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The UNC Department of Psychiatry is committed to excellence in our missions of clinical service, teaching, and research, and we are national leaders in each of these domains.
12/08/2025
New UNC-GIFTS Partnership Brings Mental Health Services to Granville County Students
The UNC Department of Psychiatry’s IMPACTT-NC program (Improving Adolescent Child health Through Telepsychiatry in NC) and UNC Children’s is proud to announce the launch of UNC-GIFTS — a collaborative partnership with Granville County Public Schools and Granville Vance Public Health — aimed at addressing the mental health needs of students in Granville County.
Chapel Hill, N.C. — August 12, 2025 — The UNC Department of Psychiatry’s IMPACTT-NC program (Improving Adolescent Child health Through Telepsychiatry in NC) and UNC Children’s is proud to announce the launch of UNC-GIFTS — a collaborative partnership with Granville County Public Schools an...
12/08/2025
Pre-trauma insomnia and posttraumatic alcohol and cannabis use in the AURORA observational cohort study of trauma survivors, PI Samuel McLean, MD, MPH
Insomnia symptoms may be an important malleable risk factor for heavy alcohol and cannabis use and binge drinking after trauma. Further research is needed to explore the effectiveness of insomnia interventions to mitigate post-trauma substance use and to better understand the complex relationships between sleep, trauma, PTSD, and substance use.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40582081/
12/08/2025
Shanika Paylor, LCMHC is a clinician with the UNC FIT Wellness Program, where she provides counseling and integrative wellness support to formerly incarcerated North Carolinians transitioning back into their communities. With over a decade of experience in mental health care, Shanika draws from a strong background in counseling, complex care coordination, substance use treatment and recovery, and professional training and education.
11/08/2025
We are recruiting parents and their adolescent child (ages 12-14) to participate in the Pathways to Adolescent Success Study (PASS) at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. The focus of this study is on anxiety and adolescent development so we can better understand how the brains of adolescents with symptoms of anxiety develop over time. Our ultimate goal is to learn how to develop more effective adolescent treatments.
Participants will be asked to complete 3 visits one year apart. Each visit has an in-person session which lasts for about 4.5 hours, and a virtual session which lasts for about 2 hours.
Participation is completely voluntary. If you agree to participate, your child will complete questionnaires about their behavior and lifestyle, tasks to measure cognitive functioning, MRI scanning of the brain while performing cognitive tasks, and a public speaking task while heart rate, electrical activity in the skin, and saliva are being monitored for stress responses. You will also be asked to complete some surveys.
Parents will be paid $75 per visit plus travel and parking, as needed. Youth will receive gifts cards amounting to $150 per visit plus $30 for a concluding online survey, totaling $480.
Please call us at 919-966-9849 or through our website at uncpass@unc.edu referring to this study (PASS) in the subject line. The Institutional Review Board (IRB) can be contacted at 919-966-3113 or IRB_subjects@unc.edu and refer to protocol #23-1572.
Dr. Saha provides both inpatient care with the Addiction Medicine Consult Service and outpatient services at the STAR Clinic. She is also deeply committed to training and mentoring medical students, residents, and fellows within the Addiction Medicine program.
The UNC Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship is a one-year ACGME-accredited program located in beautiful Chapel Hill, NC. It is specifically designed to equip you with the expertise needed to excel in the complex intersection of psychiatric and medical illness. Our program focuses on mastering assessment and management of related pathology, collaboration in multi-disciplinary teams, and navigating systems and legal/ethical issues.
The Foundation of Hope funds groundbreaking mental illness research projects that explore the biological, neurological and genetic bases of mental illness and forge paths to improved diagnosis and treatment. The Foundation of Hope is and has been an amazing partner to our department for years and we're so grateful for their support of our research!
01/08/2025
The UNC Department of Psychiatry’s IMProving Adolescent and Child health Through Telepsychiatry in North Carolina (IMPACTT-NC) program has received a grant for $200,000 from Camber Foundation, aimed at expanding telepsychiatry services for school children in Duplin and Robeson counties.
Our third-year Physician-Scientist Training Program (PSTP) resident, Ranran French, MD, PhD, presented her research at the Computational Psychiatry Conference in Tübingen, Germany. She and her research team demonstrated that certain genetic variants of the D2 receptor destabilize the risperidone-DRD2 receptor interaction. Her work, which recently received a Foundation of Hope grant, establishes groundwork for the future precision selection of antipsychotics in schizophrenia treatment.
29/07/2025
Dr. DeVito joined our faculty after completing his general psychiatry residency at UNC. He works in a variety of outpatient clinics at UNC including the Acute Diagnostic and Treatment Clinic (ADTC), Psychiatry Consultation Clinic (PCC), and the Wake STEP clinic in Raleigh, NC. His clinical interests include working closely with patients who have severe and persistent mental illnesses, providing psychoeducation, and prioritizing shared decision-making to help patients manage their illnesses and lead fulfilling lives. He is excited about the opportunity to stay at UNC and continue working closely with interdisciplinary teams and psychiatry residents to provide high-quality care for patients at UNC.
29/07/2025
The The Foundation of Hope funds groundbreaking mental illness research projects that explore the biological, neurological and genetic bases of mental illness and forge paths to improved diagnosis and treatment. The Foundation of Hope is and has been an amazing partner to our department for years and we're so grateful for their support of our research!
28/07/2025
Last week, UNC Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health’s HomeLink team, Farm at Penny Lane team and Community Resource Court team participated in Orange County’s Street Medicine Pop-Up Event in support of unsheltered residents, where individuals can connect with resources and get support, including medical services, behavioral health resources, dental care, pet care, help with housing intakes and benefits and more.
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The UNC Department of Psychiatry is committed to excellence in our missions: clinical service, teaching, and research, and we are national leaders in each of these domains. We strive to embrace diversity, equity and inclusive excellence through our actions, our policies and our culture. Whether you are looking for information about patient care, education and training, clinical and neuroscience research, or our community-based efforts, I welcome your interest in our exceptional department.
Samantha Meltzer-Brody, MD, MPH, Chair of the Department of Psychiatry
Patient Services
Our providers deliver expert, compassionate clinical care to all of our patients – from the youngest children to the oldest adults, spanning the ethnic, socioeconomic and educational spectrum. Multiple inpatient units and outpatient clinics at a variety of locations throughout the Triangle offer comprehensive care and specialized treatment options for all psychiatric disorders. Our multidisciplinary teams actively collaborate and consult with other departments within the UNC School of Medicine and physicians, patients, and families throughout North Carolina and the Southeast.
Education
Psychiatry is a challenging yet rewarding discipline, and our residency and fellowship training programs continually expand and adapt to meet a host of changing needs. We provide a clinical training experience that effectively integrates psychiatric theory and practice with knowledge of psychodynamic principles, neurobiology, and pharmacology. We ensure that each trainee is extensively versed in a variety of behavioral, cognitive, and social approaches and treatment options, and in understanding the scientific and research methods that underpin our specialty. Our comprehensive training programs are among the most respected in the country, and graduates of our programs are competent physicians appropriately grounded in the understanding and treatment of psychiatric illnesses that go on to assume positions of leadership in academia (including several current Chairs of major departments of psychiatry), public service, private practice, and other areas of the private sector.
Research
UNC Psychiatry researchers stand at the forefront of cutting-edge translational psychiatric research, exploring the underlying mechanisms of human behavior and mental illness to inform new treatments and improve clinical practices. The depth and range of our clinical research programs enables us to offer many patients access to specialized care and state-of-the-art treatments that not only can improve their lives but also contribute to the betterment of the mental health of generations to come.
Provider Wellness
Medicine is facing an era of rapid and continuous change in nearly every way: payment models, technology, standards for clinical practice, and consumer driven healthcare. To prevent burnout syndrome and assist providers who are navigating this incredibly stressful environment, UNC has adopted the Quadruple Aim: a focus on enhancing patient experience, improving population health, reducing costs, and improving provider work life. Our Department’s innovative, supportive wellness programs offer novel approaches that integrate wellness as a critical metric to combat provider burnout throughout the institution.
