Cara Angelotta, MD

Bio

Cara Angelotta, MD, is vice chair for education for psychiatry and residency program director. She is board-certified in general and forensic psychiatry. She graduated from Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. She completed residency at Cornell University and fellowship at Columbia University. She has served as the director of medical student education in psychiatry, psychiatry clerkship director, and forensic psychiatry fellowship program director for Northwestern.

Dr. Angelotta's academic focus is medical education research, mentorship, curriculum design, and teaching clinical education skills to psychiatry trainees. She also has a research interest in the intersection of reproductive psychiatry and the law, in particular, unrecognized pregnancy and the criminalization of pregnancy.