At this year's All-Ohio Institute on Community Psychiatry, attendees will hear from Recovery Resources Medical Director Dr. Kathleen Clegg, M.D.

Dr. Clegg became the Medical Director at Recovery Resources in March 2014, but is not new to us. She has been seeing clients and supervising psychiatry residents at Recovery Resources since 1994 as part of the Public Academic Liaison Program, a collaboration of University Hospitals Case Medical Center and the ADAMHS Board.

Dr. Clegg is a full-time faculty member of the Department of Psychiatry at University Hospitals Case Medical Center where she has held the positions of Director of Public and Community Psychiatry Program since 2008, Director of Medical Student Education in Psychiatry since 1999 and Director of the Public Academic Liaison Program since 1996. 

She has been an Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine since 2006. In addition, she is a faculty member at the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland. Dr. Clegg is board certified in psychiatry and addiction psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and has served as an examiner for the ABPN for more than ten years. 

Dr. Clegg is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, a member of the American College of Psychiatrists and of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry. She has more than twenty years of experience in community mental health centers in Cuyahoga County. Particular areas of interest include integrated behavioral and physical health care, medical student and resident education, disaster psychiatry and the area of compassion fatigue and self-care for caregivers.

The focus of this year's state conference will address the impact of the State of Ohio's behavioral health redesign on the clinical care being delivered by community mental health providers to consumers of service.

Learn more about the conference and register here.