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.

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

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