Dr. Ahmed Aboraya, MD, Dr.PH

Dr. Ahmed Aboraya, MD, DrPH, currently holds the position of Chief of Psychiatry at

William R. Sharpe Jr. Hospital. He also serves as a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at West

Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine in Lewisburg, West Virginia (WV), and as adjunct

faculty in the School of Public Health at West Virginia University (WVU) in Morgantown,

WV. Dr. Aboraya obtained his medical degree (MD) from Cairo University and pursued

further education with a Master of Public Health (MPH) and a Doctor of Public Health

(DrPH) from Johns Hopkins University. After completing his doctoral studies at Johns

Hopkins in 1991, he finished his psychiatry residency at WVU in 1995. Since then, he has

remained on faculty with WVU while practicing as an attending psychiatrist at Sharpe

Hospital.

Dr. Aboraya specializes in treating chronic mental illnesses such as schizophrenia spectrum

disorders and mood disorders, accumulating over 30 years of experience in West Virginia.

His primary research focus centers on the clinical assessment of psychopathology. Notably,

he developed the Standard for Clinicians’ Interview in Psychiatry (SCIP) as an assessment

tool for adult psychiatric disorders. The SCIP, administered by clinicians and researchers,

underwent testing between 2000 and 2020 in an international multisite study spanning

three countries: the USA, Canada, and Egypt, with a total sample size of 1,064 subjects.

The SCIP has proven to be a reliable and valid assessment tool, with results from the SCIP

project published and presented at numerous national and international conferences.

The SCIP is unique as it is the only tool specifically designed as a measurement-based care

(MBC) instrument. It includes 18 clinician-administered scales covering most adult

symptom domains: anxiety, obsessions, compulsions, posttraumatic stress, depression,

mania, delusions, hallucinations, disorganized thoughts, aggression, negative symptoms,

alcohol use, drug use, attention deficit, hyperactivity, anorexia, binge-eating, and bulimia.

Additionally, 15 self-administered versions of the SCIP scales were developed, covering

anxiety, obsessions, compulsions, posttraumatic stress, depression, mania, delusions,

hallucinations, alcohol use, drug use, attention deficit, hyperactivity, anorexia, binge-eating,

and bulimia. Dr. Aboraya is the author and copyright holder of the SCIP.