Welcome to the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Our Department and the School of Medicine are located on the main campus of the University of Missouri (with an enrollment of 30,000 students) which includes highly respected medical, law and veterinary schools as well as the internationally acclaimed MU Journalism School. We are located half way between Kansas City and St Louis and boast restaurants, shopping and cultural events usually only seen in larger cosmopolitan cities.
The Department is currently undergoing a dramatic transformation. Dr. John Lauriello has recently become only the third permanent department chair in its 50 year history. Dr. Lauriello is an internationally known researcher in the area of schizophrenia and a previous clinical vice chair at the University of New Mexico. Along with this important change, the department, in conjunction with the MU school of medicine and the University Hospital, has opened the first MU university psychiatry inpatient center. Located adjacent to the main hospital, in the former Mid Missouri State Hospital building, the University of Missouri Psychiatric Center (MUPC) is also the new integrative home for the department. In the next few years the old Mid Missouri Building will be renovated into a state of the art psychiatric center.
Our University Hospital services include the Green Meadow University Psychiatric Outpatient Clinic, a Psychosomatic Consultation Service and the University Child Psychiatry Outpatient Clinic. The Department is affiliated with a broad array of mental health facilities, including the Harry S. Truman Memorial Veteran’s Administration Hospital, Fulton State Hospital, Royal Oaks Hospital, Burrell Behavioral Health and the Thompson Center for Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders.
Our department is committed to state of the clinical care, teaching and research. We are rapidly expanding our faculty to meet the clinical and training needs of the region. In the next few years the department plans to recruit researchers to work alongside our strong clinical educator faculty.
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