Executive Associate Chair, Professor
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas
Carol L. Alter, MD, is the Executive Associate Chair, and Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Texas-Austin, Dell Medical School and a Senior Fellow at the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute. She has over 30 years experience as a C-L psychiatrist and expert in integrating behavioral and physical health across health systems. She has been engaged in research regarding these topics, has helped to implement a number of integration programs across both public and private settings and has been an advocate for policy reforms aimed at insuring reimbursement and access to integrated and collaborative care.
Prior to joining Dell Medical School, she served as the System Lead for Behavioral Health at Baylor Scott and White Health responsible for the development of behavioral health services, including collaborative care (CoCM) delivered to over 2 million primary care patients. She also served as the Chief Medical Officer of Mindoula Health, the first national provider of technology enabled CoCM. She led efforts at Georgetown University to implement a CoCM program in safety net clinics, and partnered with the AIMS Center, the APA and the Kennedy Forum to facilitate reimbursement for CoCM. Her work focusing on delivery of effective behavioral health services in primary care settings has expanded to include a focus on measurement based care. Dr. Alter is the chair of the APA Council on Quality Care.
She attended George Washington University Medical School and received psychiatric training at the Mayo Clinic, Cornell University Medical College, and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Friday, November 8, 2024
1:35 PM – 2:50 PM EST
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
