Jill Abram

Jill Abram, a distinguished board-certified psychiatrist from Indiana, has devoted 38 years to the field of psychiatry, specializing in child and adolescent care. Her career has been marked by a steadfast dedication to healing and restoring the well-being of communities, families, and individuals through comprehensive care and collaboration with other health professionals, upholding the highest standards of psychiatric medicine.

Throughout her extensive career, she has made significant contributions to numerous lives. She initially served on the Homeless Mobile Team at Midtown Mental Center in Indianapolis from 1988 to 1990. She then took on a role as the psychiatrist for the Child Team for Mental Health in Anderson, Indiana, where she worked until 1996. This period was followed by her entering private practice in Fishers, Indiana, while also serving as the psychiatrist at Pleasant Run Children's Home, a historical orphanage in Indianapolis.

She continued her practice in Anderson for nearly seven years, during which she also served as the adolescent psychiatrist at Northeast Juvenile Correctional Facility and Pendleton Juvenile Correctional Facility. Additionally, she provided her expertise as the psychiatric consulting physician at Fortville Christian Youth Home.

Her career also included a private practice in Indianapolis, roles at the Counseling Center Christian Theological Seminary and Family Counseling Center, and as a consulting adolescent psychiatrist at Richmond State Hospital. She collaborated with the medical staff at Community Hospitals of Indianapolis. Moreover, she served as a consultant at the Boys and Girls Home of Alaska. She was part of the medical team at North Star Hospital in Anchorage, assisting in the initiation of psychiatric telemedicine services through the Four County Counseling Center in Peru, Kokomo, and Logansport, Indiana.

Her elective professional engagements include consulting with the Department of Mental Health to develop integrated care systems with the Department of Education and the Department of Families and Children and consulting with the Marion County Juvenile Detention Center. She was also an active participant in the Conscience Development Research and Study Group and a Trauma and Dissociation study group.