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Executive Director, Graduate Medical Education & Designated Institutional Official
National Institutes of Health Clinical Center
Dr. Chung is the Designated Institutional Official and Executive Director of Graduate Medical Education in the Office of Clinical Research Training and Medical Education. In this role, she is responsible for administrative oversight of all Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education training programs and non-accredited clinical fellowships at the NIH Clinical Center.
Dr. Chung, a psychiatrist, was previously Deputy Clinical Director of the National Institute of Mental Health Intramural Research Program and Program Director of the NIMH Clinical Fellowship and one-year accredited PGY4 Residency Program. She has been active in the career development of future psychiatrist-researchers and in neuroscience-based research training.
Dr. Chung earned BS and MD degrees from Northwestern University, then completed a psychiatry residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital followed by a research fellowship in medical anthropology at Harvard Medical School. She has held faculty positions at Harvard Medical School, the University of Minnesota Medical School and Georgetown University Medical Center.
A Senior Research Physician, Dr. Chung’s research interests include interventions to overcome barriers to mental health care among minority and underserved populations and the intersection of mental and medical illnesses. At NIMH, she has conducted a variety of clinical studies including the mental health assessment of adolescents and young adults with and without cancer, best practices for recruiting healthy research volunteers for clinical studies, and the mental health impact of COVID-19.
