Marcela Almeida completed her psychiatry residency in 2009 at the University of Chicago, where she remained as faculty working with the underserved communities of Chicago’s South Side. She completed a fellowship in Medical Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she was also the director of Women’s Mental Health and Reproductive Psychiatry, which included a fellowship, an outpatient, and an inpatient program with national recognition.
She has extensive experience mentoring residents and medical students, both clinically and with respect to scholarship, and has published numerous peer-reviewed papers in collaboration with her trainees that have been presented at national and international meetings. She has been the recipient of several teaching awards and other forms of teaching recognition, including the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training (AADPRT) Mentorship Award while still a PGY-2. She first joined Cambridge Health Alliance in 2020 as director of the adult inpatient unit. Her interests include women’s mental health, burnout in academic medicine, immigration, and gender and racial disparities.