About Dr. Panzer

Paula G. Panzer MD, is a community psychiatrist leader with expertise in system change, evidence-based, culturally & linguistically competent, sustainable service delivery in hard to reach communities, trauma-informed care, and trauma-specific services. She is currently a consultant and clinician and previously was the Chief Clinician at The Jewish Board of Family & Children’s Services in New York City.  Dr. Panzer has led grant-funded service development and community research, training departments, trauma centers, quality assurance, and quality improvement departments. She is the lead author of Traumatic Stress in the Community, a chapter in the 2012 book Handbook of Community Psychiatry, Trauma-Informed Care In A Case-Based Approach to Public Psychiatry (2017) and proudly teaches in multiple settings about the necessity of integrating the impact of micro-aggressions and structural racism on people into the crucial system and clinical lenses of Trauma-Informed Care, Recovery-Oriented Practice and Evidence Driven Service.  Dr. Panzer holds an AB from Hamilton College, an MD from Cornell University Medical College and did her psychiatry training (as a resident and chief resident) and public psychiatry fellowship at Columbia University in New York.   She is currently a board member of the American Association of Community Psychiatrists and a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.

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