Napatia T. Gettings

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

ABOUT NAPATIA T. GETTINGS

Napatia Tronshaw-Gettings, MD FAACAP has a wide array of clinical and leadership experience that has solidified her expertise in the field of Psychiatry. She readily proclaims that we are all a product of our collective experiences, biological predispositions, and nurturing process. Dr. Tronshaw-Gettings practice within the field of psychiatry includes advocacy, legislative policy, mental health awareness, and patient education. She has written for both the Southtown Star Newspaper and IPS Mind Matters. Her clinical work has also been noted in a special report on Chicago gun violence featured in Ebony Magazine in August of 2013. In May of 2015 she was elected as the Secretary of the Illinois Psychiatric Society.Dr. Gettings began her medical career at Misericordia Home on the south side of Chicago as a rehabilitation aide at 17. There she first treated adults and children with profound neurological disabilities. After completing freshman year at Dartmouth College she transferred to The University of Chicago as a Biological Sciences major. In 2003, Dr. Gettings obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Biological Sciences and continued on to the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine graduating in 2007 with her Doctorate of Medicine. Dr. Gettings then completed residency training in Adult Psychiatry at The University of Illinois at Chicago in 2010. Afterwards she pursued further specialty training at The University of Illinois Institute of Juvenile Research where she completed a fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in 2012. As chief fellow at the institute, Dr. Gettings provided psychiatric care to detained youth at the Cook County Juvenile Detention Center and many children in foster care.Dr. Gettings’ mission as a medical doctor specializing in Psychiatry is to bring brain health awareness to the mainstream and dismantle the misconceptions associated with it. Dr. Gettings is an active member of The American Psychiatric Association and the American Medical Association. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and holds double board certifications in both Adult Psychiatry and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.