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Compass Young Adult Program
Program Leaders
Flynn O'Malley, PhD
Director, Compass Young Adult Program, Associate Professor, Menninger Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine
Dr. O’Malley has more than 26 years of experience at The Menninger Clinic. Throughout his career at Menninger, Dr. O’Malley has held a number of administrative posts and directed various clinical programs. Most recently, he was clinical director for the Adolescent Treatment Program.
Since he joined Menninger in 1981, Dr. O’Malley has been significantly involved in the diagnosis and treatment of troubled young people. He specializes in trauma, anxiety and depression; developmental and behavioral issues; suicide and self-harm prevention and treatment; sexual and gender issues; and diagnosis and treatment of complex psychiatric disorders.
As director for the Compass Program, he has overall responsibility for the clinical, programmatic and administrative aspects of the program. In addition, he provides such services as group and individual therapy, counsultations and psychological evaluations.
A teacher as well as a clinician, he was a faculty member of the Karl Menninger School of Psychiatry & Mental Health Sciences for 18 years. In 1993, he was honored as the John H. Scudder Supervisor. In 2001, Dr. O’Malley was awarded the Barbara Davis Spencer Professorship. He continues to provide supervision and teaching for professionals in training at the Menninger Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at Baylor College of Medicine.
The author of a number of professional papers and a frequent presenter at professional conferences, Dr. O’Malley’s current interests include the process of mentalizing and its role in identifying and treating core issues, the psychotherapy of young people and other issues in specialty inpatient diagnosis and treatment. Recent papers include “Contemporary Issues in the Psychiatric Treatment of Disturbed Adolescents” (2004) and “Mentalizing in the Psychotherapy of a Disturbed Adolescent Girl” (2003).
Dr. O’Malley completed his postdoctoral psychology fellowship at The University of Texas Medical Branch, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Galveston, Texas. He received his doctoral degree in clinical psychology from the University of New Mexico. He is also a Diplomate of the American Board of Professional Psychology in clinical psychology.
Edward Po a, MD
Medical Director, Compass Young Adult Program, The Menninger Clinic; Assistant Professor, Menninger Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine
Dr. Poa leads a multidisciplinary treatment team for the Compass Program. He and his treatment team assess and treat young adults from 18 to 30 who have major psychiatric disorders that may be complicated by chemical dependency or a personality disorder.
He says his role offers him an amazing opportunity to watch the patients grow and blossom into adults as they take on responsibilities, become socially active and begin to repair relationships with their families. Dr. Poa notes that he is proud of Compass patients and to be working alongside competent staff who make the challenging work possible.
Dr. Poa serves on The Menninger Clinic’s Medical Staff Executive Committee, which oversees medical staff policies and medical care, and the Safety/Infection Control Committee. He also chairs the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee which works with the in-house Pharmacy to set medication policy.
As a member of the faculty at Baylor College of Medicine, he serves on multiple committees devoted to medical education including the Undergraduate Education Committee for medical student psychiatric education, the Residency Program Council for psychiatry residency training, and the Student Promotions and Achievement Committee for medical student academic advancement. In addition, Dr. Poa regularly teaches classes at the College for both medical students and residents. His dedication to medical education was reflected when Baylor awarded him with a Faculty Teaching Award in 2006.
Dr. Poa began his psychiatry residency program in the Karl Menninger School of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences while Menninger operated in Kansas. While in the program, he was awarded a distinguished Seeley Fellowship. Dr. Poa completed the final two years of his residency in 2003 in the Baylor College of Medicine’s general adult psychiatry residency program. In 2002, Baylor College of Medicine honored Dr. Poa with the Psychiatry Resident Teaching Award.
He holds a bachelor’s of science degree in biomedical engineering from Northwestern University and a medical degree from Northwestern University Medical School. He is a diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in adult psychiatry.
Dr. Poa is active in the Houston Psychiatric Society, Texas Society of Psychiatric Physicians and American Psychiatric Association.
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