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 (Philip Pan, M.D., Director) provides a
comprehensive array of outpatient and inpatient psychiatric services to
adults. Outpatient services include a psychosocial service rehab clinic
called the 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 (Robert Pary, M.D., Director) include acute inpatient
services at Memorial Medical Center (James Black, M.D.) and St. John's
Hospital; 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. The Forensic Psychiatry
Division (Philip Pan, M.D., Division Chief) provides forensic services in
Springfield and at state facilities in Alton, Chester and Anna (Choate)
(J. Srinivasaraghavan, M.D.) Mental Health Centers.
   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. 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.