Profile: Elizabeth Chmelik, MD

Elizabeth Chmelik, MD is a staffpsychiatrist at the VA Puget Sound where her office is embedded in a primary care clinic. In this setting, she works directly with primary care physicians and a team of other mental health providers to serve this sometimes challenging but often very rewarding population. Dr. Chmelik attended medical school in Ohio, completed her 4-year psychiatry residency in Chicago, and finally completed a 1-year fellowship in consult-liaison psychiatry at the University of Washington. During these training and work roles, she has always been fascinated by the interplay between general medical and mental health symptoms and disorders, leading to agrowing interest in ways to best serve the primary care patient population.