Theresa Miskimen

Theresa M. Miskimen Rivera is a Puerto Rican psychiatrist who is the chair and medical director of the psychiatric department at the Hunterdon Medical Center. She is the president-elect of the American Psychiatric Association.

Miskimen Rivera earned a B.S. in biological sciences from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez in 1986.^[1] She received a M.D. from the University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus in 1990.^[1] In 1994, she completed a psychiatric residency at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.^[1] She conducted a health services research institute fellowship through the Association of American Medical Colleges in 1998.^[1]

Miskimen Rivera is the medical director and chair of the psychiatry department at the Hunterdon Medical Center.^[2] She is a clinical professor of psychiatry at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.^[3] In 2024, she was selected as the president-elect of the American Psychiatric Association.^[2][4]