Faculty

Aspen Ainsworth, MD
Program Director

Aspen Ainsworth, MD is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and the lead embedded psychiatrist liaison for the Inpatient Medicine in Psychiatry Service (Med-Psych Unit) at URMC.  She is board certified in Adult Psychiatry and Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry and was the inaugural Fellow of University of Rochester’s Psychosomatic Medicine Fellowship.  She has served as an attending psychiatrist on the General Adult Psychiatry CL Service at URMC, medical director of the Women’s Behavioral Health Service and Perinatal Consultation Service and Collaborative Care at Gender Wellness Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Assistant Medical Student Psychiatry Clerkship director. She is also an ad-hoc consultant to the Strong Memorial Hospital Clinical Ethics consult team. 

Adrianna Hitchins, MD
Senior Instructor
Department of Psychiatry

Jeffrey Iler, MD
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychiatry

Naila Karim, MD
Senior Instructor
Department of Psychiatry

George S. Nasra, MD, MBA
Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
Department of Psychiatry 
Division Chief Collaborative Care & Wellness

Mark Nickels, MD
Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
Program Director, General Psychiatry Residency
Department of Psychiatry

Daniel McFarland, DO
Associate Professor,
Department of Psychiatry, Department of Medicine, Hematology/Oncology

Mark A. Oldham, MD
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychiatry

Margaret Puelle, MD
Senior Instructor
Department of Psychiatry

Michael Scharf, MD
Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
Departments of Psychiatry & Pediatrics 
Division Chief
Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Director 
Psychiatry Graduate Medical Education