Current Appointments & Affiliations
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
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2021 - Present
Psychiatry, Child & Family Mental Health & Community Psychiatry,
Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Recent Publications
Seasonality of Pediatric Mental Health Emergency Department Visits, School, and COVID-19.
Journal Article Pediatr Emerg Care · December 1, 2022 OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to explore how the academic calendar, and by extension school-year stressors, contributes to the seasonality of pediatric mental health emergency department (ED) visits. METHODS: The authors reviewed all pediatric ment ... Full text Open Access Link to item CiteUse of North Carolina Medicaid Collaborative Care Billing Codes After Statewide Approval for Reimbursement.
Journal Article Psychiatr Serv · December 1, 2022 Effective October 2018, North Carolina Medicaid approved reimbursement for collaborative care model (CoCM) billing codes. From October 2018 through December 2019, only 915 of the estimated two million eligible Medicaid beneficiaries had at least one CoCM c ... Full text Link to item CiteRacial and Ethnic Differences in Psychotropic Prescription Receipt Among Pediatric Patients Enrolled in North Carolina Medicaid.
Journal Article Psychiatr Serv · December 1, 2022 OBJECTIVE: The authors aimed to examine racial-ethnic differences in filled psychotropic prescriptions among a pediatric Medicaid population. METHODS: This retrospective cohort study included patients ages 0-21 with at least one North Carolina Medicaid cla ... Full text Link to item CiteRecent Grants
NC PAL Expansion
Public ServicePhysician · Awarded by NC DHHS · 2022 - 2026View All Grants
Education, Training & Certifications
University of Tennessee Health Science Center ·
2011
M.D.