New medical
director welcomed
DAYVILLE — United Services, Inc., northeastern Connecticut’s non-profit Community Behavioral Health and Wellness Center, announced the appointment of Dr. Sarah deAsis as medical director.
deAsis most recently was chair of the Department of Psychiatry at Day Kimball Hospital, where she had been on staff since 2012.
deAsis completed her medical training in the Philippines, and practiced there before moving to the U.S. and completing her residencies in psychiatry at New Jersey Medical School and a Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship at Yale.  She is Board Certified in General Psychiatry and Geriatric Psychiatry, and has additional experience specializing in Post Traumatic Stress Disorder treatment.
deAsis will be seeing clients at the agency’s Mansfield Center and Dayville clinics and will oversee the agency’s medical operations, including psychiatric services and Medication Assisted Treatment programs.
Dr. Venugopal Thangada, who has been serving as United Services Medical Director since 2018, will move to an associate medical director role. Thangada will continue his oversight of United Services’ Child and Family Division and his role as a child psychiatrist, a position he has held at United Services since 1994. 

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