Brian Kirkpatrick, M.D., Joins UAMS’ Walker Family Clinic

By Tim Taylor

The Walker Family Clinic provides outpatient mental health services to adults 18 years and older. The clinic offers psychiatric evaluation, medication management, neuropsychological testing and psychotherapy for individuals and couples as well as group sessions. The clinic is located in the UAMS Psychiatric Research Institute on the Little Rock campus.

A graduate of the University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Kirkpatrick most recently served as a professor and chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Nevada at Reno School of Medicine. He is a former chair of the Department of Psychiatry at Texas A&M College of Medicine and vice chair of the Medical College of Georgia Department of Psychiatry and Health Behavior. A professor in the UAMS College of Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry, Kirkpatrick’s research and clinical work focuses on schizophrenia and related disorders.

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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