Three Yale Department of Psychiatry faculty have been promoted to new leadership roles at the VA Connecticut Healthcare System in West Haven.
Brian Fuehrlein, MD, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry; Nicolás Pérez Palmer, MD, assistant professor of psychiatry; and Kirsten Wilkins, MD, professor of psychiatry, have been named to the following positions:
- Fuehrlein: Firm Director for Acute Care, which includes the PER, inpatient psychiatry, consultation-liaison psychiatry, and the Recovery Support Program. Fuehrlein is director of the VA CT Psychiatric Emergency Room
- Pérez Palmer: Firm Director for Integrated Care, which includes Primary Care-Mental Health Integration, Geropsychiatry, and the six VA Community Based Outpatient Clinics.
- Wilkins: Associate Chief of Mental Health. Wilkins is director of Medical Student Education in the Yale Department of Psychiatry and former Firm Director for Integrated Care at the VA.