Tania Michaels, M.D.

Tania Michaels, M.D., is a board-certified pediatrician and pediatric psychiatrist at UT Health Austin Pediatric Psychiatry at Dell Children’s, a clinical partnership between Dell Children’s Medical Center and UT Health Austin. She specializes in the interface between medicine and psychiatry with a focus on providing psychiatric care to medically complex patients.

Michaels earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology and theatre arts from Tulane University, a postbaccalaureate premedical certificate from Northwestern University and her medical degree from Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University. She completed a residency in general pediatrics at Loma Linda University Health and a combined fellowship in adult psychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University/UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital through the Post Pediatric Portal Program in Cleveland, Ohio.

Michaels provides inpatient consult-liaison services at Dell Children’s Medical Center and outpatient consultation services at Dell Children’s – Comprehensive Care Clinic. She has a special interest in providing compassionate and comprehensive care for children with intellectual and developmental disorders and/or complex medical issues. She currently serves as an active member of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and was a past recipient of the AACAP John E. Schowalter, MD, Educational Outreach Program Award.