12/13/2024
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HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Marshall Health Network and the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine are pleased to announce the addition of four new board-certified adult psychiatrists providing comprehensive psychiatric consults for medically ill patients at Cabell Huntington Hospital and St. Mary’s Medical Center.
Psychiatrists Jill S. Bange, M.D., Heidi A. Johnson, D.O., and Dakota T. May, M.D.,M.S., provide immediate and thorough psychiatric evaluations for hospitalized and ER patients, ensuring timely and appropriate care and more effective treatment plans. They also collaborate closely with medical staff to address both physical and mental health needs comprehensively.
Bange specializes in psychotherapy, quality improvement research and procedural psychiatric treatment and care at St. Mary’s Medical Center. She earned her medical degree from the University of Cincinnati in Cincinnati, Ohio, before completing her psychiatry residency at the Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine.
Johnson provides inpatient psychiatry care at St. Mary’s Medical Center. Additionally, she provides general psychiatry care at Cabell Huntington Hospital and the Hershel “Woody” Williams VA Medical Center. She has interests in rural psychiatry and telemedicine. Johnson earned her medical degree from Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. She completed her psychiatry residency at the Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine.
May graduated with a Doctor of Medicine from the Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine, followed by a psychiatry residency at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. At Duke, May completed an adjunctive fellowship in Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) and Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT). May is a general adult psychiatrist with special interests in consultation-liaison psychiatry, interventional psychiatry and addiction psychiatry. May brings a track record of improving behavioral management of patients in acute settings through the implementation of Behavioral Emergency Response Teams. May’s research focuses on neuromodulation techniques to improve mental wellness and electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) for treating catatonia in autoimmune encephalitis.
Psychiatrist J. Luke Newman, M.D., is deeply committed to veterans' mental health and specializes in treating individuals with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other trauma-related conditions. He also serves as medical director of the Mind Wellness Center, a partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient program at Marshall Psychiatry. Newman is involved in outpatient and telemedicine care through the Hershel “Woody” Williams VA Medical Center and Southern Highlands Community Mental Health Center in southern West Virginia. He earned his medical degree from the University of Tennessee College of Medicine in Memphis and completed his psychiatry residency at Marshall University.
Bange, Johnson, May and Newman have all been appointed assistant professors in the department of psychiatry and behavioral health at the Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine. To learn more about psychiatry services available at Marshall Psychiatry, visit marshallhealth.org/psychiatry or call 304.691.1500.
Michele McKnight
Marshall Health & School of Medicine
Assistant Director of External Affairs
304-691-1713
mcknigh4@marshall.edu
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