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Kristin Escamilla, M.D.

Education

M.D.
UT Southwestern Medical School

Residency/Fellowship

Residency, Psychiatry
UT Southwestern Medical School

Fellowship, Psychosomatic Medicine
Dell Medical School

About

Kristin Escamilla, M.D., is double-board-certified in adult psychiatry and consultation-liaison psychiatry. She received a Bachelor of Arts in psychology from the University of Notre Dame in 2005 and her medical degree in 2009 from The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. Escamilla then returned to her hometown of Austin, Texas, and completed her psychiatry residency at UT Southwestern-Austin in 2014 and her psychosomatic fellowship at Dell Medical School in 2015.

With an interest in serving the people in her community, Escamilla did emergency psychiatry work at Dell Seton Medical Center for three years in the same hospital she volunteered at as a teenager. She has now focused her clinical attention on crisis care in a community psychiatry setting. She directs fourth-year medical student electives in psychiatry and is an active council member of the Association of Directors of Medical Student Education in Psychiatry.

Professional Affiliations
  • American Psychiatric Association
  • Association for Academic Psychiatry
  • Association of Directors of Medical Education in Psychiatry
  • Austin Psychiatric Society
  • Travis County Medical Society