Psychiatry residents, Dr. Jacob Steinle and Dr. Suraj Shankar recently published their research on trends in hallucinogen.-related admissions following psychedelic decriminalization in JAMA Network Open.

Under the mentorship of Dr. Kevin Xu (Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Public Health), Drs. Steinle and Shankar analyzed 7 years’ worth of national administrative data in the US, finding that the decriminalization of psychedelics has not coincided in measurable increases in hallucinogen-related hospitalizations.

Clinical Training

Jump to: Rotations | Call schedule Excellent clinical skills are essential for each resident no matter whether he or she aspires towards private practice, public psychiatry, or academic positions involving clinical education or basic/clinical research. A major emphasis of our program is intensive clinical training underscoring diagnostic skills, somatic treatments including psychopharmacology, ECT, rTMS, ketamine/s-ketamine, experimental […]

History Timeline

The WashU Department of Psychiatry history timeline was created with the support of the Department of Psychiatry in the fall of 2007 by Dr. Eugene Rubin, Vice Chair for Education. This project is intended to help preserve some of our Department’s history as well as provide a longitudinal perspective of the Department for those interested […]