Karen Dineen Wagner, M.D.,Ph.D.

Karen Dineen Wagner, M.D.,Ph.D. is the Robert L. Stubblefield Professor and Vice Chair in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Director of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston.

Dr. Wagner received her doctorate in clinical psychology from Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  She attended medical school at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.  Dr. Wagner performed her residency in psychiatry with Harvard Medical School at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.  She then completed a fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry with Harvard Medical School at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts.

Dr. Wagner is an internationally recognized expert in the pharmacological treatment for childhood mood and anxiety disorders.  She received an honorary doctorate (Doctor of Science) from the State University of New York in 2004 for her contributions to the field of child psychiatry.  She has served in leadership positions in professional organizations and is a member of the National Institute of Mental Health Advisory Council.