Drexel University College of Medicine

Dr. Schindler is director of The Caring Together Program, a treatment program for substance abusing mothers and their children. She is board certified in psychiatry, with expertise in hospital consultation psychiatry and the treatment of substance abusing mothers and their children.

Accepting referrals for the Caring Together Program only. Contact Information: 215.967.2130.

Awards and Honors

• Named "Top Doctor" by Philadelphia magazine (2013)

In the News

• "Drexel Physicians Named "Top Docs" by Philadelphia Magazine"
  (May 2, 2013)

Podcast

• Addiction
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Selected Publications

"The Impact of the Changing Health Care Environment on the Health and Well-Being of Faculty at Four Medical Schools"
B.A. Schindler, D.H. Novack, D.G. Cohen, J. Yager, D. Wang, N.J. Shaheen, P. Guze, L. Wilkerson and D.A. Drossman
Academic Medicine, Vol. 81, No. 1 (January 2006)

"Respect from Our Medical Colleagues"
B.A. Schindler
American Journal of Psychiatry, 58 (7):1167-8, Letter to the Editor (July 2001)

"Designing and Implementing a Comprehensive, Integrated, Longitudinal Medical School Curriculum in Bio-psychosocial Medicine"
D.H. Novack, S.R. Waldstein, D.A. Drossman, B.A. Schindler and H. Ochitill
Medical Encounter, Volume 16, No.1 (Winter 2001)

"MCP-Hahnemann School of Medicine"
B.A. Schindler, B.D. Mann, C.D. Puglia, B.J. Landau and T.R. Kantner
Academic Medicine, Vol. 75, (9 Suppl):S310-2 (September 2000)

Dr. Barbara Schindler is board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and has added qualifications in geriatric psychiatry. She served as acting chair of the Department of Psychiatry from 1993 to 1995. She founded and serves as the medical director of the Caring Together Program, an outpatient treatment program for women with addictive and psychiatric disorders.

Dr. Schindler has over 150 publications, abstracts, and presentations in consultation-liaison psychiatry/psychosomatic medicine, substance abuse in women, and medical education. She collaborated on a multicenter study of the effects of financial stress on the physical and mental health of academic-health-center faculty.

Dr. Schindler has earned fellowship status in the American Psychiatric Association and the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine and is a past-president of the Philadelphia Psychiatric Society. She served on the Council of the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine and the Philadelphia Psychiatric Society.

Affiliated Hospitals: Hahnemann University Hospital; Friends Hospital

Awards and Honors

• The Commonwealth Board Award
• WMC/MCP Alumnae/i Association Service Award
• The Association of American Medical Colleges Women in Medicine Silver Achievement Award
• The Pennsylvania Psychiatric Society's Presidential Award
• The Lindback Teaching Award

Memberships

• Alpha Omega Alpha

In the News

"Am I Too Old for Med School?"
www.studentdoc.com (May 2012)

• Psychiatry

• Addictive Disorders in Women
• Psychiatric evaluation
• Psychosomatic medicine
• Women's mental health

• Internal Medicine - Medical College of Pennsylvania (1971)

• Child Psychiatry - Medical College of Pennsylvania (1975)
• Adult Psychiatry - Medical College of Pennsylvania (1973)