Maryann Popiel
Maryann Popiel, MD
Chair, Department of Behavioral Healthcare Services
NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi
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Providing Psychiatric Care for the Bronx
Dr. Maryann Popiel has devoted her career to the psychiatric services of NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi and North Central Bronx. She arrived straight from her residency at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1990, and in the 35 years since then she has been a driving force in the growth of the hospitals’ joint psychiatry program, one of the busiest in the city.
Dr. Popiel oversees a program with a large inpatient service, a flourishing outpatient service and, most recently, a successful addiction program. She has practiced in virtually every clinical setting the program offers, rising steadily up the ranks of leadership. As Chair since 2014, she is in charge of a program that is an important safety net for the Bronx, giving her a significant role in healthcare delivery in the region. She has also participated in a variety of committee roles throughout the hospital system, in leadership positions in her field and in roles supporting Albert Einstein and other medical education programs.
Dr. Popiel is credited with integrating behavioral healthcare services into most of the other departments at Jacobi and North Central Bronx and designing best practices, such as a violence reduction protocol, that are used across the hospital system. But her most important accomplishment, she says, is the one closest to home: “Creating a team that is patient-centered, focuses on the specific needs of each patient in the most comprehensive way possible and is able to pivot in a crisis like 9/11 and COVID-19.”
She adds, “Their energy, advocacy, devotion and creativity are inspirational. We get to move the dial of public health in a positive direction.”