Women Psychiatrists in Academia

Diversity among women in psychiatric training programs is seldom discussed and in this episode, Dr. Virani talks with two accomplished women program directors about the challenges for women in training programs. Drs. Cama and DeJong cover issues ranging from failures of well-intentioned supervisors to pregnancy to the “imposter syndrome".  Dr. Shireen Cama divides her time at Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) between being the integrated child psychiatrist working as part of the CHA Child and Adolescent Mental Health Integration (CAMHI) program and the Associate Training Director for the Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship. As a member of the CAMHI team, she acts as a consultant to family medicine and pediatric providers on questions related to diagnosis and treatment of pediatric mental health and behavioral concerns. Sandra DeJong, M.D., M.Sc., began her term as Secretary of the American Psychiatric Association at the end of the APA Annual Meeting in May 2019. Dr. DeJong is Senior Consultant to the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Training Program at Cambridge Health Alliance where she was a training director from 2004-2018. She is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and is in half-time private practice in Cambridge, MA.