Colin Exall Stewart, MD| Child And Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychiatry | MedStar Health
About me
Colin Stewart, MD, is the training director for the Child and Adolescent Residency Training Program as well as the clerkship director for the Georgetown University School of Medicine’s psychiatry clerkship. He also provides clinical care at both Georgetown and Mary's Center, a non-profit community health center that serves a primarily Central American immigrant population. At Georgetown, he also sees couples, individuals and families for psychotherapy. Dr. Stewart both teaches and supervises medical students, psychiatry residents, and child and adolescent psychiatry fellows at both Georgetown and Mary's Center. He is also very involved with promoting diversity and inclusion in medical education and currently serves on the AADPRT Diversity and Inclusion Committee, the MedStar GME Working Group for Racial Justice, and the Department of Psychiatry's Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee and previously served on the Georgetown School of Medicine's Faculty Diversity and Inclusion Committee, the AAMC’s Group for Diversity and Inclusion and AACAP’s Diversity and Culture Committee. His academic scholarship has focused on implementing holistic review in GME, promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion in the recruitment process, and competency-based assessment in medical education.
Clinical areas of focus
- Adult Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
- Amphetamine Addiction
- Anxiety
- Bipolar Disorder Treatment
- Depression
- Exposure And Response Prevention
- Kinesiology Analysis
- Learning Disabilities
- Mood Disorder Treatment
- Mood Disorders
- Newborn Developmental Delays
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Treatment
- Pain Medication Management
- Pervasive Developmental Disorder
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Psychiatric Evaluation
- Social Anxiety Disorder
Conditions and procedures
Conditions I treat
- Adult Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
- Amphetamine Addiction
- Anxiety
- Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Behavioral Disorders
- Bipolar Disorder
- Cocaine Related Disorders
- Depression
- Developmental Disabilities
- Eating Disorders
- Gallbladder Disease
- Learning Disabilities
- Mental Health Conditions
- Mood Disorders
- Newborn Developmental Delays
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
- Panic Attacks
- Personal History Of Diseases And Conditions
- Pervasive Developmental Disorder
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Psychotic Disorder
- Reaction To Stress And Adjustment Disorders In Children
- Schizoid Personality Disorder
- Schizophrenia
- Separation Anxiety
- Sleep Disorders
- Social Anxiety Disorder
- Substance Abuse
- Suicidal Thought
- Tourette Syndrome
- Trauma
- Trauma And Stress Disorders
Procedures I perform
- Adhd Evaluation
- Alcohol Abuse Counseling
- Anxiety Management
- Assessment And Diagnosis
- Behavioral Activation
- Behavioral Modification
- Binge Eating Disorder Treatment
- Bipolar Disorder Treatment
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- Cognitive Flexibility Training
- Existential Group Therapy
- Exposure And Response Prevention
- Eye Movement Desensitization And Reprocessing
- Group Psychotherapy
- Group Therapy
- Health Promotion Counseling
- I-131 Therapy
- Infusion Therapy
- Interprofessional Collaboration
- Kinesiology Analysis
- Learning Disability Evaluation
- Learning Disability Support
- Live-In Care
- Mood Disorder Treatment
- Motivational Interviewing
- Neuropsychological Testing
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Treatment
- Pain Medication Management
- Parent Management Training
- Peer Support Groups
- Play Therapy
- Please Let Me Know If You'd Like Me To Expand On This List.
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Treatment
- Psychiatric Diagnostic Evaluation With Medical Services
- Psychiatric Evaluation
- Psychological Evaluation
- Psychotherapy
- Reality Therapy
- Relapse Prevention
- School Consultation
- Self-Esteem Enhancement
- Social Skills Training
- Sti Treatment
- Stress Reduction
- Substance Dependence Treatment
- Suicide Intervention
- Wellness And Prevention
Insurance
MedStar Health accepts most major health insurance plans. If you are uncertain as to whether your individual health insurance plan is accepted at MedStar Health, please call your insurance company.
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List of insurance plans we accept
- Aetna Elect Choice/ Open Access (POS)
- Johns Hopkins Advantage MD HMO
- Mamsi Life & Health (Indem./PPO) Cardiac Global
- IH-POS Plus
- Fee-for-Service (FFS) District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia Medicaid
- CareFirst FEP Blue Focus
- Uniformed Services Family Health Plan
- Anthem BCBS Medi Blue SNP
- United Healthcare Select HMO-EPO/NPP Cardiac Global
- Choice POS II
- CareFirst Blue Choice Opt Out Plus Open Access (POS)
- Kaiser Permanente Signature - Added Choice
- Tricare Reserve Select
- Amerigroup DC Alliance
- Optimum Choice & Optimum Choice Preferred (POS) Cardiac Global
- HumanaChoice PPO
- Aetna HMO
- Anthem BCBS of VA HealthKeepers (HMO)
- CareFirst BlueChoice HMO
- Choice POS
- CareFirst MedStar PPO
- Kaiser Permanente Flexible Choice 3-tier POS
- Aetna Classic 5000PD
- Anthem Federal Employee Program Standard
- CareFirst MedStar Select PPO
- United HealthCare Community Plan - Maryland Health Choice Program
- Humana Medicare Advantage - HMO Open Access
- United Student Resources
- CareFirst Blue Preferred PPO
- POS OA
- MedStar Family Choice - Maryland Health Choice
- IH-HMO
- CareFirst Blue Choice Opt Out Open Access
- Cigna Preferred Medicare (HMO)
- IH-Open Network Only Plus
- Health Services for Children with Special Needs
- Choice Care Network/HUMANA (PPO)
- Select HMO/HealthFund/Health Network
- Anthem BCBS Medi Blue Plus
- Anthem BCBS of VA HealthKeepers Plus
- Lasso Healthcare - Medicare Medical Savings Account
- Mamsi Life & Health (Indem./PPO)
- Cigna True Choice Plus Medicare (PPO)
- Aetna Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO Plans
- First Health PPO
- Priority Partners - Maryland Health Choice
- NYC Medicare Advantage Plus
- Optima Family Care MCO - VA Medicaid MCO
- TriWest Healthcare Alliance
- Aetna HMO-Open Access/Select OA/HealthFund/Health Network Option OA
- Optimum Choice Preferred (POS)
- AmeriHealth Caritas DC Healthy Families
- Magellan Complete Care of VA - VA Medicaid MCO
- IH-Open POS Plus
- WellPoint Maryland - Maryland Health Choice
- CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield Advantage Core/Enhanced
- CIGNA PPO Plus
- Alterwood Advanatge HMO & DSNP Plans
- Aetna Managed Choice (POS)
- Great-West Healthcare POS/CIGNA
- Anthem BCBS of VA HealthKeepers (POS & POS OA)
- CareFirst Maryland Indemnity or PPO
- OCI Direct (HMO)
- IH-PPO
- Cigna True Choice Medicare (PPO)
- Kaiser Permanente Select
- AmeriHealth Caritas DC Healthcare Alliance
- HumanaChoice Honor's plan PPO
- Anthem BCBS of VA Key Care POS/PPO/Indemnity
- CareFirst Dual Prime HMO-SNP
- CIGNA HMO Open Access
- M.D. IPA Preferred (POS)
- United Healthcare Choice Plus
- Kaiser Permanente HMO Plus and DHMO Plus Member
- HighMark
- UnitedHealthcare Medicare Adv. Special Needs Plans
- United Healthcare Choice Plus Cardiac Global
- United Medicare Private Fee-for-Service (PFFS) plans
- Blue Choice Advantage
- UnitedHealthcare Individual Exchange Plans
- United Healthcare Options (PPO)
- Navigate
- Aetna Managed Choice Open Access (POS)
- Kaiser Permanente Signature
- MD IPA (HMO) & MD IPA Preferred Cardiac Global
- Kaiser Permanente Medicare Advantage Signature and Select
- IH-Open HMO
- Kaiser Permanente Medicare Plus
- Veterans Affairs Community Care Network
- TRICARE for Life East
- United Healthcare Select HMO - EPO/NPP
- United Healthcare Choice Cardiac Global
- OA Plus
- Aetna VA Exchange
- Aetna Basic
- Aetna Worker's Compensation Network
- CareFirst Administrators
- CareFirst (NCA) Indemnity
- CareFirst Federal Employee Program (Std. & Basic PPO)
- UnitedHealthcare Medicare Advantage DSNP District of Columbia
- First Health PPO
- Aetna Premier 200PD
- Aetna Classic 5000
- CareFirst Group Medicare Advantage prescription drug benefit (PPO)
- Geisinger Medicare Advantage
- United Healthcare Community Plan - VA Medicaid MCO
- Aetna Elect Choice/ EPO (Aetna Health Fund)
- Employee Health Plan
- Choice POS II Open Access
- Options PPO Cardiac Global
- Aetna Better Health of VA
- IH-EPO Plus
- Beech Street PPO
- Kaiser Maryland Medicaid MCO
- Sentara Health
- Humana Medicare Advantage - PPO
- IH-Open POS II
- Aetna Open Choice (PPO)
- CIGNA HMO & Network (HMO)
- Police and Fire Clinic
- UnitedHealthcare Individual Exchange Plans
- Coventry Health Care National Network PPO
- MedStar Family Choice DC Healthcare Alliance
- HUMANA/Choice Care Medicare Plans (Choice, Gold Choice)
- HealthyBlue PPO
- M.D. IPA (HMO)
- Aetna Advantage 6350PD
- Kaiser Permanente Select - Added Choice
- Aetna Signature Administrator PPO/TPA
- Anthem BCBS Medi Blue Dual Adv
- BlueChoice Open Access
- Cigna Achieve Medicare (HMO C-SNP)
- DC/MD SHOP QHP Small Business Plans
- Erickson Advantage Plans
- United Healthcare Navigate Cardiac Global
- Advantra Platinum (PPO)
- Aetna Quality Point of Service (POS)
- Maryland Physicians Care MCO
- TRICARE East Prime
- Aetna Advantage 5750
- Mamsi Life & Health (Indem./PPO)
- IH-Indemnity
- IH-POS
- Cigna TotalCare (HMO D-SNP)
- United Healthcare Select Plus (POS)
- Kaiser Permanente Select Cardiac Global
- Medicare Direct
- CareFirst Group Medicare Advantage
- MultiPlan, Inc
- UHC Group Medicare Advantage Plans (HMO, POS, PPO)
- UnitedHealthcare and AARP Medicare Complete Plans
- Aetna Traditional Choice (PPO)
- Network OA
- Medicare FFS
- CareFirst Maryland Point of Service Plan
- MedStar Family Choice DC Healthy Families
- Aetna Better Health of MD
- Aetna Medicare Advantage PFFS Plan
- Jai Medical Systems - Maryland Health Choice
- TRICARE East Select
- Johns Hopkins Advantage MD PLUS PPO
- Fee-for-Service (FFS) District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia Medicaid
- Healthy Blue (HMO, POS)
- CIGNA PPO
- Kaiser Permanente Flexible Choice POS Cardiac Global
- Amerigroup DC Healthy Families
- BCBS of Michigan (BCN Advantage,Security Blue, Freedom, Medicare PLUS Blue Group PPO)
- MedStar Family Choice - Maryland Health Choice
- CareFirst Blue Card Program
- Optimum Choice
- Aetna Student Health Insurance
- Coventry Health Care of Virginia
- IH-Open HMO Option
- AMERIVANTAGE/Amerigroup Community Care
- Aetna Advantage 6350
- CareFirst EPO
- CIGNA Indemnity
- CareFirst Community Health Plan of MD
- Choice Fund PPO
- United Healthcare Choice
- Humana Gold Plus HMO
- IH-Open EPO Plus
- BCBS Out-of-State Medicare Plans (Blue Advantage)
- Cigna Alliance Medicare (HMO)
- CareFirst NASCO
- UHC Passport
- Kaiser Permaenete Signature - Added Choice Cardiac Global
- CIGNA EPO
- Johns Hopkins Advantage MD PPO
- Anthem Federal Employee Program Basic
- CIGNA SureFit (HMO)
- IH-Network Only Plus
- CIGNA POS/Network POS
- MedStar Family Choice DC Healthcare Alliance
- Private Health Care Systems (PPO)
- Aetna Classic 3500
- Coventry of Delaware HMO/PPO
- Medicare Advantage - Advantra Value (PPO)
- CIGNA Connect EPO
- Private Fee-for-Service Plans (PFFS)
- Core Essential (HMO)
Education
Board Certification: American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurology
Fellowship: Emory University School of Medicine (2013)
Residency: University of California San Francisco School of Medicine (2011)
Medical School: University of Texas at San Antonio (2008)
Awards
- Faculty Teaching Award, Georgetown Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2019
- Louis F. Rittlemeyer, Jr., M.D. Teacher of the Year Award, Georgetown Psychiatry Residency, 2018
- Dr. Michael Adams Medical Student Mentoring Award, Georgetown University School of Medicine, 2016
- Faculty Teaching Award, Georgetown Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2014
- PGY-3 Medical Student Teaching Award, Adult Psychiatry Residency, UCSF, 2011
- PGY-1 Medical Student Teaching Award, Adult Psychiatry Residency, 2009
Hospital affiliations
News and publications
- Young JQ, Hasser C, Hung EH, Kusz M, O’Sullivan PS, Stewart CE, Weiss A, Williams N. Developing End-of-Training Entrustable Professional Activities for Psychiatry: Results and Methodological Lessons. Academic Medicine. 2017 Nov 21. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000002058. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 29166349
- Sadhu JM, Lee PC, Stewart CE, Carson N, Usher C, Maneta E, Kitts R, Sharma N, Adams A, Hazen EP, Thwin Myint M, Lee ES, Vasa RA, Randall TL, Leong S, Jacobson SL. Lessons from the Launch: Program Directors Reflect on Implementing the CAP Milestones. Academic Psychiatry. 2017 Dec 1. doi: 10.1007/s40596-017-0852-8. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 29196980
- Hung, E.K., Jibson, M., Sadhu, J., Stewart, C.E., Walker, A., Wichser, L., Young, J.Q. Wresting with Implementation: a Step-By-Step Guide to Implementing Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) in Psychiatry Residency Programs. Acad Psychiatry (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40596-020-01341-7
- Vijay A, Salmon MR, Stewart CE (2018). Chapter: Suicide and Non-Suicidal Self-Injury in Pediatric Psychiatry for Primary Care: A Clinician’s Guide. pp. 33–46. Editors: Vinson & Vinson. Publisher: Springer Books. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90350-7_4
- Schlechter AD, O'Brien KH, Stewart C. The Positive Assessment: A Model for Integrating Well-Being and Strengths-Based Approaches into the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Clinical Evaluation. Child Adolesc Psychiatr Clin N Am. 2019 Apr;28(2):157-169. doi: 10.1016/j.chc.2018.11.009. Review. PMID: 30832950