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Joseph Locala, MD - University Hospitals Physician Profile
David Agle, MD - University Hospitals Physician Profile
Jeanne Lackamp, MD - University Hospitals Physician Profile
 Joseph Locala, MD
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Dr. Joseph Locala is director of the Division of Psychiatry and Medicine in the UH Department of Psychiatry and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Case School of Medicine. He serves as program director for the ACGME-accredited Psychosomatic Medicine Fellowship at University Hospitals. Dr. Locala is board certified in both Psychiatry and in the subspecialty of Psychosomatic Medicine.
Dr. Locala attended college at the University of Pennsylvania and medical school at Temple University and completed his psychiatry residency at the University of Vermont/ Medical Center Hospital of Vermont and a fellowship in consultation psychiatry at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. He practiced full-time in the field of consultation psychiatry and held a joint appointment in the Transplant Center during his eleven years as a staff physician with the Cleveland Clinic prior to his move to University Hospitals in July 2006. He graduated from the one-year Mental Health Executive Leadership Program at the Case Weatherhead School of Management in June 2007.
Dr. Locala is current president of the Ohio Psychiatric Physicians Association, a branch of the American Psychiatric Association, and is past president of the Cleveland Psychiatric Society and the Cleveland Consultation-Liaison Society. He has been a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association since 2004. Dr. Locala is in his second term on the Board of Trustees of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)-Ohio. He serves on multiple institutional committees including the Clinical Operations Committee, Quality Oversight Board and the Educational Executive Committee in the Department of Psychiatry and the Ethics Committee for University Hospitals.
Dr. Locala has lectured nationally and internationally and published on many topics relevant to the field of consultation psychiatry, including emergency psychiatry, delirium, dementia, transplant psychiatry, interferon-induced psychiatric disorders, and mood disorders in medically ill patients.
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