Melanie Anne Lobel, MD, PharmD

Dr. Melanie Lobel did her undergraduate work and graduate work finishing a Pharmacy Doctorate from the University of South Carolina College of Pharmacy in Columbia, SC. She practiced clinical pharmacy for ten years in Hilton Head, South Carolina and was then accepted at MUSC College of Medicine. She completed a general psychiatry residency and an additional fellowship year of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of South Carolina Department of Neuropsychiatry. Her last years have been spent providing excellent patient care in an acute care hospital setting in Lexington, SC before joining MUSC Department of Psychiatry. Dr. Lobel's focus is medication-related psychiatric syndromes such as medication toxicity, neuroleptic malignant syndrome, anticholinergic toxicity, and PRES. Her experience as a pharmacist has been invaluable in maintaining patient safety while taking psychotropic medications.