Charles Hebert, MD

Charles Hebert, MD, is a dually trained physician who is board certified in internal medicine and psychiatry at University of Colorado Hospital in Aurora, Colorado. Dr. Hebert completed his undergraduate and medical degrees at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. He later completed combined residency training in internal medicine and psychiatry at Rush University in 2010. Following this, he served as the Section Chief of Psychiatry and Medicine and Director of the Psychiatric Consultation Liaison Service at Rush University until 2022. He currently serves as Medical Director of Emergency Psychiatry Services at University of Colorado Hospital, Anschutz Medical Campus and also as an attending psychiatrist on the Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry service. Dr. Hebert sees a wide array of emotional and behavioral problems that emerge in patients with medical, surgical, oncologic, gynecological, and neurological illness and uses his combined training in both settings. His research interests include development of psychiatric educational platforms for nonpsychiatric clinicians as well as topics at the med/psych interface, including mood disorders in the medically ill, impact of psychiatric comorbidity on the course of medical illness, functional neurological syndromes, and others.

Dr. Hebert has also served as a consultant and subject matter expert on behavioral health disaster readiness for the Chicago Healthcare System Coalition for Preparedness and Response (CHSCPR), and his work in this arena has been presented at the World Association of Disaster and Emergency Medicine (WADEM) Biennial Congress in Brisbane, Australia. He has also been an invited speaker at annual meetings of the Academy of Consultation Liaison Psychiatry as well as other national and international organizational meetings, including the Society of General Internal Medicine, where he has discussed integration of behavioral health in medical settings. A graduate of the Public Voices Fellowship and OpEd Project, Dr. Hebert has also published several opinion pieces on mental health in several online forums and podcasts, including The Hill, KevinMD, Newsweek, and others. He is also an expert contributor to Psychology Today.