Resident Psychiatrist
Naval Medical Center San Diego
Dr. Morgan Schmidt, LT, U.S. Navy, is a fourth-year psychiatry Chief Resident at Naval Medical Center San Diego. She grew up in Indiana and earned her B.S. in Chemistry from Purdue University and completed medical school at the Uniformed Services University (USU), where she was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha honor society. During residency, she successfully led an initiative to increase scholarly activity in the psychiatry department and was appointed as a USU Teaching Fellow for her efforts educating medical students. She is currently Chief of the Psychiatric Transition Program (PTP), the military’s only early intervention program for servicemembers with first episode psychosis. Her academic interests include medical education, serious mental illness, and eating disorders in military populations.
