Kathleen C. Dougherty MD

Dr. Dougherty is the Chair of the Department of Psychiatry of the Lancaster General Health System/ Penn Medicine and the managing physician for their Behavioral Health Specialty group. She is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, the past president of the Pennsylvania Psychiatric Society, and has been voted a “Best Doctor in America” by her academic peers every year since 2005.

She is an associate professor of psychiatry at Penn State College of Medicine, where she received the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. She also is an adjunct associate professor at Drexel, and for the 10 years before moving to LGH was an adjunct associate Professor of Law at Dickinson Law School, where she taught “Law and Psychiatry”.

She is board certified in general adult psychiatry, in geriatric psychiatry, and also in forensic psychiatry, which is the area of overlap between psychiatry and the law. She gives lectures and workshops at various national and state conferences on a variety of topics related to Psychiatry.