Speaker
Zheala Qayyum
MD, MMSc Training Director, Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship Boston Children’s Hospital Associate Training Director, Triple Board Residency Program, Boston Children’s Hospital-Tufts Medical Center Associate Director of Medical Student Education in Psychiatry & Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Biography
Dr. Zheala Qayyum is the Training Director for the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship Program at Boston Children’s Hospital, and the Associate Training director for the Boston Children’s Hospital-Tufts Triple Board program. She is currently Associate Director for medical student education in Psychiatry at Harvard medical school and also holds a faculty appointments at Yale School of Medicine. She trained in child and adolescent psychiatry and consultation liaison psychiatry, and subsequently completed a Master’s in Medical Education at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Qayyum has published on the topics of medical education, the impact of patient suicide on psychiatrists, autism spectrum disorders, inpatient treatment of early psychosis, and risk of youth suicide and firearms. She has particular interest in the areas of supervision and mentorship, psycho-oncology and palliative care.
She also serves as a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army Reserves Medical Corps and deployed to Afghanistan, and later was mobilized in support of the COVID-19 response to New York.