Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Faculty
Program Director
Cody Roi, DO
Dr. Roi is a native of Utah, who has come to love and claim New Orleans as his home. He completed his general psychiatry residency at LSU in New Orleans where he went on to complete his Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship. In addition to his role as the program director, he is also the course director for the psychotherapy seminar and pediatric developmental theory course. Dr Roi is the past president of the Mid-Gulf Council for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and a recent recipient of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry’s Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Mentorship Program.
His interests include teaching and training in medicine, applying models of social determinants of health to the practice of psychiatry, and working with children’s drawings in assessment and case formulation.
Megan Campbell, DO
Dr. Megan Campbell is a board-certified Child, Adolescent & Adult Psychiatrist, and native New Orleanian. After earning a BS in Biopsychology from Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, she then completed medical school at Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. In 2013, Megan returned home to New Orleans for specialty training, completing residency in General Adult Psychiatry at LSU Health Sciences Center, followed by subspecialty training, completing a fellowship in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry and also in the Harris Infant Mental Health program.
Dr Campbell has expertise and interest in providing psychiatric services to children and adolescents, mental health crisis management, and mental health systems of care within both healthcare systems and the community as a whole. Dr Campbell has extensive experience with acute inpatient psychiatric treatment, psychiatric emergencies, outpatient psychiatry, and addiction management. Dr. Campbell also has an interest in early childhood trauma and the care of families and caregivers with young children in order to not only treat psychiatric disorders but promote optimal mental health.
Dr Campbell is currently practicing at Manning Family Children’s Hospital in New Orleans, serving as the Medical Director of the Behavioral Health Service Line, focusing on the range of services at Children's Hospital to care for children across Louisiana. As an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at LSU HSC, other focuses include teaching and supervision of LSU medical students, psychiatric residents and child psychiatry fellows.
Ashifur Rahman, MD
Ashifur Rahman is from Metairie, Louisiana where he attended high school. He went on to Loyola University New Orleans for college and Tulane University for his masters. He continued in the LSU New Orleans health system where he attended medical school at LSU New Orleans and went on to complete his residency in the Ochsner/LSU Psychiatry residency. He completed fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry at LSU New Orleans. He currently is a staff physician at Children's Hospital New Orleans on the inpatient child and adolescent behavioral health unit.
In his free time, he enjoys tennis, eating at restaurants, and traveling. During Mardi Gras, he rides in the Krewe of Tucks.
Chuck Coleman, MD
Chuck is the Max Sugar Professor of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychiatry and the Chief of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychiatry at the LSU Health Science Center. His medical and psychiatric training was at the Medical University of South Carolina, the Medical College of Georgia, and Vanderbilt University. He also earned a master’s degree in theological studies from Spring Hill College.
He is a distinguished fellow with both the American Psychiatry Association and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
He completed the AMA and Satcher Healthcare Leadership Institute Medical Justice in Advocacy Fellowship and recently was awarded a Psychodynamic Initiative Mentorship Award from the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
His primary academic interests are social and family psychiatry, medical ethics, health inequity, and social justice; while his social activities include involvement in several Mardi Gras organizations.
Megan Maher, MD
Megan is from Gulfport, Mississippi. She graduated from LSU New Orleans Medical School, completed her adult psychiatry training at the Medical University of South Carolina. She returned to LSU for her child psychiatry fellowship and remains on staff. She enjoys working in the community setting with underserved families. She has particular interest in working with English as second language learners and working with school systems to meet their academic needs.
In her free time, she relishes antiques, tennis, and gardening.
Martin Drell, MD
Dr. Drell is the former Training Director and Head of CAP at LSU Medical School in New Orleans. He has experience in the preservation of therapy, especially psychodynamic therapy in CAP training, infant psychiatry, C/L, anxiety disorders, training, administration, use of humor in therapy, writing about clinical work, systems of care, and mentoring.
Jennifer Creedon MD
