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Ralph de Similien, MD

Specialty: 
Psychiatry - Adult
Physician Group: 
UT Health East Texas Physicians
Practices At: 

UT Health Tyler

1000 S. Beckham Ave.
Tyler, TX 75701
903-597-0351

UT Health North Campus Tyler

11937 US Hwy 271
Tyler, TX 75708
903-877-7000

Ralph de Similien, MD, MS, M.Ed., MPH, is a board-certified psychiatrist at the UT Health East Texas Behavioral Center. Dr. de Similien provides mental health services and care for patients age 17 and older. “I became interested in medicine, specifically in psychiatry, at a very young age because those I saw in need of care did not have access to it. Growing up in Haiti, you were lucky to have access to a physician and even luckier to ever meet a psychiatrist.”

Dr. de Similien’s interests range broadly in the area of mental health. They include, but are not limited to, minority mental health; public, community and rural mental health; teaching; academic leadership and administration; mental health delivery in the young adult population and studying the negative impacts of the various social determinants of mental health on disenfranchised populations.

Dr. de Similien also speaks French and Haitian Creole and enjoys reading and writing.

Board Certifications: 

American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Board Certification

 

Education: 

Master of Public Health: Health and Social Behavior, Harvard University School of Public Health, Boston, Mass. 

Fellowship: Public and Community Psychiatry, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.

Residency: General Psychiatry, Howard University Hospital, Washington

Doctor of Medicine: Wayne State University, Detroit

Master of Science: Wayne State University, Detroit

Master of Eduation: The University of Illinois at Chicago

Bachelor of Arts: Economics, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa

American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Diplomate

American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry, Member

American Association of Psychiatric Administrators, Member

American Psychiatric Association, Member

American Association of Community Psychiatrists, Member