Jessica Weeks

I found my path to psychiatry through my volunteer experiences working as a mentor in juvenile detention centers. Helping people with mental illness has become a passion of mine and I am grateful and excited for the opportunities to come. I am currently completing my final year of child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and am looking for an outpatient psychiatry opening. I feel very confident managing children, adolescents, and adults.

• Gold Humanism Honor Society
• American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
• American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry
• American Psychiatric Association
• New Hampshire Psychiatric Society

• Vermont, Full, 11/30/26
• Vermont, Temporary/Limited, 06/30/26
• New Hampshire, Temporary/Limited, 07/31/27

Approved and will be sitting for exam on 09/09/25

• Dartmouth’s Department of Psychiatry Training Clinical Excellence Award, 2024
• Dartmouth’s Department of Psychiatry Outstanding Service Award, 2023
• Second place awardee for poster presentation at the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training, 2023
• PracticeMatch Empowered Physician Scholarship Winner, 2022
• Lambros Siderides, MD Scholarship Award, 2020
• Certificate completion in Social Determinants of Health and Disparities through UConn Health, 2020
• 2017 commencement student speaker at SUNY New Paltz, 2017
• SUNY Chancellor's Award, 2017
• Student Excellence Award, 2017
• Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges Award, 2017

• Upper Valley Human Rights Volunteer, Current, Trained in and completed forensic psychiatric evaluations for patients seeking asylum status
• New Hampshire Psychiatric Society Board Member, 2022-2024, Social Events Coordinator (2022-2023), Psychiatry Residency Representative (2023-2024)
• Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center’s Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) Program, 2024, Participated in the JEDI program through Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
• Safety Evaluation Educator for Good Neighbor Health Clinic, 2023-2024, Worked part time at a local free health clinic in White River Junction, VT and trained the team on crisis evaluations
• Social Chair for Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center’s Adult Psychiatry Residency, 2022-2023
• Better Futures Volunteer Program through UConn Health, 2018-2020, Established a mentorship program between UConn medical/dental students and the Hartford Juvenile Detention Center's long-term male population
• Mental Health Education YouTube Channel, 2020, Created a YouTube channel called 'Mental Health Education' to teach non-medical professionals about mental health topics
• Celebrating Seniors Volunteer Program through UConn Health, 2018-2020, Designed and founded a volunteer program between UConn Health and a local nursing home, Amberwoods of Farmington
• Urban Service Track (UST) through UConn Health, 2017-2021, Volunteered at and led countless community outreach projects in medical school

Advocacy Curriculum for Psychiatry Residency at Dartmouth Hitchcock, Current

• Developed four-session course on systems level advocacy for psychiatry training
• Developed educational materials for residency training program
• Researched best practices in medical education to inform curriculum design
• Presented curriculum to enhance residents' advocacy knowledge and skills

• Learning How to Advocate: A New Curriculum for Psychiatry Residents, submitted and under review through Academic Psychiatry, educational case report on advocacy curriculum developed at Dartmouth Hitchcock
• Retrospective Analysis of the Validity of I-HAVAT Compared to RISC Assessment, worked on a team during medical school dedicated to studying and understanding patients with violent/homicidal behaviors
• UConn Medical/Dental School Mentorship Program at a Juvenile Detention Center, completed a small program evaluation of my developed juvenile detention center mentorship program during medical school
• Link between Depression and Loneliness in the Hispanic and Black Elderly Male Hartford Population, conducted a retrospective chart review of interviews collected from residents of assisted living facilities

• Learning to Advocate: A Guide for Psychiatry Trainees Workshop, American Psychiatric Association, 2024 Annual Meeting
• Managing Agitated Patients, American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training, 2023 Annual Meeting
• Learning to Advocate: A Guide for Psychiatry Trainees, Poster presented at the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training, 2023 Annual Meeting
• UConn Medical/Dental School Mentorship Program at a Juvenile Detention Center a Small Program Evaluation, Poster presented at American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 67th Annual Meeting
• Link between Depression and Loneliness in the Hispanic and Black Elderly Male Hartford Population, Poster presented at UConn Health’s 2019 Summer Research Symposium