Reemon Bishara, MD
Clinical Director, Georgia Regional Hospital of Savannah
Medical School: J.W.G. University; Frankfurt, Germany
Residency: Harvard South Shore Training Program; Brockton, MA
Fellowship: Payne Whitney Clinic, Cornell University; New York, NY
Dr. Reemon Bishara is the Clinical Director for Georgia Regional Hospital of Savannah. In addition to his duties at GRHS, he serves as Medical Director for Coastal Harbor Health System.
Dr. Bishara received his M.D. in 1992 from J.W.G. University in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He has worked in several disciplines of psychiatry, including child, adolescent, family and adult care.
Dr. Bishara served as the Medical Director of the Outpatient Clinic at the Child and Family Institute of St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital in New York City before moving to Savannah. During his time as Medical Director of the Outpatient Clinic, he was awarded Supervisor of the Year. Dr. Bishara is double board-certified through the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in adult, child and adolescent psychiatry, and certified to administer Buprenorphine.
Stephen Yost, DO
Medical Director, Memorial University Medical Center
Medical School: Oklahoma College of Osteopathic Medicine; Tulsa, OK
Residency: Mayo Medical School; Rochester, MN
Dr. Yost did his residency in Psychiatry at the Mayo Medical School from 1994-1998. He received his D.O. at The Oklahoma College of Osteopathic Medicine in 1986.
Dr. Yost is currently the Medical Director of the Memorial University Medical Center – Center for Behavioral Medicine, and the Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at Mercer School of Medicine-Savannah Campus. He is a regular speaker for the Savannah community regarding mental health issues when requested by the media, be it TV, radio, or seminar panels.
Dr. Yost very much enjoys teaching and supervising residents and medical students.
Edward M. Drohan, PHD
Psychologist
Edward M. Drohan, Ph.D is a clinical and consulting psychologist. He currently serves as a Supervising Psychologist at Gateway CSB. Following a ten year career in banking, he entered then received his doctorate from Georgia State University in 1987. Dr. Drohan has maintained clinical practices psychotherapy and consulting psychology in Atlanta and Decatur, GA, Washington, D.C. and currently has his private practice in Thunderbolt, GA. He also serves as Chief of the Psychology Section at Memorial Health University Medical Center and established the Psychology Consulting Service there serving adults, children and families in both inpatient and outpatient settings. He brings a long background of program development and organizational management in government agencies and private industry. When asked he will say “I am a psychotherapist.” It remains his passion after nearly three decades.
Alexandra Dodd, MD
Psychiatrist
Medical School: Medical College of Georgia; Augusta, GA
Residency: University of South Carolina; Greenville, SC
Dr. Dodd is a psychiatrist at Gateway Behavioral Health Services in Savannah, GA, serving as an attending physician for the resident rotations at the outpatient Azalea Clinic, same-day access clinic at the BHCC, and telepsychiatry. She is also the ACT team psychiatrist for AmericanWork's Savannah Assertive Community Treatment team, where she specializes in community treatment of adults with severe and persistent mental illness. Dr. Dodd is a graduate of the University of Georgia Honors Program in Athens, GA, where she completed her B.S. in Chemistry in 2013, and a graduate of the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta, GA, where she completed her Medical Doctorate in 2017. She completed her psychiatry residency training at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville Psychiatry Residency Program, where she also served as chief resident, and moonlighted at South Carolina Department of Mental Health's Patrick B Harris Psychiatric Hospital and at Prisma Health- Marshall I Pickens hospital.
Dr. Dodd has had a passion for teaching since a young age, and has assisted and directed educational activities for learners ranging from 4th grade science students, to high school, undergraduate, medical school, and graduate medical education.
In addition to providing clinical supervision, she enjoys teaching didactics and assisting residents with board preparation. She is delighted to be in beautiful seaside Savannah, and when not providing psychiatric care or teaching, likes to spend time on reading, gardening, travel, and music.
Shawn Kirby, DO
Psychiatrist
Medical School: Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine, Erie, PA
Residency: Larkin Community Hospital, Miami, FL
Dr. Kirby graduated from Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine in 2014 and completed a psychiatric residency at Larkin Community Hospital (Miami, Florida) in 2018. Dr. Kirby has been employed in various settings including acute inpatient, procedural psychiatry, community outpatient, consult and liaison psychiatry, partial hospitalization programs and telehealth. Many of these positions have come with academic affiliations including Tufts Medical School as well as Harvard Medical School. These positions have also included administration roles including medical directorship as well as department chief.
Dr. Kirby has special interests in psychopharmacology as well as procedural psychiatry including electroconvulsive therapy (Duke fellowship trained), transcranial magnetic stimulation and ketamine (intravenous and intranasal).
Anna Jackson, MD
Forensic Psychiatrist
Medical School: University of South Carolina; Columbia, SC
Residency: Vanderbilt University Medical Center; Nashville, TN
Fellowship: Forensic Psychiatry, Emory University; Atlanta, GA
Dr. Jackson is an outpatient psychiatrist at Gateway and JC Lewis primary care center, a Federally Qualified Health Center, and also has a private practice in forensic psychiatry. She has special interests in both first episode psychosis and treating the psychiatric needs of those experiencing homelessness. She is the psychiatrist for Gateway’s first episode psychosis program as well as the JC Lewis street psychiatry team.
Dr. Jackson enjoys spending time with her husband and two dogs, exploring Savannah, reading, and traveling.
Lee Hyer, PHD, ABPP
Psychologist
Dr. Hyer is the author of over 300 articles and book chapters, as well as five books. He has just completed a new book “Older Adults: Assessment and Clinical Treatment Model for Holistic Care..” He has also had over 70 grants from all sources, government and industry. He directs the Memory Project at Mercer, the Parkinson’s Disease Program at Mercer, and the Traumatic Brain Injury Program. In addition, he is a professor at the PhD program in Clinical Medical Psychology at Mercer School of Public Health. He teaches PhD Medical psychology students, geriatric fellows, and medical students. He is licensed in two states and is boarded in psychology (ABPP).
Recently he retired from the Georgia Neurosurgical Institute and Mercer School of Medicine.
Dr. Hyer specialized in older adults and brain disorders. He targeted cognitive decline, largely older adults with mild cognitive decline and dementia. In addition to cognition, his model for older adults includes depression, anxiety, health, and life adjustment. He directed a Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Clinic at Family Medicine. He has been active too with pain patients, those with general pain issues and those with back problems seeking a spinal cord surgery. He has recently published also on the assessment and adjustment of heart patients, especially LVAD patients. Finally, he has been involved in the assessment and treatment of patients seeking bariatric surgery. He is now living in Savannah GA, and is involved as Professor in the new Psychiatry Residency Program at Gateway Behavioral Health and Mercer School of Medicine.
Dr. Hyer is a psychology board (ABPP) in clinical psychology. He has been awarded Distinguished Psychologist in the VA system 6 times and has been awarded accolades from University of Medicine and Dentistry (UMDNJ), Medical College of Georgia (MCG), and Mercer School of Medicine.
Claudia González, PsyD.
Clinical Psychologist
Doctoral Program: Albizu University (APA accredited) Miami, Fl.
Internship: Cambridge Health Alliance-Harvard Medical School
Fellowship: Boston Children's Hospital-Harvard Medical School
Claudia González, PsyD. is a bilingual clinical psychologist. She is the owner and founder of Goal Mentality, LLC a private practice where she helps busy professional women and Spanish speakers who feel stressed, isolated, and burnt-out, create a plan for success in relationships and work life. Dr. G. (as most of her patients call her) completed her training at Harvard-affiliated teaching hospitals specializing in refugee mental health and the treatment of mood disorders in immigrant youth. She draws from contemporary psychodynamic theory, evidenced-based treatments, and culturally responsive techniques of psychotherapy to help her patients overcome challenges and achieve their therapy goals. She is also passionate about teaching and supervising the next generation of mental health providers.
Paige Marnell, MD
Psychiatrist
Medical School: New York Medical College; Valhalla, NY
Residency: The University of Chicago; Chicago, IL
Fellowship: Addiction Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern; Dallas, TX
Dr. Marnell is board-certified in Addiction Medicine by the American Board of Preventative Medicine and General Psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. She completed her residency training at The University of Chicago and fellowship training in Addiction Psychiatry at the University of Texas Southwestern. She is passionate about expanding addiction graduate medical education, recently developing an Addiction Medicine Fellowship Program at her institution where she currently serves as the Program Director. Furthermore, she broadened the core general psychiatry curriculum to include extensive addiction training, yielding addiction-competent graduates. She is a fierce advocate for ensuring widespread MOUD access to all persons in her community and created the first community-based harm reduction program in Chatham County. She has served in multiple leadership roles including the Board of Trustees for the Georgia Psychiatric Physicians Association, Medical Director of Addiction Treatment Services for Magnolia/Gateway Community Service Board, and has a faculty appointment in the Department of Psychiatry, Mercer University School of Medicine.
She lives in beloved Savannah, GA with her husband, two daughters, and senior retired-racing greyhound, Samson.