Kelly Cozza, MD, DLFAPA, FACLP

Education

Creighton University School of Medicine, MD 1987
Walter Reed Army Medical Center Categorical Psychiatry Internship and Psychiatry Residency 1987-1990
Walter Reed Army Medical Center Consultation-Liaison Fellowship 1992-1993

Biography

Kelly L. Cozza, MD, DLFAPA, FACLP is a Professor of Psychiatry at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) and National Capital Consortium Psychiatry Residency Program, a senior faculty-clinician at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, and a scientist for the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress (CSTS) at USU in Maryland. She serves as Vice Chair for the Department of Psychiatry, leading the undergraduate medical education division, and also is the Director of Department of Psychiatry Faculty Development, Academic Appointments, and Promotions.

Dr. Kelly Cozza received her medical degree from Creighton University in 1987, and completed her psychiatric residency at Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC) in Washington DC in 1991. She served as the 3rd Armored Division Psychiatrist and Surgeon in Frankfurt, Germany, after which she completed her Psychiatry Consultation-Liaison Fellowship at Walter Reed in 1993, then assumed the role of Chief and Fellowship Director of the Walter Reed Psychiatry Consultation-Liaison Service (1994-1997). After leaving the military, she became the integrated HIV psychiatrist on the Infectious Disease Service in the Department of Medicine at Walter Reed and for the Department of Defense from 1997-2006. She has more than 30 years of experience in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry (Medical-Surgical Psychiatry) and medical education.

Dr. Kelly Cozza has published and lectured extensively in the areas of psychopharmacology, HIV/AIDS, and medical education. She is a founding member and former co-chair of the World Psychiatric Association Workgroup for HIV and the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry (ACLP) Special Interest Group (SIG) for HIV. She is active in the ACLP Medical Student Education Subcommittee and an expert contributor for the ACLP Quarterly HIV-related Annotations on Journal Articles of Interest (https://www.clpsychiatry.org/educationcareers/annotated-abstracts/). Dr. Cozza is a publishing eModule member of the Association of Directors of Medical Student Education in Psychiatry (ADMSEP) Clinical Simulation Initiative Committee (https://www.admsep.org/csi-emodules.php?c=taskforce). Her current areas of clinical and research interest include HIV, psychopharmacology, collaborative care of medically complicated patients, and psychiatric education for medical students and residents. She and her USU Medical Education Team have developed synchronous, asynchronous, tele-simulation, and tele-health undergraduate medical educational materials that have a global audience and impact. Please view more at: KLCozza Researchgate