Nubia G. Lluberes Rincon, MD CCHP-MH FAPA

Biography

Born and raised in the Dominican Republic, Dr. Lluberes completed her medical school, internal medicine residency training, and worked as an internist there. She migrated to the U.S. to pursue psychiatry residency training. Bilingual and bicultural, she is a Double Board-Certified Psychiatrist. Dr. Lluberes trained in general psychiatry at the University of Texas in Houston. She completed additional community and forensic psychiatry fellowships at the University of Pittsburgh, Western Psychiatry Institute and Clinic. She has worked in public health and inpatient psychiatry in underserved/physician shortage areas.

Dr. Lluberes is passionate about providing care for the most vulnerable patients, the incarcerated mentally ill. Dr. Lluberes is a certified correctional mental health professional (CCHP-MH) by the National Commission on Correctional Health Care (NCCHC). She has served as a psychiatric physician consultant to various penal systems and lectured on various medical/legal and forensic psychiatric topics. She enjoys teaching medical student students and other trainees about the nuances of the criminal justice system. In 2016, Dr. Lluberes received the American Psychiatric Association (APA) award “For the Advancement of Minority Mental Health” for raising awareness in underserved minority communities about mental illness. She is a fellow APA (FAPA) member and has served as chairperson for the APA Foundation Diversity Fellowship from 2018 to 2022. Dr. Lluberes is a member of the Group for the advancement of Psychiatry (GAP), American Psychiatric Association (APA), and the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (AAPL), among other  professional associations.