Skip to main content
Explore URMC
menu

Faculty

Program Director

Aspen Ainsworth
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 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.

Core Faculty

Aspen Ainsworth
Mark Nickels, MD
Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
Department of Psychiatry

Ben Lee
Hochang Ben Lee, MD
John Romano Professor and Chair
Department of Psychiatry

Jeffrey Iler, MD
Jeffrey Iler, MD
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychiatry

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

Mark Oldham
Mark A. Oldham, MD
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychiatry

Elizabeth Santos, MD
Elizabeth (“EJ”) Santos, MD, MPH
Associate Professor
Department of Psychiatry
Director
Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship
Director
Strong Behavioral Health Older Adults Clinic

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