Dr. Kilgus graduated with a bachelor’s degree in biology, a master’s degree in science education and a doctoral degree in curriculum development from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. He then earned his medical degree from the University of South Carolina in Columbia and completed a general psychiatry residency and a child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at William S. Hall Psychiatric Institute in Columbia, South Carolina.
Dr. Kilgus is certified in general psychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, with additional training in basic forensic evaluation and juvenile basic forensic evaluation from the Institute of Law Psychiatry and Public Policy at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. With more than 30 years of expertise in general, child and adolescent psychiatry, he most recently served as the designated institutional official for graduate medical education for the Tri-County Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse in Columbia, South Carolina. He also served as an emergency psychiatry liaison attending and as resident rotation director for MUSC Health in Orangeburg, South Carolina. He is currently a professor for the Department of Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Science at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine in Columbia.
Throughout his medical career, Dr. Kilgus has been involved with educating and training medical students and resident physicians, directing programs, designing innovative curricula, delivering lectures and seminars, and supervising clinical rotations. A member of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the Christian Medical & Dental Associations, he has authored several publications and performs clinical and service-delivery research.
Dr. Kilgus proudly joins the experienced faculty in Lexington Medical Center’s Graduate Medical Education program to provide comprehensive psychiatry training to family medicine and transitional year resident physicians.
