Assistant/Associate Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

About the Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist Position

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 and serve on our community and school-based telemedicine programs and consultation-liaison clinical team in Austin, Texas. We seek a physician 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 stay mentally 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 of the DMS HRI work to address the clinical needs of the programs which address urgent mental health challenges and improve the mental health care system in Texas for children, adolescents and their 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 line for physicians, Texas Child Health Access through Telemedicine (TCHATT), a school-based telehealth program and Child Psychiatry Workforce Expansion (CWPE) projects for the Central Texas catchment area. We are also integrated in our local mental health community clinics.

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 with the physician providing clinical care at a Local Mental Health Authority and/or Dell Children’s Medical Center remotely.

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Required:

• Unrestricted license to practice medicine in the State of Texas, or the ability to obtain prior to appointment.
• Board certified in child and adolescent psychiatry, or board eligible with a commitment to obtain certification within two years.
• Eligible for credentialing and privileging by Ascension Seton.
• Eligible for credentialing and privileging in the local mental health authority.
• Eligible for appointment as an assistant professor or higher in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.
• Eligible for faculty appointment with The University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School.

Preferred:

• Demonstrated leadership, clinical teaching, evaluation, and communication skills.
• Ability to influence and motivate others at all professional and administrative levels.
• Innovative self-starter with a commitment to excellence.
• Possess tenacity, self-motivation and initiative necessary to drive the development and maintenance of established and new programs. A track record of being able to lead, direct, and influence a team regardless of reporting lines, as well as be a team player. #healthstartshere2

About UT Dell Medical School

About Dell Medical School and the University of Texas at Austin Medical Center
As part of The University of Texas at Austin, one of the nation’s leading research universities, the Dell Medical School pursues innovation in the redesign of healthcare delivery, excellence in healthcare research, and programs in interdisciplinary and inter-professional education. It is the fifth medical school in the UT 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 a hallmark of academic medicine.
The Dell Medical School is especially interested in qualified candidates who can contribute to excellence within the learning health system.