Thaddeus Ulzen, MD, DCP, FRCP(C), FCGP, DFAPA
Professor, Department Chair
Dr. Thaddeus Ulzen is professor and chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine at the College of Community Health Sciences at The University of Alabama.
He began his academic career in 1985 as a lecturer at the University of Toronto. In 1997, he joined the Department of Psychiatric Medicine at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University in Greenville, N.C., as associate professor and vice chair of the department and director of the University Psychiatry Center. He served as interim chair of the department from 2001-2004.
Ulzen joined the College of Community Health Sciences as chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine in 2005. He served as the College’s associate dean for Academic Affairs from 2008-2021 and was interim dean of the College from 2009-2011. The College also functions as a regional campus of the UAB Heersink School of Medicine in Birmingham and provides the third and fourth years of medical education to a cohort of medical students.
Ulzen is a practicing psychiatrist with special interest in child and adolescent psychiatry and has more than 40 years of experience. In 1994, he was nominated for the Paul Steinhauer Prize in Child’s Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. In 2002, Ulzen was awarded the Nancy CA Roeske Certificate of Excellence in Medical Education by the American Psychiatric Association. In 2007 he was the recipient of the Yale/Johnson and Johnson Physicians Scholar in International Health Award. Other awards include the Postgraduate Training Award of the Ghana Physicians and Surgeons Foundation of North America (GPSF- 2013) and the Postgraduate Training award of the Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons (GCPS- 2014). He was also President of the Ghana Physicians and Surgeons Foundation of North America from 2007-2008.
He graduated with distinction from the University of Ghana Medical School in Ghana, West Africa. He completed residency training at the University of Toronto. He is board certified in psychiatry by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. He is an annual visiting professor at the University of Cape Coast, School of Medical Sciences, and is an adjunct professor at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine in Ontario Canada.
Ulzen has a broad range of academic interests within child psychiatry, primary care psychiatry, rural psychiatry, telepsychiatry and global/international mental health.
He is also an author, essayist and chair of the Board of Elmina-Java Museum, the oldest privately held museum in Ghana.
Selected bibliography
2017 Undiagnosed ADHD in unionized Drivers in Ghana: Public Health and Policy Implications. Accident Analysis and Prevention, 22 July 2017; Thaddeus P. Ulzen, John C. Higginbotham, Gordon Donnir, Laurence Jerome, Al Segal.
2016 Evaluation of Experiences of Family Medicine Residents in an Intensive Outpatient Psychiatry Clinic: Best Practices in Mental Health; Williamson LB, Major C, Ulzen T, Rubin NJ, Fotopoulos, E. Vol 12, No.1 March 2016.
2012 The evolution of a community-based Telepsychiatry Program in Rural Alabama: Community Mental Health Journal, Feb 2012, Ulzen, T., Williamson L., Payne-Foster, P., Parris-Barnes K.
1999 Curriculum Renewal in Child Psychiatry, Can J Psychiatry, 44 pp 874-880: Mark Hanson, MD, Med, FRCPC, Richard Tiberius Ph.D., Alice Charach, M.D., FRCPC, Thaddeus Ulzen, MD, FRCPC, et al.
1998 The Nature and Characteristics of Psychiatric Morbidity in Incarcerated adolescents. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry Vol.43: No. 1, pp. 57-63. Ulzen, T., Hamilton H.
1997 The Delusional Parent: Implications for children, families and the therapeutic system – Canadian Journal of Psychiatry; Vol. 42; No. 6, pp 617-622. Ulzen T., Carpentier, R.