Our Team
Geropsychiatry Faculty
Amy Abramowitz, MD
Dr. Abramowitz is a geriatric psychiatrist specializing in taking care of older adults with mental health and neurocognitive disorders. She works primarily in the outpatient setting in both the Department of Psychiatry and the Department of Neurology. Dr. Abramowitz is also interested in teaching and research.
“Older adults often present with fascinating diagnostic challenges and because they provide an opportunity for a strong physician-patient relationship. Older adults with mental illness are particularly vulnerable, and I find it to be extraordinarily gratifying to work with this population and advocate on their behalf. It is a privilege to help people confront the changes that come with aging, partner with their families, and to be part of their journey during this new phase of life.”
Zach Cohen, MD
Dr. Cohen is a geriatric psychiatrist who sees patients in UNC Psychiatry’s outpatient clinic, UNC Neurology’s cognitive disorders and Huntington’s Disease clinics, and The Cedars of Chapel Hill retirement community. He also works on UNC’s electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) service. His academic and clinical interests include the treatment of insomnia in older adults, and managing behavioral and psychological symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease, Huntington’s Disease, and other neurodegenerative disorders. He is excited to be assisting Dr. Amy Abramowitz in establishing UNC’s new geriatric psychiatry fellowship.
“I realize that as a kid, I always found myself gravitating towards the older adults at family gatherings. I would ask them questions about their lives, ranging from how they had experienced wartime to matters as trivial as whether Kit-Kats were around when they were growing up – and manifold other curiosities. Later, in adolescence, I was confused but fascinated by witnessing some of my older relatives decline in their cognitive function and others seem to thrive and evolve more than ever.
Yet I didn’t consider specializing in a geriatric field until I came to UNC for psychiatry residency and had the opportunity to work with the department’s extraordinary faculty in treating older adults in our dedicated geropsych clinic and inpatient unit. I found gratification in helping to navigate issues like isolation, medical illness, cognitive impairment, and the end of life, while also sharing in the insights, achievements, and adaptability that I saw emerge in older age.”
Kelsey Johnson, MD
Dr. Johnson is a geriatric psychiatrist who specializes in treating mental health concerns and neurocognitive disorders in older adults. She works in inpatient , outpatient , and long term care settings. Her areas of interest include the behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia , caregiver burnout , and resident education.
Lisa Herrera, MD, MPH
Dr. Lisa M Herrera is a new outpatient attending working primarily at Vilcom Center. Her focus will be the treatment of mood disorders for adult patients with a focus on older aged adults. She is eager to bolster the geriatric psychiatry specialty at UNC as we welcome our first geriatric psychiatry fellow this next academic year! Her professional interests include interventional psychiatry (ECT, TMS, and ketamine), HIV psychiatry with a focus on the impact of older age populations, and clinical education including pipeline programs that encourage young minds to be interested in the importance of mental health. Her research interest includes community-based participatory research on public health concerns with the aim of bringing about positive change for communities.
Fellow 2025-2026
Michael Weber, MD
“Caring for older adults is a longstanding passion of mine. From working as a hospice volunteer in high school, to pursuing a fellowship in geriatric psychiatry, I have always enjoyed learning from the unique circumstances and experiences of older adults.”
Affiliated Faculty
Robert McClure, MD
Dr. McClure is a board-certified general adult psychiatrist with clinical expertise in the management of schizophrenia and psychotic disorders. Clinical responsibilities include call at UNC, attending on the UNC Psychotic Disorders Unit and seeing outpatients in the VGFW Mental Health System. Dr. McClure has scientific expertise that includes the acquisition, analysis and interpretation of neuroimaging data in schizophrenia. His scientific interests include the use of neuroimaging measures for studying the genetics of schizophrenia.
Bill Scheidler, MD
Dr. Scheidler is an Assistant Professor at UNC with an appointment in the Department of Psychiatry. Clinically, he focuses on providing psychiatric care for patients with medical and/or surgical illness in both the inpatient and outpatient settings. He serves as an attending physician for the consultation-liaison psychiatry service at both UNC-Chapel Hill and UNC-Hillsborough, serving as the service director for the latter. He serves as Training Director for the Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship at UNC. He also works directly to support and promote the mental health needs of other physicians in addition to the promotion of wellness initiatives as Associate Director for UNC’s Taking Care of Our Own Program. He is board certified in both General Psychiatry and Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry.
Maureen Dale, MD
Geriatric Medicine
Outpatient primary geriatric care, geriatric syndromes including frailty and cognitive impairment, care of hospitalized older adults, graduate medical education in geriatrics
Heidi Roth, MD
Neurology
Diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders, dementia and memory loss, language disorders including aphasia (consultant and co-investigator with the Center for Aphasia and Related Disorders), sleep, and aging.
Ana Felix, MBBCh, FAAN
Neurology/Internal medicine
I practice compassionate, yet evidence based neurology with a focus on patient centered care, medical education and a focus on general neurology.