Steve Epstein, MD

Professor, Chair of Department of Psychiatry at Georgetown University School of Medicine

Dr. Steve Epstein is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at Georgetown University School of Medicine. Additionally, he serves as the Chief of Service for the Department of Psychiatry at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital and the Physician Executive Director for Behavioral Health at MedStar Health. For the past seven years, he has also been a visiting Professor at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Eldoret, Kenya. As a researcher, Dr. Epstein has conducted National Institutes of Health-funded research and published extensively in the area of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry. In 2001, he was awarded an RO1 grant from National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH) to study primary care physicians’ decision-making in the evaluation and treatment of depression. He has also been principal investigator on two other NIMH grants in this area.