Joyce Y. Chung, MD

BS, Northwestern University
MD, The Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University

The NIH Clinical Center is pleased to announce that Joyce Y. Chung, MD, is the new Designated Institutional Official and Executive Director of Graduate Medical Education in the Office of Clinical Research Training and Medical Education. In this role, she is responsible for administrative oversight of all Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education training programs and non-accredited clinical fellowships at the Clinical Center.

Dr. Chung, a psychiatrist, was previously Deputy Clinical Director of the National Institute of Mental Health Intramural Research Program and Program Director of the NIMH Clinical Fellowship and one-year accredited PGY4 Residency Program. She has been active in the career development of future psychiatrist-researchers and in neuroscience-based research training.

Dr. Chung earned BS and MD degrees from Northwestern University, then completed a psychiatry residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital followed by a research fellowship in medical anthropology at Harvard Medical School. She has held faculty positions at Harvard Medical School, the University of Minnesota Medical School and Georgetown University Medical Center.

A Senior Research Physician, Dr. Chung’s research interests include interventions to overcome barriers to mental health care among minority and underserved populations and the intersection of mental and medical illnesses. At NIMH, she has conducted a variety of clinical studies including the mental health assessment of adolescents and young adults with and without cancer, best practices for recruiting healthy research volunteers for clinical studies, and the mental health impact of COVID-19.

Having served as an attending physician on the NIMH psychiatry consultation liaison service for the past 12 years, Dr. Chung brings to the DIO role an NIH CC-wide appreciation of the training activities of clinical fellows and the range of research conducted by faculty from different institutes and specialties. Her past role as Chair of the Graduate Medical Education Committee at NIH also puts her in a position to hit the ground running when she starts in this new role.

• NIH Director’s Individual Award for outstanding work leading the ORAP proposals for Deeda Blair Research Initiative for Disorders of the Brain, 2021
• NIMH Director’s Award for Scientific Leadership Recruitment Search Committee Members in recognition of the staff who served on the search committees for a member of critical senior recruitments this year in both extramural and intramural programs, 2021
• NIMH Director’s Award for Significant Achievement for exemplary mentoring and support of NIMH trainees and fellows, 2019
• NIMH Director’s Award for Significant Achievement – Genomic and Clinical Data Sharing Team for leading the development of NIMH IRP policies for the sharing of data from human subjects and from genomic studies in humans and model organisms, 2016
• NIMH Director’s Award for Significant Achievement in recognition of her optimal contribution in the administration of the NIMH Research Track at the 2014 Annual American Psychiatric Association Meeting, 2014
• NIMH Director’s Award for Significant Achievement – Clinical Fellow Research Training Team for outstanding creativity, energy, and dedication to improving recruitment, mentoring, and retention of clinical research fellows, 2011
• NIMH Director’s Award for Significant Achievement – Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee in recognition of outstanding service to support the IACC and to develop the Strategic Plan for Autism Research, 2009

Utilization of the DSM-5 Self-Rated Level 1 Cross-Cutting Symptom Measure-Adult to Screen Healthy Volunteers for Research Studies. Mahoney M, Farmer C, Sinclair S, Sung S, Dehaut K, Chung J. (2020) Psychiatry Research. PMID: 32086029

The Feasibility and Value of Parent Input When Evaluating the Mental Health of Young Adults with and without Cancer Chung JY, Clayton EL, Hu H, Pao M, Wiener LS. (2020) Psycho-Oncology. PMID: 32022347

Mind the Gap: Neuroscience Literacy and the Next Generation of Psychiatrists. Chung J and Insel T. (2014) Academic Psychiatry. PMID: 24619911

Qualitative Evaluation of Barriers to Care for Trauma-Related Mental Health Problems Among Low Income Minorities in Primary Care. Chung J, Frank L, Subramanian A, Galen S, Leonhard S, Green B. (2012) Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease. PMID: 22551798

Treating Depression in Predominantly Low-Income Young Minority Women: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Miranda J, Chung JY, Green BL, Krupnick J, Siddique J, Revicki D, Belin T. (2003) Journal of the American Medical Association. PMID: 12837712