Coaching Program
The Psychiatry Residency Coaching Program is an innovative approach to providing longitudinal feedback to residents during the PGY1 – 3 years of training. Our goal is to facilitate a continuous improvement cycle where the coach and resident partner. Through an empowering and learner-focused approach, we seek to help residents develop skills of lifelong learning, self-reflection, and goal setting. We seek to build capacity instead of dependency, and move all learners towards mastery, while fostering an inclusive environment of belonging.
Each PGY1,2, & 3 General Psychiatry and PGY 3 & 4 Triple Board resident is paired with a Faculty Coach who observes and guides them longitudinally across the first three years of training. The Coach observes the resident in multiple clinical situations (rounds, interviewing, handoffs, supervisory encounters, interdisciplinary team meetings, call triaging, etc.). Coaches encourage self-reflection, support the resident in setting clinical goals, and provide specific and directed feedback based on direct observation aimed at strengthening clinical skills. Coaches participate in monthly faculty development sessions and peer supervision. Each Coach oversees approximately 4-5 residents.
The Coaching Program is under the direction of Sallie DeGolia, MD, MPH.
2025-26 Coaches
Sallie DeGolia, MD, MPH
Coaching Director
Coaching Director
Sallie is the Director of Coaching who served as Associate Training Director then Training Director of Stanford’s General Psychiatry Residency for 17 years. She has been involved regionally and nationally helping faculty and trainees become better teachers, mentors, and leaders.
Sallie is Section Chief of the Teaching and Assessment Clinics and runs the Evaluation Clinic. She published two APA books: Psychiatry Resident Handbook in 2023 and Supervision in Psychiatric Practice: Practical Approaches Across Venues and Providers in 2020.
Alissa Rogol, MD, JD
Associate Coaching Director
Associate Coaching Director
Alissa is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Division of General Psychiatry and the Center for Biomedical Ethics at Stanford University. She is passionate about helping to launch the Psychiatry Residency Coaching Program as well as the practice of patient-centered care in her hospital-based psychiatry and ethics roles. Alissa received her MD from Columbia VP&S before completing both psychiatry residency and child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at Stanford, where she served as chief resident and chief fellow. Her undergraduate degree is from Princeton University, where she majored in Public Policy and International Affairs and received a certificate in American Studies. She then attended The George Washington University Law School, where she graduated with honors. She worked as a public defender for juveniles and adults in Philadelphia’s criminal justice system prior to starting her career in medicine. Alissa currently serves as a member of the Ethics Committees at Stanford Hospital and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital and is onboarding as a Relationship-Centered Communication (RCC) faculty member through the Advancing Communication Excellence at Stanford (ACES) Train-the-Trainer Program.
Roy Collins, MD, MPH
Dr. Roy Collins is a board-certified psychiatrist and incoming Clinical Assistant Professor working primarily in the Sports Psychiatry, Eating Disorder, and Centerspace outpatient clinics. He is currently a Clinician-Scientist with dual roles at Stanford: as an Attending Sports Psychiatrist and as a researcher in mental performance with the Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance
Willam Faustman, Ph.D.
William Faustman is a Clinical Professor (Affiliated) who has been active in teaching, supervision, and research at Stanford for over 40 years. During all this time he has worked on inpatient psychiatry at the VA Palo Alto. His research has focused on severe mental illness/schizophrenia and includes extensive publications, book chapters, and presentations in areas such as psychopharmacology, behavioral assessment, imaging, and cognition. His clinical focus has been in forensic psychology, inpatient care management, differential diagnosis, and psychotherapy for individuals hospitalized in acute crisis. He has served in numerous training and teaching roles for the VA and Stanford over the years. These include associate site director (VA Palo Alto) of the Stanford Psychiatry Residency Training program, and program coordinator of the American Psychological Association accredited postdoctoral fellowship program at the VA Palo Alto. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association (Division 28, Psychopharmacology and Substance Abuse) and holds Chartered Psychologist and Associate Fellow status with the British Psychological Society. He serves on the Stanford IRB and has a strong interest in ethics. As a longstanding member of the inpatient VA staff, he is intimately familiar with the unique issues of Veterans and VA care and can provide support and guidance related to clinical practice in this setting.
Dany Lamothe, MD
Dany Lamothe earned his medical degree from Laval University in Quebec, Canada, and completed his psychiatry residency at Sherbrooke University. He later obtained a master’s degree in Philosophy of Medicine and Psychiatry from King’s College London, where his dissertation focused on the evolution of somatoform disorder diagnoses. Dr. Lamothe completed a fellowship in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry at Stanford and subsequently joined as faculty in the Division of Medical Psychiatry. He currently serves as Medical Director of the Psychiatry Emergency Service. Since 2024, he has served as the lead psychiatrist of the GI Behavioral Medicine Clinic, specializing in the care of patients with disorders of gut-brain interaction. His clinical interests include the treatment of somatic symptom disorder and other conditions of the mind-body interface. He is also passionate about brief psychotherapeutic interventions, the role of emotions in health and illness, suicide prevention, and medical education with a focus on clinical interviewing and consultation skills.
Alka Mathur, MD
Dr. Alka Mathur is a Board Certified Psychiatrist. She completed her residency training at Stanford University. She previously served as the Medical Director for the VA Palo Alto Healthcare System’s Telemental Health Program, where she managed the Telepsychiatry, Teletherapy, Tele-Addiction, & Tele-PTSD programs, and ran the Stanford Psychiatry Telemental Health rotation. She authored the TelePsychiatry chapter for the APA The Psychiatry Resident Handbook: How to Thrive in Training. Dr. Mathur has a strong interest in the expansion of virtual health applications to increase access to care, on which she has given numerous talks, presentations, and podcasts.
Harriet Roeder, MD
Dr. Roeder graduated from Yale Medical School and earned a Masters degree in Public Health at UC Berkeley. She completed dual training in internal medicine and psychiatry at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center and Stanford. During the course of her career, she has had the opportunity to work in adult primary care, outpatient psychiatry, and community mental health settings. From 2008 - 2019 Dr. Roeder served as the Chief of the Inpatient Psychiatry Consultation Service at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center. Currently, she is in private practice specializing in the treatment of chronic pain and functional disorders. Dr. Roeder is board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and the American Board of Addiction Medicine.
Alaa Shanbour, MD
Dr. Alaa Shanbour is a physician-scientist and Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University, where he completed his Interventional Psychiatry Fellowship after serving as Chief Resident during his psychiatry residency at Central Michigan University. His clinical interests center on developing and implementing innovative interventions for patients with treatment-resistant psychiatric disorders who have failed conventional medication approaches. At Stanford's Brain Stimulation Lab, Dr. Shanbour leads several clinical studies, including the REVEAL trial investigating vagus nerve stimulation parameters for mood disorders, alongside research in TMS, ECT, ultrasound-guided ketamine delivery, DBS for OCD, and Ibogaine for PTSD. His translational research integrates his background in nanotechnology, brain stimulation and targeted drug delivery with psychiatric applications, focusing on developing precision interventions for treatment-resistant populations. Dr. Shanbour currently oversees outpatient TMS, ECT, and Esketamine clinics while supervising residents and fellows within the interventional psychiatry program.
Jasmine Tatum, MD
Jasmine Tatum, MD graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University and earned her medical degree at the Icahn School of Medicine. She completed her residency here at Stanford and served as Chief Resident in her final year. She currently works as a Staff Psychiatrist at La Selva PHP/IOP and has a small private practice. She also spends 1-2 days a week working in Santa Clara County's outpatient psychiatry clinic. She is passionate about increasing access to care, cross-cultural psychiatry, DEI, and integrative medicine. On the weekends she tries to spend as much time as possible in the mountains, either skiing or hiking, and enjoys spending most days outdoors.
Jon Updike, MD, MPH
Jon Updike is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford. He is a multigenerational born, raised, and educated Wyomingite who attended the University of Wyoming for his undergraduate studies, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons for his MD, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health for his MPH, Stanford Health Care for his general psychiatry residency and as a chief resident, and Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital/San Mateo County for his child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship in the community track and as a chief fellow. Currently, his responsibilities include providing care in the Stanford Adult Anxiety Clinic, integrated psychiatric care for allcove San Mateo, telepsychiatric care for K’ima:w Medical Center in Hoopa, Cal., facilitating Stanford’s School Based Mental Health ECHO, and contributing to technical assistance and consultation for the youth-centered integrated youth mental health model, Allcove. While his professional interests are in community psychiatry, rural mental health care, youth empowerment, public health, and systems, he enjoys pour over coffees, fountain pens, and walking his cats.
Ellie Williams, MD
Katherine (Ellie) Williams is Director of the Women's Wellness Clinic, which she co-founded in 2004. Over the years, the Women’s Wellness Clinic has been known as one of the top, most sought-after by psychiatry trainees, teaching clinics in the Department of Psychiatry. This specialty clinic focuses upon the unique mental health needs of women across the life cycle.
Dr. Williams has been committed to educating a wide variety of students about women's mental health, and she has been the recipient of numerous teaching awards within the Psychiatry Residency. Besides her longtime supervision of residents in the Women's Wellness Clinic, she has served for years as a psychotherapy supervisor in the Individual Psychotherapy Clinic (IPC). Dr. Williams also lectures in many capacities within the residency program and has served as course director of a PGY IV didactics on women’s mental health. Beyond the residency program, Dr. Williams developed a women's mental health curriculum for the Palo Alto University/Stanford PhD program, mentoring and serving on the dissertation committies for several PhD students on their dissertation projects. Through her active participation in the development of a national perinatal psychiatry curriculum, The National Curriculum in Reproductive Psychiatry (NCRP), Dr Williams has worked tirelessly to bring a standardized women's mental health curriculum to psychiatry residents across the nation. Dr. Williams also created and has taught a course for Stanford undergraduates in the Sophomore Seminar program, and for almost 2 decades, she has enjoyed introducing college students to the specialty of women's mental health, encouraging young learners to enter the field. Dr. Williams has also served as a PI or Co-investigator on multiple research studies over the years focused upon perinatal depression, including potential treatment strategies and improving access to care, as well as the effects of reproductive hormones in infertility treatments and perimenopause, on the mood and anxiety in women.
Dr. William’s has presented at multiple national and international conferences over the years. and has multiple publications, book chapters, and has co-edited the textbook Women’s Reproductive Mental Health.