Emily Aquadro, MD
Associate Medical Director, Chatham BHCC
Staff Psychiatrist of the Sleep and TMS Clinics
Medical School: Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA
Residency: Gateway CSB, Savannah, GA
Dr. Aquadro is passionate about providing psychiatric care, particularly to the undeserved community. She served as chief resident in the first inaugural class of Gateway residency program, and chose to stay with Gateway after graduation to continue to provide psychiatric care. She strives to bring continual development of psychiatric treatment and training resources to the community.
With a particular interest in the integration of neurology and sleep in psychiatry, Dr. Aquadro is working to increase the availability of resources within Gateway CSB through the TMS and sleep clinics. She additionally enjoys research and a continual intellectual questioning of new possibilities for treatment options.
William F. Shivers, MD
Medical Director, Brunswick Behavioral Health Crisis Center
Medical School: Medical University of South Carolina; Charleston, SC
Residency: Eisenhower Army Hospital; Fort Gordon, GA
Dr. William F. Shivers is a Board Certified Psychiatrist with 40 years of clinical experience in a variety of settings. His first "clinical" experience was gained as a combat medic with the First Air Calvary during the Viet Nam War. His interest in working with individuals suffering from PTSD had its roots there.
He trained at Walter Reed and Eisenhower Army Medical Centers. He served as faculty at Eisenhower and the Medical College of Georgia during his 14 years of active military duty. During these years he was the Internship, Director of Research, and Assistant Chief in the Department of Psychiatry and Neurology, working closely with residents.
In 1987 he relocated to St. Simons Island on the Georgia coast where he opened a private practice. He has continued to work with medical students, other health care professionals and with public health services in Georgia such as Gateway CSB, community hospitals. He is the Medical Director of a geropsychiatric in the Mayo Clinic system.
Training has been one of Dr. Shivers’ passions over the years. He has enjoyed various faculty appointments, most recently at Mercer Medical School and the Medical College of Georgia and is keenly interested in developing the next generation of psychiatrists as highly competent, highly qualified practitioners in the community.
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.
Barry Krakow, MD
Director of Sleep Medicine
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health
Medical School: University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
Residency & Board Certification:
- Internal Medicine at the University of New Mexico Hospital, Albuquerque, NM
- Sleep Medicine
- University of New Mexico Hospital Sleep Disorders Center, Albuquerque, NM
- Stanford Sleep Medicine Center, Palo Alto, CA
Dr. Krakow’s career in sleep began in 1998 when he joined Dr. Robert Kellner and Dr. Joseph Neidhardt in the development of Imagery Rehearsal Therapy (IRT) for the treatment of chronic nightmares. He has worked extensively with psychiatrists and mental health professionals.
He has published widely on the nature of sleep problems in psychiatric patients, demonstrating how sleep disorders run concurrently with mental illness and require independent, evidence-based non-pharmacologic sleep medicine therapies
He has written six books, five on sleep medicine and one on golf instruction. His most recent work, Life Saving Sleep: New Horizons in Mental Health Treatment is written for both mental health patients and professionals.
Dr. Krakow is a practicing sleep medicine specialist and clinical sleep researcher focusing on the diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders in mental health patients. His career includes serving as Medical director and principal investigator of the non-profit research entity, the Sleep & Human Health Institute since 1999 and the former owner and Medical Director of Maimonides Sleep Arts & Sciences, a community-based sleep medical center.
Dr. Krakow and his wife Jessica moved to Savannah in 2020 with their two dogs and a cat and frequently visit their daughter, son-in-law and two grandsons in Virginia. Their son lives and works in Albuquerque, NM. Napping is an occasional pastime for every member of the family.
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.