Metabolic Psychiatry Clinic

The Metabolic Psychiatry Clinic is the nation’s first academic specialty clinic which provides evaluation and treatment for patients struggling with psychiatric illness and metabolic abnormalities. Metabolic abnormalities include insulin resistance, pre-diabetes, or unhealthy excess body weight. The clinic aims to help treat patients with the disease of obesity, its associated co-morbidities, and to reduce cardiovascular risk, while simultaneously addressing mental health. In patients with psychiatric illness, diseases such as obesity, diabetes, and heart disease occur in much greater proportions than the general population. Metabolic abnormalities are often found in a wide range of illnesses including depression, bipolar illness, schizophrenia or psychosis, eating disorders, such as binge eating and bulimia nervosa, and in patients with side effects from psychotropic medications. This clinic collaborates closely with and serves as a consultation clinic to the Eating Disorder and the Nutrition Clinics, and is open to both augmenting care as a consulting clinic as well as being the primary psychiatric provider for patients depending on the case.