OU Health in Oklahoma City has hired Rasim Somer Diler, MD, to serve as clinical service chief of psychiatry and behavioral health and the Paul and Ruth Jonas Chair of the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine. He will begin his new role in July.
Dr. Diler currently serves as a professor of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and as a physician leader at UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital, according to a Feb. 11 OU Health news release shared with Becker’s. At the hospital, he founded and serves as medical director of the country’s first inpatient pediatric bipolar disorder unit.
He has written more than 160 peer-reviewed publications and delivered 120 national and international presentations. He is recognized as an expert in pediatric bipolar disorder care models, differential diagnosis, early detection and prevention, monitoring and treatment. He also serves as principal investigator on two NIH-funded longitudinal studies, which focus on neural and behavioral markers for early detection and treatment of bipolar disorder and mixed depression in youth.
OU Health is building the 72-bed Oklahoma Children’s OU Health Behavioral Health Center, which is projected to open in late 2026, the release said.
