About the Practice

Psychiatry by Mantilla-Rivas was started with the desire to provide the best possible psychiatric care by addressing redundancies in care, missed calls, outdated or bogus treatments, and, in general, unnecessary fluff. Treatment with me is based on your individual needs and circumstances. We use our time working together to prioritize the most effective and sustainable treatment.

During training, questions like “Do you do therapy, too? “Can I see you in therapy?” “Can my neurologist/family doctor/therapist/pediatrician call you?” “What alternatives to medication are there to treat my condition?” “There is this new treatment, do you have time to look at this evidence together?” kept coming on most appointments. I promised to myself that when I graduated, I’d provide care that was efficient, effective, integrative and individualized. I created Psychiatry by Mantilla-Rivas as a response to that.

After training for over 12.000 hours over 5 years and 2 years of being a teaching attending at the outpatient and Consult Liaison Psychiatry services in one of the nation’s top hospitals, I finally decided to start Psychiatry by Mantilla-Rivas. Welcome!

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Photo Credit: Jose Mantilla-Rivas, MD

CoRazón

Baltimore, MD

Now About Me

I am originally from Colombia. I studied Medicine at Universidad de Los Andes (#1 in Colombia, #8 in Latin America), and Fundación Santa Fe de Bogotá (#1 in Colombia, #3 in Latin America, top 250 worldwide).

I chose psychiatry as my career out of passion. Witnessing and accompanying people when they make important changes to their lives, to accept, move on and grow despite difficult diagnoses or life circumstances, and being able to more fully participate in their lives, motivated me to become the physician and psychiatrist that I am today.

As for my training, I started with a research and clinical observership at the pediatric bipolar clinic of UPMC in Pittsburgh during medical school, where some of the most relevant psychopharmacological and psychotherapeutic studies have been done on the topic of child and adolescent bipolar disorder, anxiety disorders in children, and mood disorders in general. I learned to use standardized interviews like the KSADS-PL in research and clinical settings, and helped to develop educational material about the most common medications used to treat those conditions.

My hard work earned me a spot to train in the combined child, adolescent and adult psychiatry program at UPMC (top 10 nationally). I trained for over 12000+ hours to ensure ample exposure to and training in several diagnoses and different ways to treat them. This includes OCD, ADHD, bipolar disorder, trauma-related disorders, eating disorders, autism spectrum disorders, anxiety disorders and depressive disorders. I was fortunate to start my Child and Adolescent Fellowship on my third year of training and had many of my patients follow me for my first post-residency job. This means I have followed 50+ of my patients for 5+ years!.

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Additional Trainings and Credentials

  • Psychodynamic psychiatry training (2021-2023)

    • Western Pennsylvania Community of

      psychoanalytic therapies

  • BTTI - International OCD Foundation (2025)

  • Transcranial magnetic stimulation, esketamine, electroconvulsive therapy (2022-2025)

  • Asylum evaluation training (2021-2025)

  • MIGDAS autism evaluations (2025)

  • CBT-I for insomnia (2025)

  • Board-Certified by ABPN in psychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry (2022-ongoing)

  • Medical License in Florida, Massachusetts, New York, New Hampshire & Pennsylvania

Education

  • MD - Universidad de Los Andes (2010-2016)

  • Psychiatry & Child Psychiatry - UPMC (2018-2023)

Me & a balloon dinosaur at the New York Botanical Garden, 2024, Photo credit unknown.

A smiling man with glasses and a beard wearing a colorful geometric-patterned jacket, a burnt orange shirt, gray sweatpants, and a black watch, standing outdoors near a concrete structure, with grass and fallen leaves in the background.

Figure 1. A Psychiatrist in his Natural Habitat

Schenley Park, Pittsburgh, PA

Photo Credit: Anonymous

Awards, Nominations, Memberships

  • Member - American Psychiatric Association

  • Member - American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

  • Member - American Society of Hispanic Psychiatrists

  • Member - International OCD Foundation

  • Professionalism and teaching accolades as a resident physician

  • Teacher of the year award in 2024 and 2025 at Allegheny Health Network

  • Chief resident of resident wellbeing for the psychiatry program in 2022. Elected chief of house staff for 3 out of 5 years of residency.

  • Nominated for outstanding physician for the Allegheny County Medical Society

  • Peer reviewer for the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry and the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, two of the most influential psychiatry journals

  • Member of the APA’s Spanish Language Communications Task Force