Assistant Professor
Department of Psychiatry, Rush Medical College
Residency Training Director, Department of Psychiatry
Medical Director, Adult Outpatient Psychiatry Clinic
Role: Administrator, Clinician and Faculty
Joined Rush in 2014
I was born in Montenegro in the former Yugoslavia, and I finished medical school in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. I immigrated to New York in November of 1991 and attended the Psychiatry Residency Training Program at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn from 1993 to 1997. I subsequently worked at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New York for 17 years. In November of 2014, I moved to Chicago and started working at Rush as assistant professor of psychiatry and as a faculty member in the Adult Outpatient Psychiatry Clinic. The following summer, I was made medical director of the clinic, and in December of 2017, I became the psychiatry residency training director, two positions which I still hold today.
I was inspired to study psychiatry by the special bond that psychiatrists share with their patients, and by the special role that they play in their patients’ lives.
I love Rush’s strongly collegiate atmosphere.
I have not yet been involved in the mentorship program.
With all the recent advances in neuroscience, psychiatry has become a more exciting field than ever before. Every patient has a unique story, and a busy psychiatrist is never bored!
Most of my free time is spent doing outdoor activities with my friends or with my husband and three kids.