara began competing in pageants, which became a family event! In her two decades of experience, Talia grew her confidence in public speaking, practiced interviewing and effective communication skills, and learned the importance of advocacy and giving back to her community. Conversely, competing with and watching other contestants showed her how lack of confidence and self image could have negative impacts on mental health, which led to her interest in body image and eating disorders. She further explored this while attending Johns Hopkins School of Public Health from where she obtained her masters degree in mental health, worked on the inpatient eating disorder unit and completed her thesis on the prevalence of marijuana depictions in popular films. Talia has varied research experiences, ranging from investigating transgender access to gynecological care in rural New Hampshire and Vermont, to publishing a systematic review determining gastrostomy tube predictors in individuals receiving free flap reconstruction after head and neck surgery. Though she initially began residency in general surgery, kismet returned her to psychiatry, where she is humbled to join the Yale PGY2 class! She is excited to explore the breadth of the field, including eating disorders, forensic psychiatry, CL, ECT and inpatient psychiatry. In her free time Talia loves distance running, spending time with her family, friends and significant other, Rainier, completing escape rooms and watching horror movies!