Clinical Psychiatry News is pleased to announce the addition of three physicians to its editorial advisory board: Constance E. Dunlap, MD; Eva Ritvo, MD; and Linda L.M. Worley, MD.
Dr. Dunlap, a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, is a Washington Psychiatric Society representative to the American Psychiatric Association (APA) Assembly, a past president of the Washington Psychiatric Society, and clinical professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at George Washington University, Washington.
Dr. Constance E. Dunlap
She is interested in the role that “difference” – race, culture, and ethnicity – plays in interpersonal relationship and group dynamics. Dr. Dunlap practices in Washington.
Dr. Ritvo is a psychiatrist, author, television and radio personality, and founder of an international initiative – Bekindr – that seeks “to bring more kindness to the world.” She is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the APA and a member of the American College of Psychiatrists.
Dr. Eva Ritvo
Dr. Ritvo is former chair of psychiatry and behavioral medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami, and former vice chair of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the University of Miami. She practices in Miami Beach, Fla.
Dr. Worley is regional associate dean of the Northwest Arkansas Campus of the University of Arkansas Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Medicine in Fayetteville. She is a professor psychiatry, and obstetrics and gynecology at UAMS and an adjunct professor of medicine at the Vanderbilt School of Medicine in Nashville, Tenn.*
Dr. Linda Worley
There, she serves as teaching faculty in the Vanderbilt Center for Professional Health’s distressed physicians course. Dr. Worley has served as president of the Association for Academic Psychiatry, president of the Academy of Consultation Liaison Psychiatry, and in numerous roles for the APA. She considers herself a hybrid, having been born and raised in the Pacific Northwest then migrating as an adult to the U.S. heartland. Her career has been fueled by a determination to prevent and relieve suffering by creating innovative and life-changing programs.
*This story was updated 2/26/2020.