Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship Program Director
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Dr. Vanessa Padilla trained as a psychiatrist at the University of Puerto Rico and completed a Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship at the University of Miami (UM). She completed an Electroconvulsive Therapy Visiting Fellowship Certification at the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Padilla serves as an Assistant Professor and as Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship Program Director at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. She is board-certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in Psychiatry and Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry. Her academic position entails clinical education, direct patient care, leadership roles, and clinical research. She provides direct psychiatry consultation services at Jackson Memorial Hospital and supervises the University of Miami outpatient psychiatry resident clinic and perinatal clinic. She collaborates with the Obstetrics team to provide perinatal psychiatric services at Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ambulatory Care Center. She volunteers at San Juan Bosco community clinic, an UM medical-student-run psychiatry clinic. She chairs the UM Graduate Medical Education (GME) Wellness Committee. She is currently a member of the American Psychiatric Association with APA Fellow (FAPA) status, as well as a member of Florida Psychiatric Society, Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, Association for Academic Psychiatry, and The American College of Psychiatrists.