Our Speakers

Dr. Altha J. Stewart is Sr. Associate Dean for Community Health Engagement & Director of Public and Community Psychiatry, University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis. She leads the department’s efforts to create a community psychiatry program to expand the local behavioral health workforce. A graduate of Temple University Medical School, she completed residency at Drexel University. Over the past four decades, she led large public mental health systems in Pennsylvania, New York, and Michigan.  She currently serves on the boards of Meadows MH Policy Institute, JED Foundation, DBSA, the University of Tennessee College of Social Work Board of Visitors, and Memphis Mental Health Institute, as well as a member of the Congressional Black Caucus Emergency Task Force on Black Youth Suicide and the Tennessee Commission on Children and Youth. At the end of May 2022, she begins her term as president of American Association of Community Psychiatry. She is past president of the American Psychiatric Association, Black Psychiatrists of America, and Association of Women Psychiatrists.