Dr. Manning, former state mental health director, joins MCG faculty
AUGUSTA, Ga. â€" Dr. Donald E. Manning, former medical director of the Georgia Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities, has been named director of public psychiatry for the Department of Psychiatry and Health Behavior in the Medical College of Georgia School of Medicine.
(Media-Newswire.com) - AUGUSTA, Ga. – Dr. Donald E. Manning, former medical director of the Georgia Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities, has been named director of public psychiatry for the Department of Psychiatry and Health Behavior in the Medical College of Georgia School of Medicine.
Dr. Manning also will serve as medical director of East Central Georgia Regional Hospital, a state facility for patients with mental health and developmental disabilities. MCG and the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities assumed joint operation of the facility Oct. 8.
Dr. Manning, a psychiatrist with specialty training in geriatrics and experience in managing graduate medical education programs, also will help expand MCG's residency and fellowship programs in psychiatry and psychology through the new partnership.
"One of the many benefits of this partnership with the Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities is enabling us to significantly expand the education of psychiatrists and psychologists, which, like many health care professionals, are in short supply in our state and nation," Dr. Manning says.
Georgia Regional Hospital and Gracewood State School and Hospital combined about six years ago to form the new facility whose significant patient population includes about 160 adults with mental health problems and 300-400 long-term residents with developmental disabilities.
Dr. Manning also will work with Dr. Juan De Lecuona, clinical director of East Central Georgia Regional Hospital, to recruit and supervise psychiatrists and psychologists for the hospital who will eventually become MCG faculty members.
Dr. Manning has held faculty positions at the Medical University of South Carolina, Emory University School of Medicine, Drexel University College of Medicine ( formerly Hahnemann Medical College and Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania ), Temple University and Creighton University School of Medicine. He has served as chief medical officer for Central State Hospital in Milledgeville, Ga., and Alegent Health in Omaha, Neb., and vice president and medical director of behavioral health at Crozer-Keystone Health System in Springfield, Penn. The former president of the Georgia Psychiatric Physicians Association chairs the group's Community Psychiatry Committee. He is a distinguished life fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a fellow of the American College of Psychiatrists and American College of Physician Executives.
He is a 1972 graduate of the Medical University of South Carolina School of Medicine. He has master's degrees in business administration from California Coast University and in medical management from Tulane University.
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