Dr. Elijah Wilder, D.O., has a deep passion and commitment to delivering compassionate, high quality, individualized, evidence-based psychiatric care. Through extensive experience managing high acuity patients, including those with CKD and ESRD, he identified a critical gap in accessible mental health services for people requiring kidney care. In response, he collaborated with kidney care leaders to found ACTIVATECR, grounded in the belief that telehealth is the most effective and natural way to meet the mental health needs of people with late-stage CKD and those requiring dialysis.

Dr. Wilder was born and raised in Raleigh, North Carolina. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from Campbell University. He attended medical school at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. He completed Psychiatry residency training at prestigious Duke University, followed by Addiction Psychiatry fellowship subspecialty training at the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Wilder is dual board-certified in both Psychiatry and Addiction Psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, and he is also a member of the American Psychiatric Association and the American Medical Association. He has over 12 years of experience providing specialized care in mental health and addiction treatment. Prior to joining Renal Psychiatry Services, he has worked in various care settings including inpatient, outpatient, long-term care, detoxification, and residential facilities, and he has recently served as Regional Medical Director for a large addiction treatment consortium with countless facilities across the entire country. He has also held an ongoing appointment as Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of Cincinnati - Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience.