About Meghan Schott

Meghan Schott, DO, FAPA attended Oberlin College and University of North Texas-Health Science Center for medical school. She completed residency training at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh and Northwestern University/Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago for her child psychiatry fellowship. She has previously worked at Denver Health and Children’s National and was actively involved in the community buprenorphine and emergency psychiatry programs. Now she works at Cleveland Clinic, where she is creating their emergency child psychiatry service line and retains her assistant professorship through George Washington University by continuing to teach medical students in the practice of medicine. 

She has become an advocate in the community serving committees on local and  national levels and serves as a co-chair on the DC Hospital Association (DCHA) Opioid and Substance Use Response Taskforce, a member of the DCHA  Behavioral Health Collaborative, a committee member of  American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) Early Career Psychiatry Committee and of AACAP Emergency Child Psychiatry committee, on the executive board for Medical Society of DC (MSDC), and a regional representative for the ACCAP Assembly. She also serves as a committee member of Academy of Consult Liaison Psychiatrists (ACLP) program subcommittee for Early Career Psychiatrists and General Sessions and the education subcommittee on medical student education.  She also serves the American Association for Emergency Psychiatry (AAEP) as the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion chair and is a committee member for the child emergency committee.

She is actively involved in medical education and has previously served as the psychiatry clerkship site director. She teaches several psychiatry lecture series to medical students, residents, fellows and attendings from a broad range of specialties. She recently completed her Master Educator certificate through the Association for Academic Psychiatry (AAP). In addition, she was recently awarded the American Psychiatric Association (APA) Nancy CA Roeske MD Certificate of Recognition for Excellence in Medical Student Education.  Her teaching aspirations are not limited to medical education. She also serves as an executive board member for George Washington Women in Leadership program, an Oberlin College Alumni Recruiting Network Coordinator, the Pink Boots Scholarship Committee, and mentors high school and college students in STEM.