Dr. Austin Hall will be participating in the conversation around Transitions and Continuity of Care during the 45th Legislative Breakfast on Mental Health.

Austin Hall, MD is Medical Director for the University of North Carolina’s Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health and Director of Clinical Informatics for UNC’s Department of Psychiatry.

Prior to joining UNC in 2015, Dr. Hall worked in other community mental health settings in North Carolina for 12 years as part of Assertive Community Treatment teams in both urban and rural communities.

His teaching responsibilities at UNC include resident and medical student education in the treatment of psychotic disorders, principles of integrated treatment for co-occurring severe mental illness and substance use, and applications of new technologies to mental health care.

Additional areas of interest include team-based care delivery, expansion of access to care, and integration of behavioral and physical health care.