Clinical Services

Chitra Malur, M.D. is Assistant Chief of Service in the Department of Psychiatry. Outpatient clinical services are provided for adults of all ages and children and adolescents through the Department's Faculty Practice ambulatory care services. Acute care services are provided at University Hospital

Out-Patient:

Department of Psychiatry Faculty provide psychiatric and psychological consultation and services in the Behavioral Health Sciences Building (in Room E-1547) on the Newark Campus (973-972-2977) and at the satellite practice: Maplewood Psychiatric Associates, 111 Dunnell Road, Maplewood 07040, 973-761-7134. Practitioners have a wide range of expertise in psychiatry.

Acute Care:

University Hospital Psychiatric Emergency Services (973-972-6134) provide acute care in a 6 bed emergency psychiatry unit.   In coordination with the Screening Center, staffed by University Behavioral Health Care, psychiatric physicians determine the need for stabilization and hospitalization.  

Inpatient psychiatric services are provided at UH on the 34 -bed G Yellow unit where multi-disciplinary treatments teams provide a full range of psychiatric treatment.  

Consultation Liason:

The UH Psychiatry Consultation Liaison Service provides consultation to the medical and surgical teams at UH.

Neuropsychologists provide assessments and testing for a wide range of patients with learning disabilities, traumatic brain injury, epilepsy and other disorders.

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