Professor of Psychiatry
Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Dr. Tobia graduated from St. George’s University School of Medicine, Grenada, West Indies in 1996. After being trained in a dual residency in Internal Medicine and Psychiatry at West Virginia University, he came to Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in 2001 as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2013 and to Professor in 2018 in the Department of Psychiatry. Dr. Tobia has a secondary appointment in the Division of General Internal Medicine. He currently serves as the Senior Vice Chair of Faculty Affairs, Interim Chair and Director of Residency Training in the Department of Psychiatry; is certified by the Board of Psychosomatic Medicine (2010,) and is the Service Chief of Consultation Psychiatry at Robert Wood Johnson Barnabas Health in New Brunswick, NJ.
Dr. Tobia is an active contributor to the medical literature with publications, reviews, and abstracts. Dr. Tobia’s educational interests include the merging of popular culture and the field of Psychiatry. In addition to the curriculum he developed at RWJMS, he directs the monthly Participatory Cinema at the Rutgers Center of Alcohol Studies; is a blogger for Psychology Today; hosts a continuing education webpage on MyCME; provides psychopharmacology seminars for Executive Links Inc. and PESI, Inc., and is a content expert for Clinical Match Me's Nurse Practitioners in Residency Program. His various innovative teaching approaches including six that are registered in the Office of Research Commercialization at Rutgers University.
