Message from Stephen M. Soltys, M.D.,
Professor and Chair, SIU Department of Psychiatry


Thank you for visiting our website. Founded in 1972,
we are maturing into an organization that provides high
quality clinical treatment, outstanding teaching and solid
efforts in research and community service. In this
website, you can find out more about our faculty and
our various clinical divisions.

  The Adult Services Division provides a comprehensive array of outpatient
and inpatient psychiatric services to adults. Philip Pan, M.D., Outpatient
Service Director, Robert Pary, M.D. and Jeffrey Bennett, M.D. staff a
variety of clinics for adults with general Psychiatric problems, with Dr. Pary
serving patients with Developmental Disabilities. Outpatient services
include a psychosocial service rehab clinic called Community Support
Network that provides intensive psychiatric and case management services
to adults with severe psychiatric illnesses. Vinod Alluri, M.D. provides
psychiatric care via local mental health centers in Macoupin and Montgomery
Counties as well as at our clinic in Springfield. Inpatient services (Stephen
Robinson, M.D., Director) include acute inpatient services at Memorial
Medical Center (James Black, M.D.) and St. John's Hospital (Haojiang
Huang, M.D.); substance abuse services through Memorial Medical Center
and a teaching affiliation with the state hospital, McFarland Mental Health
Center.

  Our Developmental Disabilities Division (Rod Curtis, M.D., Division Chief)
is among the strongest in the country and has a national reputation as an
innovator of developing systems of care for the developmentally disabled as
well as an active research program. The Jacksonville Development Center
(Klara Curtis, M.D.) is a key training site.
  
  The Child Psychiatry Division (David Decker, M.D., Division Chief) is
rapidly growing with the recent additions of Ayame Takahashi, M.D., Mary Dobbins, M.D.
and Manisha Punwani, M.D.. In January 2008, our first Fellows began training in our new
fully-accredited Child and Adolescent program. In May, 2008 Lincoln Prairie Behavioral
Health Center (an 80 bed child and adolescent psychiatric hospital) opened its doors.
SIU Child and Adolescent Psychiatry are participating in it’s development with Dr. David
Decker as medical director and Pamela Campbell, M.D. who will be joining our faculty in
November 2008.

   The Forensic Psychiatry Division (Philip Pan, M.D., Division Chief, Manisha Punwani, M.D.
and Stephen Robinson, M.D.) provides forensic services in Springfield.

   In July 2008 the Division of Psychology/Oncology became the Department’s newest
division. Led by Rhonda Johnson, Ph.D., it will assure that quality psychological support
services are available to patients at the SIU Simmons-Cooper Cancer Institute, while
engaging in state-of-the-art research and education for students and residents.
 
  We have a fully-accredited four year general psychiatry training program as well as a
five-year medicine/psychiatry program. Jeffrey Bennett, M.D. is the Director of the
Residency Program. David Resch, M.D. is the Director of the Medicine/Psychiatry Division
in the Department of Internal Medicine. We continue to be a leader in student training
and education research with the psychiatric clerkship being directed by Robert Pary, M.D.
and Stephen Robinson, M.D. An active continuing education program utilizing telepsychiatry
opportunities to share clinical information throughout the country is coordinated by Ron
Kanwischer, L.C.P.C., C.A.D.C.

  Administrative services are directed by Radmila Bogdanich, M.A.
Please feel free to contact her for more information.