Leadership and Teaching Faculty

Leadership The Inova-GWU Psychosomatic Medicine Fellowship is directed by Catherine C. Crone, MD, and Thomas N. Wise, MD. Dr. Crone is a fellow of the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine (APM) and current treasurer. Dr. Wise has been president of both the APM and the American Psychosomatic Society. He is associate chair of psychiatry at GWU. Both have focused much of their careers on fellowship training, serving on the APM fellowship training subcommittee and the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology’s psychosomatic medicine examination committee. Lorenzo Norris, MD, associate residency training director and director of the consultation service at GWU, is actively involved in the fellowship. He serves on the editorial board of Psychiatric Annals and is involved in the development of American Cancer Society guidelines regarding care of the cancer patient. Doctors Crone, Wise and Norris also serve on the American Psychiatric Association’s Council on psychosomatic medicine. Over 300 research articles, clinical reports, and other scholarly works have been published by this division. The three physicians are also on numerous editorial boards of peer-reviewed journals that focus upon the interface between medicine and psychiatry. Primary Faculty Catherine Crone, MD* – transplant/ GI psychiatry, psycho-oncology Thomas Wise, MD* – psycho-oncology, somatoform disorders Lorenzo Norris, MD* – (primarily at GWU) psycho-oncology, ALS Gagan Singh, MD* – general consultation psychiatry Robert Johnson, MD – primary care psychiatry Jennifer Santoro, MD* – women’s mental health  Deyadira Baez-Sierra, MD – HIV psychiatry Additional Faculty Susan Trachman, MD – forensic issues in consultation psychiatry James Griffith, MD** – neuropsychiatry and the role of spirituality Ross Silverstein, MD – psychodynamic psychiatry Navid Rashid, MD – general hospital psychiatry  Lorenzo Perkins, MD – general consultation psychiatry Michael Kronen – consultation issues in child and adolescent psychiatry Michael Sheridan, D.Sci – research issues in psychosomatic medicine Niru Jani, MD – neurology and neuropsychiatry Kathy Zaepfel, LCSW – hypnosis and relaxation therapy * denotes diplomate with added qualifications in psychosomatic medicine ** Certified in both psychiatry and neurology