Author: Linda Y. Evans

Linda Y. Evans, MD, FAPA, is Board-certified in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and has worked in the behavioral health field for 30 years. She was an Army officer for 16 years and a civilian working for the military for 10 years. She served as a psychiatrist for servicemembers and their families on military posts around the world. She is a former associate professor for the Augusta University’s Medical College of GA child psychiatry fellowship training program. Upon leaving the military, she worked in many different areas of psychiatry to include private practice, inpatient child and adult psychiatry, telepsychiatry, and outpatient addiction treatment. She worked part-time in rural areas in the community mental health setting. She served as physician for the regional developmental disabilities department where she developed a special interest in mental health of adults and children with autism and other developmental disabilities, a very underserved population. She is a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, and member of the Georgia Psychiatric Physicians’ Association and American Academy of Child and Adolescent psychiatry