The Erie County Medical Center (ECMC) is a Level I Trauma Center, as academic medical center with nearly 600 inpatient beds, primary care, more than 30 specialty outpatient clinics, the regional center of excellence for behavioral health, trauma, and rehabilitation and home to our Comprehensive Psychiatry Emergency Program (CPEP).
CPEP is staffed by faculty with unique clinical expertise and skills, ready to work with trainees in this specialized patient-care setting and committed to identifying and treating behavioral health emergencies in service of the community's mental health treatment needs.
It is at the hub of a diverse and robust system of care that our CPEP faculty excel in understanding and navigating, to facilitate the provision of comprehensive care for our patients and expert clinical teaching experience for the trainees.
An Emergency Psychiatry Fellowship curriculum has been developed to guide the learning experience. Please contact Victoria Brooks, MD for more information.
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Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry; CPEP Medical Director of Education and Community Coordination; Emergency Psychiatry Fellowship Program Director
Erie County Medical Center, CPEP 462 Grider Street Buffalo, NY 14215
Phone: 716-898-4857; Fax: 716-898-4538
Email: vlbrooks@buffalo.edu