Director of Public Psychiatry Education

Director of the Columbia Public Psychiatry Fellowship

Professor or Clinical Psychiatry

Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC)

Dr. Le Melle is a Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center. She is currently the Director of Public Psychiatry Education at Columbia University Dept of Psychiatry/ New York State Psychiatric Institute. In this role she acts as the Director of the Public Psychiatry Fellowship, and is the Course Director for Public Psychiatry Education in the Columbia University Psychiatry Residency program. Prior to this position, Dr Le Melle was the Associate Director of the Washington Heights Community Service and then was the Clinical Director of New York State Psychiatric Institute.

Dr Le Melle received her MD from Mt Sinai School of Medicine and MS in Molecular Biology from Hunter College CUNY. Dr Le Melle did an internship and residency in psychiatry at Columbia University and then completed the Public Psychiatry Fellowship also at Columbia.

Dr. Le Melle is interested in public/community psychiatry particularly in the treatment and care of people with serious mental illness (SMI) and/or complex needs. Dr Le Melle has served as an expert advisor and as a member of several local and national committees that are focused on the interface between the legal system and behavioral health. Dr Le Melle was an Expert Advisor to NYC Mayor di Blasio’s Mental Health and the Criminal Justice System at Riker’s Taskforce. She is also a consultant to the American Psychiatric Association Foundation Justice Programs and the Stepping Up Initiative.

Dr. Le Melle was Vice President of the American Association for Community Psychiatry and continues on the board as a Member at Large. She was a member of the MacArthur Network on Mandated Outpatient Treatment, on the National Advisory Board for SAMSHA, and is a Distinguished, Lifetime Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.