UT Health Sciences News: Nurturing Beginnings – Dr. Alicia Barnes and Team Are Helping Create Healthier Communities for Children

Memphis wasn't on Alicia Barnes' bingo card, but she saw an alignment she couldn't ignore.

The physician arrived three years ago, answering a listserv post from a colleague she had first met as a medical student at a national community psychiatry conference. She wasn't actively looking. Yet when Altha Stewart, MD, posted about a leadership opportunity at the University of Tennessee Health Sciences, Dr. Barnes saw something worth working toward.

Today, Alicia A. Barnes, DO, MPH, holds three titles: director of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at UT Health Sciences, chief of Pediatric Psychiatry at Le Bonheur Children's Hospital, and the inaugural Urban Child Institute Endowed Chair of Excellence in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the university. The latter, a first-of-its-kind appointment, plants her at the cross-section of clinical care, academic medicine, and community health. She doesn't experience them as three separate jobs.

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