Beatrix Roemheld-Hamm MD, PhD

Beatrix Roemheld-Hamm is a Professor at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, with academic appointment in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, the Department of Psychiatry at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and the UMDNJ Institute of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (ICAM). For many years, Dr. Hamm was medical director of the department’s clinical site, guiding a number of innovations in clinical health delivery, including the transition to electronic health records. She completed a health services research fellowship, and was involved in many research projects with foci on mental health and primary care integration, primary care delivery, physician errors and integrative medicine. Presently, Dr. Hamm serves as Associate Director of the RWJUH Family Medicine residency program. She guides residents’ scholarly efforts during their residency, and teaches mental health, health behaviors and integrative medicine to students, residents and faculty. She serves as PI on a study on integration of behavioral health into the Family Medicine teaching site, and co-mentors psychology graduate students in this area, and as co-investigator of projects involving nonpharmacologic approaches to medical problems. As Director of Integrative Medicine at the department of Family Medicine and Community Health, she represents ICAM and UMDNJ at the clinical workgroup of CAHCIM, the US Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine.