On April 24, 2014, members of the Yale Psychological Medicine Service and guests gathered together for a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the opening of the newly consolidated Psychological Medicine Services on the sixth floor of the Fitkin Building.
The renovated 10,000 square foot space provides workrooms, conference rooms, and offices for the faculty, trainees, and staff of the Behavioral Intervention Team, the Psychiatric Consult-Liaison Team, Smoking Cessation Services, and other embedded specialty programs at Yale-New Haven Hospital.
"To see this project come to fruition is truly rewarding," said William Sledge, deputy chair for clinical affairs and program development in psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine. Sledge is also the medical director of Yale-New Haven Psychiatric Hospital.
"This is the continuation of our vision to further 'move the field forward' in the area of collaborative and integrated psychiatry," said Ben Lee, director of the Psychological Medicine Service and associate professor of psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine.
The Psychological Medicine Service at Yale currently provides ten specialized inpatient and outpatient collaborative and integrated psychiatry programs at Yale-New Haven Hospital. It is also the home of the Behavioral Intervention Team, a nationally recognized proactive consultation model for the delivery of psychiatric services for inpatient medico-surgical patients.
At any given moment, there are fifteen trainees at different levels learning the management of psychiatric issues in medico-surgical patients from the Schools of Medicine and Nursing.
Funded by NIH and private foundations, several investigators are conducting cutting-edge translational research to develop novel and improved strategies to prevent or treat psychiatric conditions among medico-surgical patients.
For more information on the Yale Psychological Medicine Service, please visit the Service's new website.