
Psychiatrist- Outpatient/ Memorial Hermann Pediatric Specialty Outpatient Clinic at Katy - Louis A. Faillace, MD., Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences of McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston is seeking qualified candidates to join our excellent faculty team. This is a great opportunity to join a state-of-the-art Behavioral Sciences Campus with 2 psychiatric hospitals serving 500 beds total, and 29 clinics throughout the local Houston area. Located in the heart of the largest medical center in the nation, we have a vigorous research enterprise and multiple educational programs including a large residency program, child and adolescent fellowship, psychology interns, and more. Our robust collegial atmosphere fosters collaboration and teamwork! The position would assist in providing exceptional teaching and supervisory opportunities to residents and medical students as a key training site for the McGovern Medical School and soon to our NEW School of Behavioral Health Sciences, opening in the fall of 2025.
Position Key Accountabilities:
The Faculty will serve as an outpatient attending for the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, with assignment to the Memorial Hermann Pediatric Specialty Outpatient Clinic at Katy. The selected candidate will provide direct patient care, teaching, and supervision of medical students, residents, and fellows and will contribute to the Department's missions of education, research, and patient care.
Qualifications:
- M.D. or equivalent degree.
- Licensed or license-eligible in the State of Texas.
- Board Certified or Board Eligible in General Psychiatry and Child & Adolescent Psychiatry.
- Experience or interest in research and/or education is preferred.
Depending on the applicant’s qualifications and credentials, faculty appointment at the Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Professor rank will be offered.

Established in 1972 by The University of Texas System Board of Regents, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston) is Houston’s Health University and Texas’ resource for health care education, innovation, scientific discovery and excellence in patient care. The most comprehensive academic health center in the UT System and the U.S. Gulf Coast region, UTHealth Houston is home to schools of biomedical informatics, biomedical sciences, dentistry, nursing and public health and the John P. and Kathrine G. McGovern Medical School. UTHealth Houston includes The University of Texas Harris County Psychiatric Center, as well as the growing clinical practices UT Physicians, UT Dentists and UT Health Services. The university’s primary teaching hospitals are Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center, Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital and Harris Health Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital.
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