Psychiatry Residency


Welcome Message from the Program Leadership

Welcome to the Psychiatry Residency program at Loyola Medicine. We are a four-year categorical psychiatry residency program, accredited by the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education.

Our program’s mission is to prepare physicians to be excellent psychiatrists who are both community and academic leaders. We are interested in applicants who are:

  • Eager to work independently, are enthusiastic self-directed learners, and who desire to broaden and deepen their knowledge and skill sets.
  • Motivated to grow and develop both personally and professionally throughout residency.
  • Dedicated to providing exceptional and compassionate patient care.
  • Passionate about and committed to the field of psychiatry as a whole, from our burgeoning understanding of its neuroscientific underpinnings, to the latest therapeutic or diagnostic advancements.

About the Psychiatry Residency Program

Our Program aims to train residents to:

  • Develop a sound understanding of and capacity to work effectively within the interface between medicine and mental/behavioral health. Residents are trained to develop into competent physicians, additionally helping them to develop their psychotherapeutic and psychopharmacology skills sets.
  • View and treat each patient as a whole person, rather than in compartmentalized medical or psychosocial areas. To be adept with the broad array of factors that influence a person's sense of well-being in life.
  • Remain current with the latest developments in behavioral health and to contribute to the field of psychiatry through research.
  • Engage in reflective processes to grow professionally and personally throughout the four-year residency training experience.

Some of the current specific program aims are to assist residents to develop a practice niche by graduation; to continually improve resident training experiences with all three treatment modalities of psychopharmacology, psychotherapy and neuromodulation; to continue to enhance resident competence in primary care-mental health integration and the collaborative care model; to continue ongoing development of our resident Wellness program.

We promote a learning environment that encourages our trainees to:

  • Provide exceptional and compassionate care to patients and families.
  • Advocate for the health of a patient population with various psychopathologies, from diverse cultures and socioeconomic stata.
  • Develop as an intellectually curious and reflective professional.

Our innovative curriculum is:

  • Integrated with primary care specialties, and between inpatient and outpatient psychiatric services.
  • Designed to train competent psychiatrists in multiple healthcare systems.
  • Designed to promote research and other scholarly activities.

Our graduates are poised to either pursue general psychiatry opportunities or to enter sub-specialty fellowships. We hope you will give strong consideration to our program, and we wish you the best of luck with your career in psychiatry.

Theodota Pontikes, MD, MBA-HCM, DFAACAP, DFAPA, FACLP


Theodote Pontikes, MD, 
MBA-HCM, DFAACAP, DFAPA, FACLP 
Associate Professor 
Program Director, Psychiatry

Joseph Baldwin, MD



Joseph Baldwin, MD 
Assistant Professor 
Associate Program Director 
Site Director – Hines VA, Psychiatry

Carolyn A. Doyle, MD



Carolyn A. Doyle, MD 
Assistant Professor 
Associate Program Director, Psychiatry

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