Robert M Rohrbaugh MD
Professor of Psychiatry; Deputy Chair for Education and Career Development, Department of Psychiatry; Residency Program Director, Department of Psychiatry; Director, Office of International Medical Student Education, Yale School of Medicine

Departments & Organizations
Office of International Medical Student Education: DirectorsGlobal Health Initiative: HIV/AIDS
Yale/Stanford J&J Global Health Scholars Program
Psychiatry: Division of Aging & Geriatric Psychiatry
Biography
A graduate of Franklin and Marshall College, Yale School of Medicine and the Yale Psychiatry residency program, Dr. Rohrbaugh has been a member of the Yale Department of Psychiatry faculty since 1988. Dr. Rohrbaugh's clinical, educational and research interests have been at the interface of geropsychiatry and medicine. He has been Chief of the Psychiatry Consult service at VA-Connecticut and developed the geropsychiatry service and the psychiatry primary care clinic at VA-Connecticut. He has been active in medical student and residency education and has served as the Clerkship Director and Director of Medical Studies for medical student education and as Associate Program Director before assuming the Program Director role in 2008. In 2009, Dr. Rohrbaugh was named Deputy Chair for Education and Career Development, extending his role in education to faculty in the department. Most recently, Dr. Rohrbaugh has become interested in education of medical students and residents in international settings and has been named Director of the Office of International Medical Student Education.Education
- B.A., Franklin and Marshall College , 1978
- M.D., Yale University , 1982
Selected Publication
- Rohrbaugh, RM, Borysiuk L, Federman DG and Sernyak MJ: Utilizing VA Information Technology to Develop Psychiatry Resident Prescription Profiles. Academic Psychiatry 2009; 33: 27-30.
Latest Honor and Recognition
- Alvin Feinstein Award for Exemplary Teaching of Clinical Skills(2009) , Yale School of Medicine
Articles

Autumn 2010
Faculty and students bid farewell to someone who “does everything”
When it came time to bid farewell to Gisella Weissbach-Licht, no one could think of anything that she didn’t do during...
Spring 2009
A day to reflect on becoming a doctor
The Class of 2009 enters medicine at a time of change amidst an ongoing debate over health care.

Autumn 2009
A day to reflect on becoming a doctor
For the 96 members of the Class of 2009, Commencement was a day of sunshine and serious reflection on the nature and...

Autumn 2012
Yale doctors around the world
As a medical student in South India in the mid-1980s, Unni Karunakara, M.P.H. ’95, Dr.Ph., read a magazine article that...

Autumn 2011
Exchange program brings Ugandan and Chinese med students to Yale
Adam Sang, a fifth-year medical student, placed empty water bottles and soda cans in the shape of a diamond on a picnic...



