Dr. Benedicto Borja is currently the Program Director for the George Washington University Department of Psychiatry Residency Training Program. Prior to coming to GW, he served as Director of Education at the Sheppard Pratt Health System and the Associate Program Director at the University of Maryland/Sheppard Pratt Psychiatry Residency Training Program where he completed his residency as chief resident. His major areas of clinical expertise include emergency psychiatry and telepsychiatry and EMDR. He was instrumental in creating the first Psychiatric Emergency Services in Baltimore at the University of Maryland and was also instrumental in the development of the Crisis Walk In Clinic at Sheppard Pratt. He served as the founding Medical Director for both. Dr. Borja had served as a Senior Oral Board Examiner for the American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology (ABPN) from 2002 to 2015.