Meet our Doctors

Claire Pouncey, MD

Specialties:
General adult psychiatrist
Psychiatric ethics

Education and experience:
Medical School: University of Pennsylvania
Residency: Cornell University and University of Pennsylvania

Claire Pouncey, MD, PhD, is a psychiatrist and a philosopher of science. She received her BA in Biomedical Ethics from Brown University and her MD and PhD in philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Pouncey completed her residency in general adult psychiatry at Cornell University and the University of Pennsylvania, and she was board certified in 2006. Dr. Pouncey currently works on the psychiatry faculty of Belmont Behavioral Health in Philadelphia, where she is a general adult psychiatrist. Dr. Pouncey is the Associate Director for the Psychiatry residency training program. She is working toward establishing and chairing the Belmont Behavioral Health ethics committee. Dr. Pouncey’s doctoral dissertation addressed the concept of nosological validity with respect to psychiatry’s system of classification, and she continues to be involved in philosophy of psychiatry, in addition to psychiatric ethics. She currently is an elected member of the Classification and Diagnosis section of the World Psychiatric Association, and is an executive committee member of the Association for the Advancement of Philosophy in Psychiatry.