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Matt Kern, M.D., and Andrea McMahon, M.D.
Matt Kern, M.D., Andrea McMahon, M.D. Join UAMS Psychiatric Research Institute-Northwest
| FAYETTEVILLE — Matt Kern, M.D., and Andrea McMahon, M.D., have joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Psychiatric Research Institute – Northwest as outpatient psychiatrists.
Both are assistant professors in the UAMS College of Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry.
PRI – Northwest provides outpatient mental health services to adults 18 years and up. The clinic is also home to UAMS Health AR ConnectNow, which provides virtual behavioral health care, and the Employee Assistance Program, which contracts with local businesses to offer a variety of mental-health and social services.
Kern, who also will be seeing patients at the University of Arkansas’ Pat Walker Student Health Clinic, is a native of Fort Smith. He graduated from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville in 2011 and from UAMS’ College of Medicine in 2015. He completed a residency in psychiatry at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, in 2019, serving as chief resident. He completed a fellowship in geriatric psychiatry in 2020 and went on to join the faculty of Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist’s Department of Psychiatry as an assistant professor later that year.
McMahon is a 2019 graduate of the UAMS College of Medicine and recently completed a residency in psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she was chief resident. She will also be seeing patients at the University of Arkansas’ Pat Walker Health Center and the UAMS Northwest Regional Campus Wellness Program.
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.###