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Carole Warshaw, MD

Director
National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma, and Mental Health
Chicago, Illinois

Carole Warshaw, MD (she, her) is a nationally recognized expert on the intersection of domestic violence, trauma, substance use, and mental health. For over 40 years, she has led the development of innovative models for providing accessible, culturally responsive, trauma-, and DV-informed services; building cross-sector collaboration; and improving system capacities to address the health, mental health, substance use, and advocacy concerns of DV survivors and their families. Dr. Warshaw speaks and publishes extensively on these topics and has served as an advisor to numerous health, mental health, substance use, and DV advocacy organizations, as well as federal agencies.

Dr. Warshaw founded the National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma, and Mental Health in 2005 and its precursor, the Chicago-based Domestic Violence and Mental Health Policy Initiative in 1999. Previously, Dr. Warshaw spent over 30 years at John H. Stroger Jr. (formerly Cook County) Hospital as an internist, emergency room physician, and Director of Behavioral Science for the Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency. There, she co-founded the Hospital Crisis Intervention Project, which trains healthcare providers on domestic violence and provides on-site advocacy for survivors and their families.

Dr. Warshaw has maintained a part-time private practice in psychiatry since 1989 and is currently a faculty member in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Illinois. She is board certified in psychiatry and internal medicine.

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