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Dr. Lloyda Williamson
Assistant Professor,
Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine,
University of Alabama, School of Medicine
(University Medical Center, Tuscaloosa Campus)
She graduated from Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee in 1990. She
completed her Psychiatry Residency and Child Psychiatry Fellowship at Emory University
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences in Atlanta, Georgia in 1993
and 1995 respectively. She served as Chief Resident in Child Psychiatry
from 1994-1995. She is board certified in both Psychiatry and Child Psychiatry
by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.
She joined the faculty at Morehouse School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry
as Instructor and held the position of Medical Director of the South Central
Fulton Community Mental Health Center from 1995-1996.
She later joined the private practice offices of Southern Crescent Psychiatry
and Counseling Center in Peachtree City and Newnan, Georgia from 1996-1997.
She worked as an Independent Contractor in Psychiatry in the area of community
mental health for several counties in the area of Atlanta, Georgia for several
months during 1997. She then served as a Staff Psychiatrist and Associate
Medical Director for Laurel Heights Hospital, an intensive residential center
in Atlanta, Georgia. She was on staff there from 1997-2000. She also
provided psychiatric services for the therapeutic foster care program at that
facility. Additionally, she was active as a Volunteer Clinical Assistant
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Emory University Department
of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.
She relocated to Tuscaloosa, Alabama and was in private practice from 2001-2005
in the areas of Child, Adolescent and Adult Psychiatry. She has been active
as a speaker for the Tuscaloosa Chapter of the National Alliance for the Mentally
Ill to help promote the Breaking the Silence Curriculum for use in the educational
system.
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