2025-2026 Program Chiefs
Audrey Coventry, MD
Medical School: University of Kansas School of Medicine
Residency: University of Washington Psychiatry Residency
Interests: Inpatient and consult settings, underserved and global health communities
Andrew Wingerson, MD, MBA
Medical School: Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California
Residency: University of Washington Psychiatry Residency
Interests: leadership, developing an interest in the care of young to very young patients as well as perinatal mental health for mothers
Second Year Fellows
Tammy Hua, MD
Medical School: Northwestern University-The Feinberg School of Medicine
Residency: University of Illinois Chicago
Interests: narrative medicine, cultural psychiatry, psychotherapy, drawing, painting, nature
Chin Kuo, MD
Medical School: National Taiwan University School of Medicine
Residency: Maimondes Medical Center
Interests: psychotherapy (psychodynamic and other modalities such as CBT and DBT), Asian (Chinese) mental health, LGBTQ mental health, mood disorders, transitional age
Ching-Fang Sun, MD
Medical School: China Medical University College of Medicine
Residency: Virginia Tech Carilion Psychiatry Residency
Interests: research/academic activities, psychoanalysis/psychodynamic psychotherapy, dialectical behavioral therapy
Katherine Tran, MD
Medical School: University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
Residency: University of Washington Psychiatry Residency
Interests: integrated mental health care (primary care and school settings); mood, anxiety, and trauma disorders; community and behavioral health interventions (particularly evaluand effectiveness of such interventions and learning how to apply this evidence to larger-scale systems).
First Year Fellows
Nishitha “Nisha” Depa, MD
Medical School: St. George’s University School of Medicine
Residency: Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
Interests: Mental health advocacy and policy, Medical education, Public psychiatry, Global health and cultural psychiatry, Medical leadership
Sharmin Kamrun, MD, MBBS
Medical School: Dhaka Medical College and Hospital
Residency: Harlem Hospital Center
Interests: Leadership, research and academic activities, outpatient care, consultation-liaison, first- episode psychosis, psychotherapy (including psychodynamic, play therapy, and DBT), interventional psychiatry, neuromodulation techniques
Joseph Keller, MD, PhD, MPH, MS
Medical School: Ohio State University College of Medicine
Residency: Western Michigan University Homer Stryker, MD School of Medicine
Interests: Family and Cultural Psychiatry, addiction, and advocacy by applying public health concepts through the public sector and organizations like the APA to effect policy
Synthia Lay, MD
Medical School: Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California
Residency: Kaweah Health
Interests: LGBTQ mental health, AAPI mental health, trauma, medical education, and eating disorders
Violeta Osegueda, MD, MS, MA
Medical School: University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine
Residency: Greater Los Angeles VA – UCLA
Interests: Community psychiatry, Latinx mental health, SUD
Shamanthika “Sham” Shelkay, MD
Medical School: Ohio State University College of Medicine
Residency: Western Michigan University Homer Stryker, MD School of Medicine
Interests: Eating disorders and immigrant mental health
Misha Sims, MD
Medical School: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine
Residency: Ohio State University
Interests: Consult-liaison psychiatry, early interventions in psychosis, collaborative and community-based care, and eating disorders
Jordan Vajda, MD, MPH, MA
Medical School: Ohio State University College of Medicine
Residency: Northwestern University
Interests: Emergency psychiatry, LGBTQ mental healthcare, eating disorders, autism, psychotherapy