Biography
Dr. Vita McCabe graduated from University of Chicago Medical School in 1997 and trained in cardiothoracic surgery at the University of Minnesota. She has since lived in Ann Arbor since 2003. Through her own health problems; she retired her surgical career in 2015. In transitioning her career, she a completed a master’s degree in Health Management and Policy from the University of Michigan.
Dr. McCabe has interest and expertise in impairment due to her family history of alcoholism and addiction and through her own experience with physical impairment. She served as the Chair for LARA's Health Provider Assistance Committee, which oversees policy, statistics and step 2 review for the Michigan Health Professionals Recovery Program for all the health professional boards. Dr. McCabe served as the first chief wellness officer for Trinity-Michigan.
After pursing these roles, she became board certified in Addiction Medicine in October 2020. She felt strongly that a psychiatry residency was paramount to be of most service to getting healthcare healthy from the inside out.
Areas of Interest
- Epidemiologic trends of substance use disorders
- Healthcare provider impairment
Credentials
- MEDICAL SCHOOL
- M.D., University of Chicago Medical School, 1997
- ADVANCED DEGREE
- MHSA, University of Michigan, 2017
