Education & Training

Medical Education: After earning a B.A. at the University of Mississippi and a M.S. at Mississippi College, I earned my medical degree from the University of Mississippi School of Medicine. 

Post-graduate education:  I completed my residency and fellowship training at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I am board-certified by the American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology in both General Psychiatry (2015) and in Psychosomatic Medicine (2017). During general psychiatry training, I completed additional training electives in Dialectic Behavioral Therapy (more information on DBT here) and Attachment and Psychoanalysis with the Psychoanalytic Center of the Carolinas. (more information on attachment styles here.)

I have additional fellowship training with board certification in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry (formerly named Psychosomatic Medicine), which focuses on the overlap of medical and psychiatric issues. During my fellowship I focused on psychiatric care for cancer patients, palliative medicine, decision-making capacity, delirium, post-ICU care, and psychological issues that arise during serious illness. 

Experience

Following residency and fellowship, I worked in private practice at North Raleigh Psychiatry, P.A.. I also served as a psychiatric consultant at UNC Rex Hospital in Raleigh, North Carolina providing psychiatric evaluations in the emergency department and also for medically or surgically hospitalized patients. I also worked part-time at the R.J. Blackley Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment Center.

Professional Memberships

Texas Medical Association, Austin Psychiatric Society, Travis County Medical Society, Austin Psychoanalytic 

Honors

Selected as one of Austin Monthly's "Top Doctors" in 2022 and 2023, Texas Super Doctors "Rising Stars" in 2024, William Hollister Community Service Award (2016), Gold Humanism Honor Society (2011)