UNC Hospital Psychiatry Clinic

Erica Arrington, MD
Medical Director, UNC STEP Clinic and CTI; Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry.

Dr. Arrington, joined the Center March 1, 2015 as clinical associate professor and medical director for the Schizophrenia Treatment and Evaluation Program (STEP) at the Carr Mill Community Clinic. Additionally, she serves as medical director for the Critical Time Intervention program and provides clinical support to various other programs at the Center including Community Resource Court and Hospital Transition Team.

Arrington received her medical degree from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine in 1999. She completed a residency in general psychiatry in 2002 and a fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry in 2004 from UNC and is board certified in both.

Previously, she was associate medical director at Alliance Behavioral Healthcare MCO, and medical director at Easter Seals UCP of North Carolina and Virginia, Inc. She has also worked in academics at the University of Maryland, Baltimore campus, the state mental hospital system at John Umstead Hospital (currently known as Central Regional Hospital), and managed care with Value Options.

Ms. Siska is a licensed clinical social worker with the Center and is located at Carr Mill. Her clinical responsibilities include individual therapy and case management with adults with severe and persistent mental illness (SPMI) and co-occurring substance use disorders. She is also the therapist for the Community Resource Court (CRC) of Orange and Chatham counties, which provides an alternative to incarceration for those with mental illness and/or substance abuse who have become involved in the court system. Her clinical interests include the treatment of SPMI, prevention of substance use and the intersection of social work and the criminal justice system. Treatment modalities are based on the needs of the individual and often combine evidence-based models such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Motivational Enhancement and Solution-Focused Therapy.

Ms. Smedley serves as clinical director of the STEP clinic at the Carr Mill clinic. She is a board certified clinical nurse specialist in adult psychiatry and mental health. Her extensive management and clinical experience includes being nursing supervisor of a child/adolescent inpatient psychiatric unit, charge nurse at the Diagnostic Evaluation Center at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic (WPIC), and a nurse therapist in the early psychosis program at WPIC. At the UNC Department of Psychiatry, she managed and assisted in the development of the Center of Excellence in the Research and Treatment of Bipolar Disorder, as well as served as a crisis clinician, therapist, and coordinator for several research studies.She received a bachelor’s degree in nursing from the University of Delaware and her master’s in nursing from the University of Pittsburgh.

Kelty-Brooke Bailey, MS, CRC, LPCA

Fred Jarskog, MD
Professor, Department of Psychiatry
Psychiatrist, and Research Director, North Carolina Psychiatric Research Research Center.