Marcia Huston McCall, PhD, MBA, LCMHC-A is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine (primary) and Physiology and Pharmacology (secondary).  She researches clinical and economic outcomes of mental health interventions in medical settings.  She collaborates with the Tobacco Control Center of Excellence on tobacco cessation programs and research.  Dr. McCall provides individual and group psychotherapy to medical, graduate, physician assistant, nurse anesthesia, and master’s level student clients of Counseling and Well-Being Services, a program of the School of Medicine.  She also provides psychotherapy to adult patients of the Psychiatry practice.

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Dr. McCall obtained her doctoral degree in Counseling and Counselor Education at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she researched Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) for hospitalized patients with substance misuse and disordered use.  The SBIRT interventions were conducted by counselors and counseling trainees from the School of Medicine’s Addiction Research and Clinical Health program.  She also holds Master of Arts in Counseling and Master of Business Administration degrees, both from Wake Forest University.

 

 Previously, Dr. McCall served the School in business administrative positions and directed the NIH-funded General Clinical Research Center.  While in Boston, she was the Assistant Controller of the Massachusetts General Hospital and practiced as a Certified Public Accountant with Deloitte.

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Dr. McCall has practiced yoga for 25 years and became a Registered Yoga Teacher in 2014.  She is married to School of Medicine faculty member Charles E. McCall, MD.  Together they have three adult children located in New York and North Carolina, and three dogs at home in Winston-Salem.