Dr. Marilou G. Tablang-Jimenez
Dr. Marilou Tablang-Jimenez was honored on September 3, 2022, for her exemplary work to recognize and provide psychiatric help to those in need, based on her journey of overcoming unimaginable challenges. We applaud your service to your community filled with love and compassion.
Dr. Marilou G. Tablang-Jimenez, MD, DFAPA is the new Medical Director of the Addiction and Mental Health Center (AMHC) at MedStar Montgomery Medical Center. Dr. Tablang-Jimenez was born and raised in the Philippines until the age 18. She graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology from the University of Maryland, College Park, and received her Medical Degree from De La Salle University. She completed her General Psychiatry Residency at Georgetown University in 1996 and her Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship at Johns Hopkins University in 1998.
She is Certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in both General Psychiatry and Child & Adolescent Psychiatry since 1998. She was awarded her Fellowship Status by the American Psychiatric Association in 2009 and was honored as a Distinguished Fellow in 2010. She has worked with the most prestigious institutions in the past, Kennedy Krieger and Sheppard Pratt, and more recently, she has joined the faculty of Georgetown University Medical School. She splits her time as Medical Director of a Group Practice that bears her name, Montgomery County Crisis Center and MedStar Montgomery Medical Center's Department of Psychiatry.
She supervises Training Residents from the Uniformed Health University of the Health Services (UHSHS) who rotate through the Crisis Center. She is the current Councilor of the Southern Medical Association, representing both Maryland and DC. She also serves as a member of the Coordinating Committee on Membership. She is the Immediate-Past President of the Suburban Maryland Psychiatric Society and a member of the Board of Directors of the Washington Psychiatric Society.
Dr. Tablang-Jimenez has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Philippine Medical Association – Metropolitan Washington, DC for more than a decade and her most recent roles were that of President and of Executive Director. She has received recognition from professional and community organizations for her work. Her most recent accomplishment is being voted by her peers as one of the 2016 Top Doctors by Washingtonian Magazine.
