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
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Neuropsychiatry Integration; Psychiatry Consultation-Liaison Service (PCLS)

Jeffrey Iler, MD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Psychiatry Residency Program Director
Primary Care Integration; Women’s Mental Health

Naila Karim, MD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Transplant Psychiatry; Psychiatry Consultation-Liaison Service (PCLS)

Daniel McFarland, DO
Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Psycho-Oncology Program Medical Director; Medical Oncology

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

J. Cody Naughton, MD
Senior Instructor of Psychiatry
Medicine in Psychiatry Service; Primary Care Integration; Medical Student Education

Mark Nickels, MD
Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
Psychiatry Consultation-Liaison Service (PCLS) Medical Director; Transplant Psychiatry

Mark A. Oldham, MD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Proactive Integration of Mental Health Care in Medicine (PRIME) Medical Director
Delirium Research; Psychiatry Consultation-Liaison Service (PCLS)

Margaret Puelle, MD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Psychodermatology; Psychiatry Consultation-Liaison Service (PCLS); Medical Student Education

Avantika Puri, MD
Senior Instructor of Psychiatry
Acute Services Division, Adult Inpatient Psychiatry

Wei-Li Suen, MD
Senior Instructor of Psychiatry
Acute Services Division, Interventional Psychiatry