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Andres J. Pumariega, M.D.   Dr. Pumariega has devoted his career in academic child and adolescent psychiatry devoted to the areas of children’s systems of care and cultural diversity. He is Professor and Director of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry at East Tennessee State University, and Chair of Psychiatry from 1996 to early this year. He is also Director of the ETSU Center of Excellence for Children in State Custody (funded by the TennCare Bureau), which provides technical assistance for services for this population in the Northeast Tennessee region.

He received his M.D. from the University of Miami (1976) and his residency in Psychiatry and fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Duke University Medical Center (1976 to 1980). He directed pediatric psychiatry consultation-liaison services at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (1980-1983) and Baylor College of Medicine/ Texas Children's Hospital (1983-86); then served as Director of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Texas Medical Branch (1986-92) and the University of South Carolina/ William S. Hall Psychiatric Institute (1992-96).  He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP), APA, American Orthopsychiatric Assoc., and Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine; and a member of the American College of Psychiatrists and Society of Professors of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. He has served as Associate Editor of the Journal of Child and Family Studies; co-Chair, National Latino Behavioral Health Work Group and Latino Panel for the CMHS Cultural Competence Standards; founding Chair, Work Group on Systems of Care of the AACAP (1994-2001); Chair, Community Psychiatry Committee, AACAP (2001-Present); Board of Directors, American Association of Community Psychiatrists (1996-Present); and National Advisory Council for the Center for Mental Health Services, SAMHSA (1997-2001). He has over 100 scientific papers, chapters, and monographs and over 130 abstracts, and is co-editor (with H Vance) of Clinical Assessment of Child & Adolescent Behavior (John Wiley, 2001) and co-editor (with N Winters) of the Handbook of Child and Adolescent Systems of Care: The New Community Psychiatry (Jossey Bass, 2003).  Dr. Pumariega has received, among others, the Martin Luther King Award from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (1992), Outstanding Mentor Award from AACAP (1994); Exemplary Psychiatrist Award, National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (1993 & 1997); Certificate of Merit for Beneficiary Services, Health Care Finance Administration (1997); Alumni Hall of Fame of the University of Miami School of Medicine (1999), Ethics in Managed Care Award from the AACP (2000), and the Catcher in the Rye Advocacy Award by the AACAP (2001, as part of the Work Group on Systems of Care).

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Contact Information:

Andres J. Pumariega, M.D.

Director, Child and Adol Psychiatry

East Tennessee State University

PO Box 70567, 107 Hillrise Hall

Johnson City, TN 37614-0567

O: 423-439-7780

Fax: 423-439-7710

E-mail: pumarieg@mail.etsu.edu