Current Resident Research Trainees

A. Lee Lewis, M.D. - Fourth Year Resident (2008-2010)
lewisal@musc.edu 

Dr. Lewis is a 4th year resident in the general psychiatry program at the Medical University of SC. He received his BS in psychology with an emphasis in premedical studies from Wofford College in 2000 and his MD form the Medical University of SC in 2006. His research interests include prevention of the progression of abuse to addiction in adolescents by both medicinal and psychotherapeutic techniques, possible techniques to intervene in the early development of character pathology, and investigating the use of dramatic arts to teach societal archetypes to socially and behaviorally maladapted children and adolescents. His future career plans include becoming board certified in general, child and adolescent, and addiction psychiatry in an effort to move toward the development of a partial hospitalization/residential treatment program as a clinical and research center for the treatment of adolescents with comorbid substance abuse disorders and mood/anxiety/personality disorders. When not in clinical or research duties Dr. Lewis can be found performing and teaching improvisational theater with Theatre 99. Dr. Lewis is mentored in the DART program by Dr. Kevin Gray.

Christian F. Reusche, M.D. - Third Year Resident (2009-2011)
reusche@musc.edu

Dr. Reusche is a 3rd year resident in the general psychiatric program at the Medical University of South Carolina.  He received his MD from New Jersey Medical School-UMDNJ.  He received his BS in Biochemistry from University of Maryland College Park.  As a medial student, he received a grant from the American Psychiatric Association to study and improve mental health literacy.  He worked with Dr. Cheryl Ann Kennedy at New Jersey Medical School on developing tools to enhance mental health literacy, and also assessing mental health literacy in an adult inner city population in Newark, NJ.  Dr. Reusche is interested in studying mental health literacy in the Charleston community.  Interests involve analyzing how different factors such as age, gender, ethnicity, and education affect mental health literacy.  Goals include assessing literacy in the community, and creating ways to combat stigma, and enhance mental health.  Dr. Reusche is being supervised and mentored by Dr. Jeffrey Borckardt in the DART program at MUSC.

Xingchun Tang, M.D., Ph.D. – Third Year Resident (2009-2011)
tangxc@musc.edu

Dr. Tang is a 3rd year psychiatry resident in the General Psychiatry Residency Training Program at the Medical University of South Carolina. She received a Bachelor Degree in Medicine from XuZhou Medical College and a Ph. D. in Pharmacology from Nanjing Medical University in China.  Her current research interests include the safety of suboxone maintenance treatment among chronic hepatitis C infected patient population; the confounding factors affected the liver function of the patients on suboxone and the clinical outcomes of suboxone treatment. Her future career goals include becoming board certified in general and addiction psychiatry and incorporating a career in research with clinical practice.   Dr. Tang is co-mentored in the DART program by Dr. Tara M. Wright and Dr. Robert J. Malcolm.

James Fox, M.D. - Third Year Resident (2009-2011)
foxj@musc.edu

Dr. Fox is a 3rd year resident in the general psychiatry program at the Medical University of South Carolina where he also received his medical degree.  He graduated with Distinction from Harvey Mudd College with a B.S. in physics and then spent four years in the Air Force at Hanscom AFB, MA working in the field of hyperspectral imagery.  His research interest is in exploring the fundamental neuroanatomy underlying affective illnesses and working to create specific and anatomically targeted treatments for these illnesses.  Under the guidance of Dr. Nahas of the Mood Disorders Program and Brain Stimulation Laboratory at MUSC, Dr. Fox is involved in several projects with the common theme of trying to establish a rational approach to somatic therapy for mood disorders.  In doing this he is learning to use several different techniques including diffusion tensor imaging  (DTI), functional MRI and transcranial magnetic stimulation. Dr. Fox is mentored in the DART program by Dr. Ziad Nahas.

Resident Research Graduates - Congratulations!