Community Memorial Selects New Medical Director

Dr. Travis Fisher has been named the new medical director for the Community Memorial Hospital Mental Health Center.

Fisher is a board-certified psychiatrist with sub-specialty training in psychosomatic medicine, which focuses on providing psychiatric care in non-psychiatric settings and to medically complex patients. After completing his medical school training in 2006, he stayed at the Medical College of Wisconsin to finish a psychiatric residency in 2010. Dr. Fisher then pursued a fellowship in psychosomatic medicine at the University of California-Davis before returning to Milwaukee in 2011.

An assistant professor of psychiatry at the Medical College of Wisconsin, his academic interests include consult-liaison and inpatient psychiatry, mental health care in the primary care setting, and education of medical and psychiatric trainees.

“Dr. Fisher believes that high-quality, comprehensive medical care can only be provided by developing strong collaborative relationships between providers of all levels and areas of expertise,” said David Drewek, director of the Mental Health Center. “Moving forward, he will work to develop those types of relationships here at Community Memorial.”

Dr. Harold Harsch, professor of psychiatry at the Medical College of Wisconsin, served as medical director for the past six years. “As medical director, Dr. Harsch helped the Mental Health Center grow dramatically,” said Drewek. “We were fortunate to have had his expertise over the years. He has worked to integrate psychiatric services into the medical and surgical care areas here at CMH, and Dr. Fisher will continue those efforts.”

Dr. Harsch will continue to work at CMH as a member of the Medical College of Wisconsin’s Psychiatric Hospitalist Service.