INDIANAPOLIS,
Indiana – Christopher J. Dull, MD, JD, has
joined Franciscan Physician Network and will serve as a psychiatric liaison to
clinicians who provide care to inpatients at Franciscan
St. Francis Health-Indianapolis.
He joins Beth A. Johnson, MD, and they
work with patients having a primary medical diagnosis and whose accompanying
psychiatric symptoms complicate their care. This liaison service was developed in
2015 based on data showing that many patients discharged each year have a
secondary psychiatric diagnosis.
Dr. Dull most previously served as medical director of the
geropsychiatry unit at Sumner Regional Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee
and Skyline Medical Center. He was the owner of Hopeways, an addiction
psychiatry practice in Franklin, Tennessee.
A Diplomate with the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, he
received an undergraduate degree in Spanish literature from the University of
Michigan and earned his medical degree from Vanderbilt University School of
Medicine and law degree from the Indiana University School of Law in
Indianapolis.
Dr. Dull completed an internship in internal medicine and residency
training in psychiatry at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.
Dr. Dull has been the recipient of many academic and professional
honors, including Psychiatrist of the Year (National Alliance of Mental
Illness-Nashville) and recipient of the Frist Humanitarian Award for Skyline Medical
Center.
Franciscan Physician Network is a division of the Mishawaka, Indiana-based
Franciscan Alliance. To learn more about network primary and specialty care
services in central Indiana, go to FranciscanDocs.org.
