Erica C. Garcia-Pittman, M.D., FAPA, DFAAGP

Erica C. Garcia-Pittman specializes in geriatric psychiatry and previously served as the medical director of the Generations Outpatient Program. She is also the current Ascension Medical Group Seton Behavioral Health outpatient clinical director and is the rotation site director for the adult and geriatric psychiatry outpatient training clinics. She serves as program director of the Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship program at Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin.

Garcia-Pittman spends the majority of her clinical time teaching and training psychiatry residents and medical students to care for older adults. Her clinical focus includes working with families and caring for patients who have late-life mood and anxiety symptoms as well as changes in memory and behavior. Her direct teaching responsibilities span the undergraduate medical education, graduate medical education and continuing medical education spectrum. She has been involved in clinical training for the psychiatry residency program since 2009, across the four years of training, including formal lectures, small group discussions as well as clinical supervision.

She received her undergraduate degree in chemistry from Rice University in Houston and completed her medical degree at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. Her psychiatry residency training was completed at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, and she completed a fellowship in geriatric psychiatry at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle. She is board-certified in psychiatry and geriatric psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.

Garcia-Pittman is an active member of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, American Psychiatric Association, American College of Psychiatrists, Austin Psychiatric Society, Texas Society of Psychiatric Physicians, Travis County Medical Society and Texas Medical Association. She previously served the City of Austin on the Commission on Aging. She is the co-chair of the Resident Education Subcommittee for the AAGP Teaching and Training Committee as well as co-chair of the 2023 and 2024 AAGP Annual Meetings.