Office for Residency Education
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
The Johns Hopkins Hospital
Meyer 3-181
600 N. Wolfe Street
Baltimore, MD 21287-7381COORDINATOR: Victoria Krouse
E-mail: vkrouse1@jhmi.edu
Phone: 443-287-4506
Fax: 410-955-0152
DIRECTOR OF RESIDENCY EDUCATION
John R. Lipsey, M.D. , Associate Professor
Dr. Lipsey received his B.A. from the Johns Hopkins University and his M.D. from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He completed his internship in internal medicine at the Stanford University Medical Center and returned to Johns Hopkins for his psychiatric residency, where he was chief resident. Following his fellowship training, Dr. Lipsey joined the full-time faculty at Hopkins in 1982. His clinical expertise is in the treatment of affective disorders with particular interest in the treatment of geriatric and medically complex patients. His research has focused on post-stroke mood disorders.
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF RESIDENCY EDUCATION
Karen L. Swartz, M.D., Assistant Professor
Dr. Swartz received her B.A. from Princeton University and her M.D. from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She completed her psychiatric residency at Johns Hopkins, where she served as chief resident. Dr. Swartz is now an attending psychiatrist with clinical expertise in affective disorders. Currently she is working with colleagues at Johns Hopkins to develop a school-based program to educate students, faculty and parents about teenage depression. Her other research has focused on psychiatric disorders in the general population including the study of whether affective disorders predict migraine headaches, the incidence of social phobias in the Baltimore area and the heterogeneity and course of affective disorders.
