Career Chat: Dr. Emily Morse on Housing as Healing in Community Psychiatry

Guest: Emily Morse, DO, is a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Iowa where she was first drawn to community-based care during her residency training. Her current clinical work spans a variety of settings which include outreach clinics embedded within local permanent supportive housing programs in partnership with Shelter House in Iowa City—an organization that provides comprehensive support services to help individuals move beyond homelessness. She also works as part of interdisciplinary teams that reach patients across Iowa, including one focused on individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and another providing reproductive and perinatal mental health care. Along with her clinical work, she is active in medical education as a psychiatry clerkship co-director, and she enjoys working alongside residents and fellows while aiming to provide accessible, collaborative, and relationship-centered care. Host: Halimah Hamidu-Egiebor, MD, MS, MBA is a psychiatry and internal medicine resident physician at the University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics and a host of The Community Psychiatry Podcast. She is passionate about integrated and collaborative care, community psychiatry, and advocating for mental wellness and systemic change.Social media content creator: Dr. Katherine J Valles is a physician with a background in psychiatry and clinical research, trained at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the NIH. They have published on trauma and geriatric psychiatry and have been active in frontline advocacy for survivors of violence.The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the hosts and guest speakers and are not representative of their employers or affiliated organizations.Created by the American Association for Community Psychiatry (AACP).Free AACP Membership for Medical Students, Residents, and Fellows | Instagram | Twitter | Listener Survey | Follow, review, and share!Credit Attribution: Stock Media provided by StockAudios / Pond5