Martha Sajatovic, MD

Dr Sajatovic is Professor of Psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio. She is a clinician and researcher with particular interest in health outcomes for individuals with serious mental illness. She also has a strong interest in assessment instruments in psychiatry, and frequently serves as a consultant to pharmaceutical companies for rating scales training, as well as publishing in this area.

Dr Sajatovic received her BS in biology at Ohio State University and completed medical school at the Medical College of Ohio at Toledo. She completed her residency training in psychiatry at University Hospitals of Cleveland where she was Chief Resident in Research. Following completion of her residency, Dr Sajatovic was a Clinical Director of Inpatient Schizophrenia Research at University Hospitals of Cleveland, and later, was the Associate Chief of Psychiatry and Chief of the Mood Disorders Program at the Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio. Dr Sajatovic has extensive experience with the management of serious mental illness through her work as a state hospital Chief Clinical Officer (Cleveland Campus Northcoast Behavioral Healthcare), in her own private practice, as an inpatient attending physician in geropsychiatry, and in consulting with agencies providing community services to the seriously mentally ill. In 2003, Dr Sajatovic received an Exemplary Psychiatric Award from the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI).

Dr Sajatovic has published a number of original papers on treatment of serious mental illness and treatment outcomes including work with special populations such as the elderly, women with psychosis, and individuals with developmental disorder. She has been a guest lecturer at numerous academic and community settings including speaking to consumer and family advocacy groups for individuals with psychiatric illness. Dr Sajatovic has a long-standing commitment to education including supervision of medical students and residents in psychiatry, lecturing at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, psychiatric resident supervision, and seminar teaching for residents in psychiatry.