john hopkins program

/history
After reading Clifford Beers’s description of his own mental illness, A Mind that Found Itself, William Henry Welch (dean of the Johns Hopkins medical faculty) ordered the creation of a Hopkins affiliated psychiatric institute in 1908

Through the endowment of the philanthropist Henry Phipps, the Henry Phipps Psychiatric Clinic of The Johns Hopkins Hospital was founded in 1908, the first academic psychiatry department in America

Hopkins psychiatry residents are known as the “Phipps Residents,” honoring the department’s original benefactor


Adolf Meyer was the first professor of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and is considered the father of American psychiatry


The subspecialty of Child Psychiatry was founded at Johns Hopkins by Leo Kanner, M.D., the author of the first textbook in the field and the first to describe autism


Friday evening “tea” (happy hour) with the Psychiatry faculty and residents in Fell’s Point has been a weekly tradition for over fifteen years


/fellowships
Fellowship opportunities in the department include
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry,
Public/Community Psychiatry along with
Neuropsychiatry,
Substance Abuse,
Affective Disorders,
Geriatric Psychiatry,
Neuropsychiatry,
Neuroimaging,
numerous research fellowships. Our department has a strong relationship with the Maryland Forensic Psychiatry Program. Additional fellowship options exist through the Bloomberg School of Public Health (particularly the Department of Mental Health).