Theresa M. Miskimen Rivera is a Puerto Rican psychiatrist who is the chair and medical director of the psychiatric department at the Hunterdon Medical Center. She is the president-elect of the American Psychiatric Association.
Miskimen Rivera earned a B.S. in biological sciences from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez in 1986. [1] She received a M.D. from the University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus in 1990. [1] In 1994, she completed a psychiatric residency at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. [1] She conducted a health services research institute fellowship through the Association of American Medical Colleges in 1998. [1]
Miskimen Rivera is the medical director and chair of the psychiatry department at the Hunterdon Medical Center. [2] She is a clinical professor of psychiatry at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. [3] In 2024, she was selected as the president-elect of the American Psychiatric Association. [2] [4]
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