Assistant Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Assistant Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

College/School/Unit:
Dell Medical School

Department:
Department of Psychiatry

Posted:
Mar 11, 2025

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About Dell Medical School

As part of The University of Texas at Austin, one of the nation'sleading research universities, the Dell Medical School pursues innovation in the redesign of healthcare delivery, excellence in healthcare research, and programs in interdisciplinary andinter-professional education. It is the fifth medical school in theUT System and the first medical school established in nearly five decades by a member of the Association of American Universities, an organization of leading public and private research universities.

The University of Texas Medical Center, anchored by Dell Medical School, is defining the future of health. Announced in August 2023 with planning and implementation underway, The University of Texas Medical Center will cement Austin as a premier destination for health care alongside other major Texas cities.

With two new, state-of-the-art hospitals - A UT specialty hospital and a cancer center being built by MD Anderson - plus the academic and research expertise of UT, The University of Texas Medical Center will provide the integrated, world-class care that is ahallmark of academic medicine.

The Dell Medical School is especially interested in qualified candidates who can contribute to excellence within the health learning system.

Our department leads psychiatry education for the Dell Medical School and its post-graduate programs train mental health professionals to become 21st-century leaders in the fields ofpsychiatry and psychology. Clinical services provide informed,evidence-based care for individuals and families in multiplegeneral medical and specialty behavioral health settings with anactive and strong presence in community settings. Importantly, the Department is leading efforts at the University of Texas-Austin toexecute cutting-edge basic and clinical research that illuminatesthe underlying neurobiological causes of psychiatric disorders and identifies novel treatments for psychiatric disorders.

The Dell Medical School (DMS) Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences is seeking a board certified/board eligible

Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist to join the clinical faculty andserve on our community and school-based telemedicine programs and consultation-liaison clinical team in Austin, Texas. We seek aphysician who will help the Department achieve our goal of working with community partners to develop clinical, educational and research initiatives that revolutionize how people get and staymentally healthy in Central Texas and beyond. Student loan forgiveness is available for faculty of the Department of Psychiatry through the Texas Mental Health Professionals Loan Repayment Program.

Additionally, DMS is a Health Research Institute (HRI) of the Texas Child Mental Health Care Consortium. The program and projects ofthe DMS HRI work to address the clinical needs of the programs which address urgent mental health challenges and improve themental health care system in Texas for children, adolescents andtheir families. This position will provide clinical and consultative care as a part of the Child and Perinatal Psychiatric Access Network (CPAN and PeriPAN), a telephone consultation linefor physicians, Texas Child Health Access through Telemedicine(TCHATT), a school-based telehealth program and Child Psychiatry Workforce Expansion (CWPE) projects for the Central Texas catchmentarea.

We are also integrated in our local mental health communityclinics.

Primary responsibilities will include providing clinical expertise to evaluate and treat a broad spectrum of mental health challengesfor children and adolescents and in support of physicians who callthe Child and Perinatal Psychiatric Access Network for consultation. The physician would also provide psychiatric care to children and adolescents as part of the Community Psychiatry Workforce Expansion (CPWE) program. This program is part of recentlegislative funding to increase access to pediatric mental health services across Texas.

We seek candidates committed to providing exemplary care and treatment that restores hope and helps patients live healthier,fuller lives. A clinical assignment will occur through our Department's collaborations with the Seton Healthcare Family…