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Andres J. Pumariega, M.D.

Dr. Pumariega is a national leader in the areas of children's systems of care and cultural diversity issues in child mental health, having consulted, published and lectured extensively on them. He is currently Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the Reading Hospital and Medical Center in Reading, PA; Professor of Psychiatry at Temple University School of Medicine; and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Medicine and New Jersey-Camden campus.

He is the Chair of the American Psychiatric Association's Committee of Hispanic Psychiatrists, and was awarded the American Psychiatric Association's annual Simon Bolivar Award and Lecture in Hispanic Psychiatry at the 2004 American Psychiatric Association meeting in New York City. Amongst numerous other awards, he has also been awarded the Jeanne Spurlock Award and Lecture for Diversity and Culture at the upcoming 2007 American Academy of C & A Psychiatry in Boston.

He received his M.D. from the University of Miami (1976) and completed his residency in Psychiatry and fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Duke University Medical Center (1976 to 1980).

He is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and Fellow of the Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP), American Orthopsychiatric Assoc., Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine, and College of Physicians of Philadelphia; and a member of the American College of Psychiatrists and Society of Professors of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry.