Department Chair
Jair C. Soares, MD, PhD
- Vice President for Behavioral Sciences
- Executive Director, John S. Dunn Behavioral Sciences Center
- Founding Dean , UTHealth Houston School of Behavioral Health Sciences
- Professor & Pat R. Rutherford, Jr. Chair in Psychiatry, Louis A. Faillace, MD, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
- Director, Center of Excellence on Mood Disorders
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Ron Acierno, PhD
- Professor
- Vice Chair, Veteran Affairs
- Executive Director, UTHealth Trauma and Resilience Center
Zachary S. Appenzeller, PsyD
- Assistant Professor
- Director, UTHealth Houston Center for Eating Disorders
Dean Atkinson, MD
- Assistant Professor
- Associate Program Director - General Psychiatry Residency Program
Sangeeta Awasthi, MD
- Assistant Professor, Louis A. Faillace Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Taiwo Babatope, MD, MPH, MBA
- Assistant Professor
- Training Director , Child and Adolescent Fellowship Program
- Director, ASD and Neurodevelopmental Disorders Specialty Care
- Director, Senate Bill 11 HRI - Texas Child Mental Health Care Services
Elizabeth Baumler, PhD
- Professor, Louis A. Faillace Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
- Director of Biostatistics, Center for Violence Prevention
Joao L. de Quevedo, MD, PhD
- Professor
- John S. Dunn Distinguished Professor
- Vice Chair, Faculty Development & Outreach
- Director, Interventional Psychiatry Program
- Director, Treatment-Resistant Depression Clinic
J. Chase Findley, MD
- Associate Professor
- Assistant Dean, Accreditation and Educational Quality Improvement
Brandi Karnes, MD
- Assistant Professor
- Associate Program Director - General Psychiatry Residency Program
Peter Kochunov, PhD, MS, MSEE, DABMP
- Professor, Louis A. Faillace Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
- John S. Dunn Chair , John S. Dunn Behavioral Sciences Center
Scott D. Lane, PhD
- Professor and Vice Chair for Research
- Director of Research, UTHealth Houston Dunn Behavioral Sciences Campus
- Associate Director, Center for Neurobehavioral Research on Addiction
Katherine A. Loveland, PhD
- Landmark Charities Professor in Autism Research and Treatment
- Director, UTHealth Psychology Internship Program
- Director, Center for Human Development Research
- Director, UTHealth C.L.A.S.S. Clinic
Rodrigo Machado-Vieira, MD, PhD, MSc
- Professor
- Director, Bipolar Disorder Program
- Director, Experimental Therapeutics and Molecular Pathophysiology Program
Thomas D. Meyer, PhD
- Professor
- Director, Psychological Intervention & Research Program on Mood Spectrum Disorders
- Co-Director, The UTHealth Brain Collection for Research in Psychiatric Disorders
B. Isabel Moallem
- Assistant Professor, Louis A. Faillace Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Bobby Nix, MD
- Associate Professor
- Vice Chair, Clinical Affairs
- Director, UT Physicians Behavioral Health Outpatient Services
Deborah A. Pearson, PhD
- Professor
- Director, Developmental Neuropsychology Clinic
- Associate Director, Clinical Psychology Internship Program
- Co-Director, Lonestar LEND (Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disorders)
Anilkumar Pillai, PhD
- Professor
- Louis A. Faillace, MD, Chair in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
- Director, Pathophysiology of Neuropsychiatric Disorders Program
- Director, Research Track Residency Program
- Associate Program Director, General Psychiatry Residency Program
Alan R. Prossin, MBBS
- Associate Professor
- Director, Neuroimmune Interactions in Depression, Addiction, and Pain (NIDAP)
- Director, Interdisciplinary PET Working Group
Marsal Sanches, MD, PhD, FAPA
- Professor, Faillace Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
- Attending Psychiatrist and Associate Director for Research, UT Health Dunn Behavioral Sciences Campus
Lokesh Shahani, MD, PhD, MPH, FACP, FASAM
- Associate Professor
- Chief Medical Officer, UTHealth Houston Behavioral Sciences Campus
- Vice Chair Inpatient Clinical Services , Louis A. Faillace, MD, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at UTHealth Houston
Jair C. Soares, MD, PhD
- Vice President for Behavioral Sciences
- Executive Director, John S. Dunn Behavioral Sciences Center
- Founding Dean , UTHealth Houston School of Behavioral Health Sciences
- Professor & Pat R. Rutherford, Jr. Chair in Psychiatry, Louis A. Faillace, MD, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
- Director, Center of Excellence on Mood Disorders
Cesar A. Soutullo, MD, PhD
- John S. Dunn Professor
- Vice Chair and Chief, Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
- Director, ADHD Outpatient Program
Sason Tavakoli-Sabour, DO
- Assistant Professor, Louis A. Faillace Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Leslie K. Taylor, PhD
- Assistant Professor
- Clinical Director, Child Services, Trauma and Resilience Center
Jeff R. Temple, PhD
- Professor
- Associate Dean for Clinical Research , School of Behavioral Health Sciences at UTHealth Houston
- Betty and Rose Pfefferbaum Chair in Child Mass Trauma and Resilience
Consuelo Walss-Bass, PhD
- Professor
- John S. Dunn Foundation Distinguished Chair in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
- Director, Psychiatric Genetics Program
- Director, UTHealth Brain Collection for Research in Psychiatric Disorders
- Co-Director, Translational Psychiatry Program
Alexandra Ward, MD
- Assistant Professor, Louis A. Faillace Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Michael Weaver, MD, DFASAM
- Professor
- Medical Director, Center for Neurobehavioral Research on Addiction
Leila Wood, PhD, MSSW
- Professor, Louis A. Faillace Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
- Director of Research and Evaluation, Center for Violence Prevention
