Ellen House is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the AU/UGA Medical Partnership and a board-certified, practicing adult, child, and adolescent psychiatrist. Dr. House received her undergraduate and medical degrees from Yale University and then completed her adult and child psychiatry trainings at Massachusetts General Hospital and McLean Hospitals where she was an instructor and clinical fellow at Harvard Medical School. She now splits her time between teaching at the AU/UGA Medical Partnership and providing psychiatric care to students at UGA’s Counseling and Psychiatric Services. Dr. House joined UGA after serving as the Vanderbilt School of Medicine’s psychiatry Master Clinical Teacher and is also a member of American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry’s Transitional Age Youth and College Student Mental Health Committee.  

Dr. House is the recipient of multiple teaching and mentoring awards at the AU/UGA Medical Partnership and is passionate about educating the next generation of physicians to care for patients with mental health concerns. In addition to clinical care, mentoring, and teaching about mental health across the lifespan, she also focuses on increasing empathy and effective communication in the doctor-patient relationship, responding effectively to experiences of moral injury in medicine, and students’ intentional development of their physician identities. She is the founder and chair of the Resilience and Professional Identity Formation committee, which has a footprint in all four years at the AU/UGA Medical Partnership.