Kelly L. Cozza, MD, DFAPA, FACLP
Scientist, Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress
Professor of Psychiatry and Family Medicine, Vice Chair (Education), Department of Psychiatry
Uniformed Services University
Kelly L. Cozza, MD, DLFAPA, FACLP is a Professor of Psychiatry and Family Medicine, Vice Chair (Education) in the Department of Psychiatry, and a Scientist for the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress (CSTS) at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) in Bethesda, Maryland. She also serves as a senior faculty-clinician for the National Capital Consortium Psychiatry Residency Program at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. As Vice Chair for the Department of Psychiatry she is responsible for faculty development and leads the undergraduate medical education division.
Dr. Kelly Cozza received her medical degree from Creighton University in 1987 and completed her psychiatric residency at Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC) in Washington DC in 1991. She served as the 3rd Armored Division Psychiatrist and Surgeon in Frankfurt, Germany, after which she completed her Psychiatry Consultation-Liaison Fellowship at Walter Reed in 1993, then assumed the role of Chief and Fellowship Director of the Walter Reed Psychiatry Consultation-Liaison Service (1994-1997). After leaving the military, she became the integrated HIV psychiatrist on the Infectious Disease Service in the Department of Medicine at Walter Reed and for the Department of War from 1997-2006, served as a consultant and senior educator for the Walter Reed Psychiatry Residency Program, and then joined the USUHS faculty as the Psychiatry Clerkship Director in 2016. She has more than 30 years of experience in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry (Medical-Surgical Psychiatry) and medical education.
Dr. Kelly Cozza has published and lectured extensively in the areas of psychopharmacology, HIV/AIDS, and medical education. She is a founding member and former co-chair of the World Psychiatric Association Workgroup for HIV and the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry (ACLP) Special Interest Group (SIG) for HIV. Dr. Cozza is a publishing eModule member of the Association of Directors of Medical Student Education in Psychiatry (ADMSEP) Clinical Simulation Initiative Committee (https://www.admsep.org/csi-emodules.php?c=taskforce), as well as an ADMSEP Senior Peer Mentor and an Education Scholar’s Mentor. Her current areas of clinical and research interest include HIV, psychopharmacology, collaborative care of medically complicated patients, and psychiatric education for medical students and residents. She and her USU Medical Education Team have developed synchronous, asynchronous, tele-simulation, and tele-health undergraduate medical educational materials that have a global audience and impact.
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