Nerissa Price, MD, joined the UNC Wake STEP (Schizophrenia Treatment and Evaluation Program) Clinic in December 2015 as assistant professor and was named medical director on April 1. 
“Dr. Price brings a strong commitment to her patients and a vision for how the Wake STEP clinic can build on its successes to provide expanded services to the patients we serve,” said John Gilmore, director of the Center. “I’m looking forward to working with her and the rest of the staff at Wake STEP as we advance the Center’s mission of improving the lives of those with mental illness in Wake County.”
Dr. Price is a graduate of North Carolina State University and received her medical degree in 2000 from UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine. She also completed both her general psychiatry residency and child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at UNC-CH.
After psychiatry training, she worked at the UNC School of Medicine’s office of special programs, and helped run its nationally recognized summer program for underrepresented minority and disadvantaged students. She also served on the School of Medicine’s admission committee.
Before joining the Center, Dr. Price was a staff psychiatrist at the North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women in the North Carolina Department of Public Safety for 4 ½ years, working in Raleigh and at the Fountain Correctional in Rocky Mount. She has also worked in private practice at Cary Behavioral and was part of an Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) team at Easter Seals UCP of North Carolina and Virginia (Raleigh).
“I believe that everyone deserves thoughtful, person-centered, evidence-based treatment” she says. “As a native of Wake County, I have a particular interest in ensuring that Wake County’s mentally ill populations get excellent care, which I believe UNC is uniquely equipped to give.”