Meet the program director: Michelle E. Wiese, MD, MPH
Dear residency candidate,
Thank you for your interest in the Parkview Health Psychiatry Residency Program. We are honored that you are considering our program for your journey of lifelong learning and service to others. We are grateful that you are taking the time to learn about us!
Compassionate, safe and high-quality psychiatric care is not only a dire need in our community but also throughout our country. We need excellent clinicians, teachers, researchers and leaders dedicated to serving their patients and educating the next generation of psychiatrists.
At Parkview Health, we place the patient at the center of everything we do. Our Psychiatry Residency Program is committed to fostering an inclusive learning environment with the broad mission of improving the health of individuals and populations through delivery of comprehensive psychiatric care. Our focus is on training exceptional psychiatrists who are competent in evidence-based biological and psychotherapeutic interventions and who value caring for the whole person – mind and body. Our program offers an array of clinical and educational experiences including foundational experiences in inpatient medical and psychiatric care, longitudinal outpatient psychiatric and psychotherapeutic training, a neuromodulation service and integrated care experiences.
Residency faculty have expertise in consultation-liaison and emergency psychiatry, child and adolescent psychiatry, perinatal psychiatry, the integrated care model, addiction medicine, neuropsychiatry, sleep medicine and more. Our psychiatry residency is associated with the Parkview Behavioral Health Institute’s accredited psychology residency . Psychiatry residents will receive psychotherapy didactics and supervision from psychology faculty members. Each psychiatry resident is given dedicated time to cultivate a research project with the goal of presentation and publication with extensive support from the Parkview Mirro Center for Research and Innovation. Our longitudinal didactic curriculum and workshops support and enhance your clinical learning as you progress through your residency.
I was born and raised in Fort Wayne and returned to my hometown specifically to found Parkview’s Psychiatry Residency Program. Driven by the lack of psychiatric care in our city and the 22-county area that Parkview serves, I felt compelled to make a cross-country move from Seattle, Washington where my family and I had lived for many years.
After graduating from medical school at the University of Nebraska, I completed my psychiatry residency and consultation-liaison psychiatry fellowship at the University of Washington. I stayed there as an attending physician serving as Associate Program Director while caring for patients and teaching residents and medical students on inpatient psychiatry, the consultation-liaison service, the psychiatric emergency room and on the electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) service. Through my fellowship training, I developed expertise in perinatal psychiatry and the integrated care model. I am so grateful for the opportunity to pass on the knowledge, skills and passion for psychiatry and patient care that my attendings instilled in me. I look forward to educating the next generation of psychiatrists to improve the health and well-being of our community. An important part of residency selection is location. As a Fort Wayne native, I can attest that northeastern Indiana is a great place to live, work and raise a family. I enjoy revisiting classics from my childhood like the Fort Wayne Zoo while discovering many new activities and places, including the Pufferbelly Trail and our revitalized downtown restaurants. Learn more about what Fort Wayne and northeast Indiana have to offer.
Whether or not you choose our program, we congratulate you on your choice of Psychiatry and wish you the best in the recruitment process and your future career!
Michelle E. Wiese, MD, MPH
Program Director, Psychiatry