Psychiatrists Gokarakonda, Reeves Join UAMS Child Study Center

Sept. 9, 2019 |  

LITTLE ROCK — Psychiatrists Srinivasa Gokarakonda, M.D., and Molly Reeves, M.D., have joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and see patients in the outpatient Child Study Center.

The Child Study Center provides consultation, assessment and management for children with psychiatric conditions such as trauma, depression, anxiety, ADHD, behavior problems and psychosis.

Gokarakonda also sees patients in the Center for Addiction Services and Treatment in the UAMS Psychiatric Research Institute.

Gokarakonda is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry in the UAMS College of Medicine. He earned a bachelor’s from Andhra University in Visakhapatnam in India and a master’s in public health from Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Kentucky. He completed a residency in psychiatry at UAMS in 2017 and a fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry in 2019.

Reeves, also an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry, graduated from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville with a bachelor’s in microbiology. She graduated from the UAMS College of Medicine in 2013 and completed a residency in psychiatry at the University of Texas for Health Sciences in San Antonio, Texas. She completed a fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Alabama in Birmingham in 2018.

UAMS is the state’s only health sciences university, with colleges of Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Health Professions and Public Health; a graduate school; a hospital; a main campus in Little Rock; a Northwest Arkansas regional campus in Fayetteville; a statewide network of regional campuses; and eight institutes: the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, Jackson T. Stephens Spine & Neurosciences Institute, Harvey & Bernice Jones Eye Institute, Psychiatric Research Institute, Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging, Translational Research Institute, Institute for Digital Health & Innovation and the Institute for Community Health Innovation. UAMS includes UAMS Health, a statewide health system that encompasses all of UAMS’ clinical enterprise. UAMS is the only adult Level 1 trauma center in the state. UAMS has 3,275 students, 890 medical residents and fellows, and five dental residents. It is the state’s largest public employer with more than 12,000 employees, including 1,200 physicians who provide care to patients at UAMS, its regional campuses, Arkansas Children’s, the VA Medical Center and Baptist Health. Visit www.uams.edu or uamshealth.com. Find us on Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), YouTube or Instagram.

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