Medical Director of Psychiatry, Memorial Regional Hospital and Program Director Psychiatry Residency
Memorial Healthcare System
Jorge Luis Sotelo, M.D. is Medical Director of Psychiatry at Memorial Regional Hospital and Program Director of the Memorial Healthcare System Psychiatry Residency.
Dr. Sotelo is a highly experienced clinician in the treatment of patients with medical and psychiatric comorbidities, mood and anxiety disorders, as well as schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders. After graduating from the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital psychiatry residency program in 2003, he completed a CL psychiatry fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and a neuropsychiatry fellowship at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center. He worked as associate psychiatrist at McLean Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital specializing in the treatment of patients with psychosis, mood, and anxiety disorders and was awarded the Ed Messner Faculty Award by the junior residents of the MGH/McLean Psychiatry Residency Training Program in 2007.
He was assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Miami School of Medicine from 2007 until 2016 and held leadership positions in medical student education and in fellowship training during his time there. He also worked closely with the department of transplant surgery at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital and conducted pre-transplant evaluations for all solid organ transplant types. He joined Memorial Regional Hospital in January of 2017 and oversees the care of patients receiving psychiatric treatment at the hospital. In June of 2017 he was selected as the inaugural program director for the psychiatry residency.
Dr. Sotelo is a fellow of the ACLP and of the APA and is board certified in both specialties.