Joyce Ellen King MD

Joyce E. King, MD, graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She completed her residency training in family medicine at MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center, serving as chief resident. She completed additional training in colposcopy and cervical pathology as well as pediatric behavioural medicine to prepare her for a faculty position in the Family Medicine Residency Program.

She is the chairman of the Patient Care Advisory Committee at MedStar Franklin Square. Dr King is responsible for all of the inpatient training for family medicine residents at MedStar Franklin Square and is a clinical instructor for the Physical Diagnosis course for second-year medical students from the University of Maryland.

Dr King has written many articles on psychiatric disorders in children and adults. She has taught board review courses for family medicine on the topics of attention deficit disorder in adolescents and adults, pharmacologic and clinical reviews of atypical antipsychotics, and the relevance of the primary care physician in the treatment of psychiatric disorders.