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General Psychiatry Residency Program

Our team provides mental healthcare access specific education to psychiatry residents throughout the four years of general training.  

The ACCESS Mental Health Curriculum includes didactic sessions on topics impacting mental healthcare access, quality, and outcomes. Topics include a focus on self-awareness, cultural humility, social determinants of health, mental healthcare access, community engagement, and physician advocacy.  In addition, teaching faculty are encouraged to integrate mental healthcare access specific content into every didactic and clinical learning environment. 

Common Ground Series allows residents and fellows to engage in monthly discussions with peers, faculty, and staff of the department. Topics have included gentrification, poverty, language access, the educational system, and suicide. 

The ACCESS Mental Health Residency Track 

The ACCESS Mental Health residency track provides selected PGY2-PGY4 psychiatry residents with opportunities for a deeper dive into issues impacting mental health access. The 3-year track provides: 

  • Protected time to engage in mental healthcare access related activities  
  • Didactic and experiential learning opportunities (group and independent) 
  • Development of a project focused on an area of interest of the psychiatry resident 
  • Engagement in pathway development, clinician education, community collaborations, and efforts to improve healthcare access and treatment outcomes within the local system of care 

 

ACCESS Mental Health Track Residents 

Angela Clayborne, MD 

PGY4
2023-2026 
Psychiatry 

ACCESS Mental Health thus far has been ​integral in helping me build my skills and confidence when it comes to networking, participating in research, and identifying the qualities I wish to have as a fully licensed psychiatrist. It has further developed my passion for ensuring access to high quality care for all populations and enhancing cultural compassion in my fellow mental health professionals. I truly feel this program is indispensable in ensuring the continuing success of UNC’s Psychiatry program in training culturally competent and well-rounded physicians. 

Current project strives to help bridge the gap between Christian faith communities in rural areas and mental health, specifically African Methodist Episcopal (AME) churches in Johnston County, by tailoring the Y-MHFA training in an attempt to make it more culturally relevant to strengthen community leaders’ ability to assist youth in their mental health challenges. 

 

Rachel Harrison, MD 

PGY4
2023-2026 
Psychiatry

The ACCESS Mental Health in the Psychiatry residency program has been an invaluable opportunity to commit time and effort towards mental healthcare access projects. As part of the LGBTQ+ community, I have been able to use dedicated time and funds to create a didactic session to introduce residents to basic mental healthcare access barriers faced by the gender diverse community and discuss the psychiatrist’s role in the process of patients seeking quality mental healthcare.

Ultimately, I hope to bring this session to the department at large. Additionally, through the track we are able to host the monthly Common Ground Series which has been a wonderful way to get together with colleagues of many disciplines to discuss various topics related to mental healthcare access and consider how we practice and deliver mental healthcare to all communities in our state.
 

 

Katelyn Einloth, MD 

PGY3
2024-2027 
Psychiatry

The ACCESS Mental Health track was part of what attracted me to UNC when I was applying to residency programs. My interests in health equity are vast, and I am particularly passionate about working with patients who are unhoused and / or have been incarcerated. Through the ACCESS Mental Health Track, I have become involved with UNC’s Formerly Incarcerated Transition (FIT) Program, which provides physical and mental healthcare to people who have recently been released from incarceration. I am currently working with my mentor, Dr. Ted Zarzar, to develop a project that allows patients to share their lived experiences while exploring their unique mental healthcare wants and needs. Ultimately, I hope to share what I have learned with my co-residents so that we can effectively treat formerly-incarcerated patients with consideration and compassion.

 

Brianna Simmons, MD

2025-2028 
Psychiatry 

Dr. Simmons joined the ACCESS MH Track in July 2025. She is interested in addressing barriers impacting mental health access within rural and under-resourced communities of North Carolina.

 

 

Melanie Marcille, MD 

PGY2 
2025-2028 
Psychiatry 

Dr. Marcille joined the ACCESS MH Track in July 2025. She is interested in addressing barriers impacting mental healthcare access and outcomes for women.

 

 

Former ACCESS Mental Health Track Residents  

Asif Khan, MD 

2022-2025 
Psychiatry 

Asif Khan’s primary ACCESS Mental Health project sought to improve access to language interpreters and accessibility assistance across UNC Psychiatry. To achieve this goal, he has created an interdisciplinary team and a clinic-based workflow to collect baseline data and educate trainees, faculty, and staff to implement best practice recommendations. As the following steps to this first-of-a-kind initiative, Dr. Khan plans to collaborate closely with in-house interpreter services to enhance mental health interpretation training and explore quality improvement projects based on continuous data collection and informatics.  

In the long term, he hopes to collaborate across other departments and cross-sector. Notably, Dr. Khan founded Refugee Community Partnership, a local innovative non-profit that has been creating systems to connect refugee people to the resources they need and mobilize institutions to eliminate socioeconomic barriers since 2011.  

He has conceptualized a unique Language Navigators Program through his non-profit that has secured grants from the North Carolina Health Care Foundation, Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, Kate B. Reynolds Foundation, among others, totaling more than $1.5 million in financial support to date. 

 

Enioluwafe Ojo, MD, MPH 

2022-current
Psychiatry 

The ACCESS Mental Health Track has changed my career and transformed my time in residency. Below are the highlights:  

  • Award APA Diversity Fellow: One of 20 residents selected 
  • Lead Editor and cofounder of Special Edition of NCPA Quarterly Newsletter (August 2023) that highlighted perspectives of psychiatry residents from minoritized and marginalized communities regarding provision of mental healthcare to various communities throughout North Carolina
  • Developing mentorship skills: I have been working closely with four mentees for 18 months, including an MS4 who matched in one of their top choices, an MS3 who is leading an IRB research project, and an undergraduate who is completing a year-long research project in the Markovetz Lab.  
  • Recruitment: Attended multiple events to recruit future residents (including National Leadership Institute and APA conferences) 
  • Research: Completing my first IRB as a resident 
  • Personal Care Products Project: Improve access to inclusive personal care products for patients admitted to psychiatry inpatient units