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Department of Psychiatry

TTHSC Lubbock’s Department of Psychiatry serves as the leading provider of child and adolescent psychiatry services in the West Texas region. TTHSC Lubbock is an active member of the Texas Child Mental Health Care Consortium. The Department provides tertiary child mental health services to 558 primary care physicians across 100 clinics in West Texas through the Child Psychiatry Access Network (CPAN) program. More than 159,000 children located in 91 school districts in West Texas are provided mental health services through TTHSC Lubbock’s Texas Child Health Access Through Telemedicine (TCHATT) program.

Besides research in youth depression and trauma, the Department of Psychiatry is currently involved in multiple research projects that focus on emerging treatment and intervention for substance use disorders. Specific projects focus on controlling cravings, provision of mental health resources in schools and rural communities, and research in other modalities of treatment such as electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS).

Regina Baronia, MD, M.Ed.

Regina Baronia, MD, M.Ed.

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Regina Baronia, M.D., M.Ed., is the Research Director of the Psychiatry Department at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center at Lubbock. She is also the current Co-Editor of Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly, a peer-reviewed journal for individual, group, family, and community treatment and recovery.

Dr. Baronia’s research focuses on burnout and experiential avoidance, suicidality, mood disorders, and alcohol and substance use disorders. She has led and mentored psychiatry residents and medical students in projects related to these topics with the aim of improving early diagnosis and intervention for such disorders.

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