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Rene Olvera, MD, MPH

Department Chair of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
UT Health San Antonio
San Antonio, Texas




Rene L. Olvera MD, MPH

Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.


I completed his undergraduate studies at Harvard University and my medical school and psychiatry residency training were completed at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas. I arrived at UT Health San Antonio for my Child and Adolescent Psychiatry fellowship training and joined the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry as a faculty member in 1995.

I leveraged a faculty Development Award from the Department of Health and Resource Service Administration and the UTHSCSA Hispanic Center of Excellence, to obtain a Master of Public Health degree from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Public Health-San Antonio campus.

I am dually board certified in Psychiatry, and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and divide his time between administration, patient care, research, and teaching. My clinical focus has been treating children and adolescents from underserved areas. I have been an investigator on numerous NIMH funded studies with a research focus on the clinical expression of mood disorders and potential biomarkers of risk moderated by genetic and environmental risk and ascertained through neuroimaging.

Past leadership roles include serving as a member of the Texas Juvenile Justice Board of Directors, the Psychiatry Clerkship Director for the Regional Academic Health Center in the Rio Grande Valley, the Medical Director for Clarity Child Guidance Center /UT outpatient services, and the Chief of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. I most recently served as the Chief Medical Officer for the Center for Health Care Services, the local mental health authority for Bexar County, and the Vice-Chair for Community Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.


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