Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship

Dr. Michelle Parker graduated magna cum laude from Boston University with a degree in Human Physiology in 2011. She attended medical school at the University of Massachusetts in Worcester where she led a student group called Sidekicks, which paired medical students with pediatric patients diagnosed with chronic terminal disease. She earned her medical degree in 2015 and was awarded the Glasgow-Rubin Citation for Academic Achievement from the American Medical Women’s Association. She matched at her first-choice residency at Brown University where she pursued her adult psychiatry training. During residency, she was involved in The Adolescent Leadership Council (TALC), a support group for teens living with chronic medial illness, as a leader of the parent therapy group and was active in recruitment and residency curriculum development. She “fast-tracked” to child and adolescent fellowship and continued to be heavily involved in resident and medical student teaching and mentorship at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. She was appointed chief fellow, along with her co-chief, for the 2019-2020 academic year. During fellowship, Dr. Parker authored two posters for the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training annual meeting in Dallas, Texas, published a review of electroconvulsive therapy for the Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter and second-authored a manuscript which is being submitted for peer review regarding child and adolescent fire behavior with Dr. Steven Barreto. During fellowship Dr. Parker served as a Chief Fellow and was active in well-being initiatives. Following fellowship she joined the faculty at Brown and became the attending psychiatrist for Bradley Hospital’s CADD Safequest Program, serving children with autism and developmental disabilities, as well as continued her passion for developing meaningful, long-term relationships with families as an outpatient psychiatrist.