CL Core Faculty
Anne Louise Stewart, MD - Program Director
Dr. Anne Louise Stewart is program director for the Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship and associate program director for the adult psychiatry program. She joined the UVA team as one of the consultation- liaison psychiatry faculty after completing a CL fellowship at the University of Texas Southwestern. She is passionate about scholarly education and developing new curriculums. She enjoys caring for patients alongside residents and fellows as well as being part of the reproductive psychiatry research program. Outside of time with her family, she loves rose gardening and sharing the roses with friends.
Hema Kher, MD MPH - Associate Program Director
Dr. Hema Kher is associate program director for the Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship. She completed psychiatry residency and CL fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. During fellowship, she completed a psychosocial oncology track at Dana Farber Cancer Institute. She joined UVA as an inpatient CL attending and is starting a psychiatry clinic at UVA’s Emily Couric Cancer Center. She enjoys spending time with her husband and son, exploring restaurants and bakeries in the Charlottesville area, and spending time outdoors.
Jordan Rosen, MD - Core Faculty
Dr. Jordan Rosen is board certified in both Psychiatry and Consultation-Liaison (CL) Psychiatry by the Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. He attended St. George’s University and completed his residency at the University of Virginia before attending Yale University for his CL fellowship. He is a leading clinician in critical care psychiatry with publications spanning topics of QTc prolongation, delirium, and drug toxidromes and was the director of critical care psychiatry at Brigham and Women’s hospital and Harvard Medical School prior to joining the University of Virginia. He brings this teaching expertise to the general psychiatry residency as well as the pulmonology critical care fellows. As the Program Director of the general residency psychiatry program and the Director of the Consultation-Liaison psychiatry service, he is widely involved in the department. Outside of medicine, he enjoys spending time with his family, golden retriever, and cat.
Justin Smith, MD - Core Faculty
Dr. Justin Smith is board certified in both Psychiatry and Consultation-Liaison (CL) Psychiatry by the Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. He attended The University of Virginia for medical school and then completed his CL fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital. He has been at UVA for eight years as a faculty member for the general adult psychiatry program and was the CL Service Director for six years. He has an interest in neuropsychiatry and has been part of the UVA Huntington’s clinic with neurology colleagues and teaches the neuroscience curriculum for the adult psychiatry residents. Dr. Smith’s outside interests include watching basketball, playing music with friends, hanging out with his family, and various sorts of tinkering.
Jennifer L. Payne, MD
Dr. Jennifer L. Payne is the Vice Chair of Research and a Professor at UVA in the Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences, as well as the Director of the Reproductive Psychiatry Research Program (RPRP). She is certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in Psychiatry and is an expert in reproductive psychiatry.
Dr. Payne has been conducting clinical research for the past 20 years, with a particular emphasis in perinatal psychiatry. Her research interests include epigenetic biomarkers of postpartum depression (for which she holds 2 patents), the genetic, biological basis, prevention and treatment of postpartum depression, as well as premenstrual and perimenopausal mood disorders and psychiatric management. Her work also includes defining best practices for management of psychiatric disorders in pregnancy and postpartum.
Nassima Ait-Daoud Tirouririne, MD
Dr. Nassima Ait-Daoud Tiouririne is Associate Director for the Psychiatry Residency Program in the Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences and Program Director of the Addiction Medicine Fellowship at the University of Virginia Medical Center. She is a Board-certified psychiatrist and Addiction Medicine specialist. Dr. Ait-Daoud is the Vice Chair for clinical affairs and the Medical Director of Ambulatory Psychiatry. She is dedicated to teaching, clinical care and research and is responsible for the education and teaching of Addiction Medicine fellows and training of CL fellows in addiction medicine topics. In her time off, Dr. Ait-Daoud enjoys hiking, gardening, and yoga.
Christopher Holstege, MD
Dr. Christopher Holstege is a Professor of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics, Chief of the Division of Medical Toxicology, Medical Director of the Blue Ridge Poison Center and Executive Director of University of Virginia Elson Student Health Center. His areas of research interest include appropriate clinical care of poisoned patients, epidemiology of poisonings, substance abuse trends in student populations, chemical agents utilized in terrorism/murder and the emergence of new substances of abuse. Dr. Holstege has extensively contributed to the Medical Toxicology fellowship and rotation curriculum development and is a recipient of numerous teaching awards in both Emergency Medicine and Medical Toxicology. He is a distinguished leader and member of several institutional, state and national committees in both specialties.