Nathaly Shoua Desmarais, Psy.D.

Nathaly Shoua Desmarais oversees student personal and academic counseling, helps coordinate health and wellbeing programs, and serves as a resource for students who need guidance and assistance during their medical journey.

She also serves as chair of the FIU Medicine Liaison Committee for the FIU Disability Resource Center. She is an active member of the Association of American Medical Colleges Group on Student Affairs.

Areas of Interest

Medical student mental health, physician wellbeing and suicidality, professional wellbeing for faculty and staff, and factors impacting academic success in medical students and residents.

Education

Psy.D., Clinical Psychology, Concentration in Health Psychology, Nova Southeastern University
M.S., Clinical Psychopharmacology, Nova Southeastern University
M.S., Mental Health Counseling, Nova Southeastern University
B.S., Psychology, Florida Atlantic University

Awards

APA Achievement Award for Early Career Professionals - 2014

Publications

• Bonnin, R., Gralnik, L. M., Rothe, E. M., Obeso, V., von Harscher, H. M., Desmarais, N. S., … Castellanos, D. (2021). ISSAC: An Innovative Training Method for Teaching Suicidality Early in the Medical School Curriculum. Academic Psychiatry, in Press.
• Rivera-Rodriguez, Melanis, and Nathaly Shoua-Desmarais. "Case report: the gold standard: the case for inclusion of a medical student-specific counseling center and wellness programming in early medical education." Journal of clinical psychology in medical settings (2020): 1-6.
• Shoua-Desmarais, N., von Harscher, H., Rivera, M., Felix, T., Havas, N., Rodriguez, P., ... & Zwingli, E. (2020). First Year Burnout and Coping in One US Medical School. Academic Psychiatry, 1-5.
• Harscher, H. V., Desmarais, N., Dollinger, R., Grossman, S., & Aldana, S. (2017). The impact of empathy on burnout in medical students: New findings. Psychology, Health & Medicine,23(3), 295-303. doi:10.1080/13548506.2017.1374545