2025-2026 Program Chiefs

Audrey Coventry, MD

Medical School: University of Kansas School of Medicine
Residency: University of Washington Psychiatry Residency
Clinical and Research Specialties/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
Clinical and Research Specialties/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
Clinical and Research Specialties/Interests: narrative medicine, cultural psychiatry, psychotherapy, drawing, painting, nature

Chin Kuo, MD

Medical School: National Taiwan University School of Medicine
Residency: Maimondes Medical Center
Clinical and Research Specialties/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
Clinical and Research Specialties/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
Clinical and Research Specialties/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
Clinical and Research Specialties/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
Clinical and Research Specialties/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
Clinical and Research Specialties/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
Clinical and Research Specialties/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
Clinical and Research Specialties/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
Clinical and Research Specialties/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
Clinical and Research Specialties/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
Clinical and Research Specialties/Interests: Emergency psychiatry, LGBTQ mental healthcare, eating disorders, autism, psychotherapy