Episode #42- Child Behavioral Health

Child Behavioral Health is such an important subject to create awareness and educate yourself if you have or work with children. The Doctor Dads sit down with Dr. Osvaldo Gaytan and he schools us on behavioral health. He shares his holistic approach to address behavioral health for children and adults using all the tools available to make the changes needed over time.

Dr. Osvaldo Gaytan has been a child psychiatrist in El Paso for over 12 years. He is a graduated UTEP in 1989 with Honors and a Bachelors in Science , he received his MD/PhD in 1999 from The University of Texas Medical School at Houston with his PhD in Neuropharmacology, and completed his residency in Adult psychiatry in 2003 from Emory University in Atlanta. He also completed a three year research focused child fellowship from Emory in 2006.

He has been published as a first author in over 20 peer reviewed journals and done many presentations locally and nationally. Dr. Gaytan is committed to his patients and his community and is currently the Medical Director for the Child/Adolescent Unit at El Paso Behavioral Health. He has also helped to establish The El Paso Child Mental Health Fund over the last few years as an effort to improve the mental health care of our children in the community.