Bourgeois joins Department of Psychiatry

James Alan Bourgeois joined the Department of Psychiatry as an associate professor on Oct. 1. He will also serve as associate director of the consultation-liaison service.

Bourgeois received his medical degree from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md. in 1989 and was board-certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in 1995. Bourgeois is a former lieutenant colonel with the U.S. Air Force Medical Corps who served as military consultant to the surgeon general for psychiatry.

He has clinical interests in consultation/liaison psychiatry, psychotherapy, personality disorders, psychopharmacology, and medical/psychiatric education and administration. His research interests involve clinical case reports, psychopharmacology (including medication side effects), and psychiatric co-morbidity in personality disorders and substance abuse. Bourgeois is a reviewer for the Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences and the Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology.