Career Chat: Dr. Emily Morse on Housing as Healing in Community Psychiatry

Career Chat: Dr. Emily Morse on Housing as Healing in Community Psychiatry

August 20, 2025 · 21 min

About this episode

Dr. Emily Morse discusses the role of housing in community psychiatry and her work in various clinical settings.

Guest: Emily Morse, DO, is a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Iowa where she was first drawn to community-based care during her residency training. Her current clinical work spans a variety of settings which include outreach clinics embedded within local permanent supportive housing programs in partnership with Shelter House in Iowa City—an organization that provides comprehensive support services to help individuals move beyond homelessness. She also works as part of interdisciplinary teams that reach patients across Iowa, including one focused on individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and another providing reproductive and perinatal mental health care. Along with her clinical work, she is active in medical education as a psychiatry clerkship co-director, and she enjoys working alongside residents and fellows while aiming to provide accessible, collaborative, and relationship-centered care. Host: Halimah Hamidu-Egiebor, MD, MS, MBA is a psychiatry and internal medicine resident physician at the University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics and a host of The Community Psychiatry Podcast. She is passionate about integrated and…

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Host: Halimah Hamidu-Egiebor

Guest: Emily Morse

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Organizations: University of Iowa, Shelter House, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NIH

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