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Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Faculty and Staff

Fellowship Program Administration

Sarah Y. Vinson, M.D.
Interim Chair for
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
CAP Fellowship Program Director
svinson@msm.edu

Dr. Sarah Y. Vinson is an Associate Professor Clinical Psychiatry, the Medical Advisor for the SAMHSA African American Behavioral Health Center of Excellence and the Interim Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Morehouse School of Medicine. She completed her undergraduate studies at Florida A & M University and her M.D. from the University of Florida College of Medicine where she graduated with Research Honors and as an Inductee in the Chapman Humanism Society. She completed her post-graduate training at Cambridge Healt Alliance - Harvard Medical School for general psychiatry residency and at Emory for fellowships in both Child & Adolescent and Forensic Psychiatry. She is triple-board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.

Dr. Vinson is the co-editor of two texts, Social (in)Justice and Mental Health and Pediatric Mental Health for Primary Care Providers. She holds multiple national leadership positions in organized psychiatry and at the criminal legal - mental health interface. She is also a member of the American College of Psychiatry, an honorary association for psychiatrists who have demonstrated excellence in the field of psychiatry, and achieved national recognition in clinical practice, research, academic leadership, or teaching. She has won multiple awards, including the Jeanne Spurlock APA Minority Fellowship Alumni Award, The Atlanta 40 Under 40, a NAMI Exemplary Psychiatrist Award, and the Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture's 2022 Creative Scholarship Award for Social (In)Justice and Mental Health.

 

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