Raymond Young, MD, FACLP
Associate Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Program Director, Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship
Division Chief of Psychiatric Consultation-Liaison Services, Emory Healthcare
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Dr. Raymond Young is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Emory University. He is the Division Chief of Psychiatric Consultation Liaison Services for Emory Healthcare. In his role Dr. Young is responsible for development and expansion of psychiatric consultation liaison services for Emory Healthcare.
Along with his position as Division Chief of Psychiatric Consultation Liaison Services for Emory Healthcare, Dr. Young is the Program Director for Emory Healthcare’s Consultation Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship Program. His clinical interests include telemedicine, geriatrics, organ transplantation, and functional neurological disorders. Dr. Young is a Fellow of Emory’s Woodruff Leadership Academy and a Fellow of the Academy of Consultation Liaison Psychiatry.
Dr. Young joined Emory’s Department of Psychiatry in August of 2003. He received his medical degree from the Medical College of Ohio in 1998 and completed a combined Internal Medicine-Psychiatry Residency at Rush Presbyterian St. Luke’s Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. He is board certified in Psychiatry with added qualifications in Consultation Liaison Psychiatry.
Wendy Baer, MD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Medical Director of Psychiatric Oncology, Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University
Vice Chair for Wellness, Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory University
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Dr. Wendy Baer is Assistant Professor holding joint appointments in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and the Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology at Emory University School of Medicine. Dr. Baer serves as Director of Psychiatric Oncology at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, and also serves as Vice Chair for Wellness in the Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology.
In her work at Winship Cancer Institute, Dr. Baer helps patients and their families deal with the stress of receiving a cancer diagnosis and subsequent treatment. As a Psychiatrist she has expertise in treating clinical depression and anxiety both with medications and psychotherapy to help people manage emotions, behaviors and relationships. The fundamental goal of Dr. Baer's practice is to promote wellness and maximize patients' quality of life as much as possible. She believes strongly in the team approach to patient care and collaborates regularly with patients, doctors, nurses and social workers.
Dr. Baer attended medical school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she graduated with honors. From UNC she went to the University of Pennsylvania where she completed her residency in Psychiatry and served as the Chief Resident in her senior year. Prior to moving to Atlanta, Dr Baer worked in with patients dealing with cancer at the Swedish Cancer Institute in Seattle, WA.
Margaret Goracy, MD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Staff Psychiatrist, Trauma Recovery Program, Atlanta VA Medical Center
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Dr. Goracy is a Staff Psychiatrist within the Atlanta VA’s Consultation-Liaison Service and the Trauma Recovery Program. She is also an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Emory University School of Medicine. In her role, Dr. Goracy psychiatrically evaluates patients on inpatient medical units and in the VA’s PTSD clinic, and also teaches fellows, residents, and medical students.
Her clinical interests include functional neurological disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder, delirium, personality disorders, trainee education, and telepsychiatry.
Dr Goracy joined the Atlanta VA’s Behavioral Services Department in August 2016 after completing the Psychosomatic Medicine Fellowship at Emory University School of Medicine. She graduated from Columbia University where she double majored in Economics and French & Romance Philology. After University, she completed a Post-Baccalaureate Pre-Medical program at the Rutgers University School of Medicine from which she received her medical degree in 2011. Dr. Goracy completed Psychiatry Residency and served as Chief Resident at Mount Sinai/SLR in NYC. She is board certified in Psychiatry and board-eligible in Consultation Liaison Psychiatry.
Heather Greenspan, MD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
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Dr. Greenspan completed Emory’s C/L Fellowship program in 2015 and after a year at an affiliate hospital (Atlanta VAMC), rejoined Emory’s Department of Psychiatry in 2016. She served as the Associate Director of Emory University Hospital’s Psychiatric Consultation- Liaison Services from November 2017 until July 2020 when she was promoted to the role as Director. Her clinical interests lie primarily in the area of C/L psychiatry, transplant psychiatry, psychological response to illness, teaching & expanding educational services for medical & PA students, residents/ and fellows on Emory University Hospital’s Psychiatric C/L Service. She holds society memberships in the American Psychiatric Association and the Academy of C/L Medicine. She’s certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.
Ann Schwartz, MD
Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Director, Psychiatry Residency Education
Director, Consultation-Liaison Service, Grady Hospital
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Ann Schwartz, MD, is the Director of Residency Education in the Department of Psychiatry. In this administrative role, she oversees the overall education of the psychiatry residents in the program, which provides both excellent clinical training as well as opportunities to develop as an educator and researcher.
Dr. Schwartz’s main clinical responsibilities are on the Consultation-Liaison (C/L) Service at Grady Memorial Hospital, where she serves as the Director of the service. This is one of the busiest, highest acuity C/L programs in the country. In this role, Dr. Schwartz is actively involved in teaching to psychiatric residents and fellows, as well as medical students.
Dr. Schwartz’s academic interests include consultation-liaison psychiatry, education and professionalism.
Sanjay Sharma, MD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Site Supervisor, Grady IDP Clinic
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Dr. Sharma completed both his undergraduate work and medical school at Emory. He went on to complete his general psychiatry residency as well as a consultation-liaison psychiatry fellowship in the Emory Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, joining the Department faculty upon finishing his training. Since completing his training, Dr. Sharma has primarily worked at the Grady Infectious Disease Program (IDP), where he serves as the Associate Director of the Center for Well Being taking care of persons living with HIV/AIDS and co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders.