Psychiatry Department

The District Medical Group Department of Psychiatry is a large and dynamic group of adult and child psychiatrists, psychologists, full-time licensed counselors, nurse practitioners and additional staff.

We are the  leading provider of behavioral health services in Arizona. We staff two acute-care psychiatric hospitals with a total of 190 beds – the largest number of behavioral health beds in Arizona outside of the Arizona State Hospital.

We operate our own outpatient psychiatric clinic – Desert Horizons Psychiatric Services, and provide full-time psychiatric consultation/liaison services to multiple acute care hospitals, community and tribal clinics, long term care facilities, schools and residential treatment programs, the Arizona Juvenile Probation Facilities, and provide an ECT service as well.

Here, you’ll find links to our various programs, facilities and specialties within the field. What have notoriously been isolated, or even neglected fields of research and study, the neuro and social sciences are now coming together to completely revolutionize our understanding of the human mind, and its connection with the body and our environment.

These developments are a testament to the productivity of our faculty and trainees in researching, teaching, implementing, consulting and disseminating continually evolving best practices in the field.