Lindsey Wilbanks, M.D.
Title: Assistant Professor
Firm/Company: University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
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Dr. Lindsey Wilbanks is the Program Director of the Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship and an Assistant Clinical Professor within the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) in Little Rock, Arkansas. She is a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a Past-President and former Legislative Representative for the Arkansas Psychiatric Society.
She received her medical school education, residency training in psychiatry, and forensic psychiatry fellowship training all at UAMS. She is a board-certified forensic psychiatrist practicing at the Arkansas State Hospital since 2016. She specifically works on and is the section chief of the teaching unit of the hospital, where she treats severely mentally ill patients, most of which are under forensic court orders, and where she educates medical students and psychiatry interns and residents.
She is passionate about teaching future doctors and future psychiatrists in the clinical and didactic setting regarding general and forensic topics in psychiatry. Dr. Wilbanks has won local awards in teaching and education such as the Robert F. Shannon Award, the Red Sash Award, and the Lloyd Rader Award. While she teaches on a variety of topics, her current areas of interest are in forensics and psychotic disorders.
With the help of residents with interests in forensic psychiatry, she created a podcast, Psychiatry and the Gavel, which covers landmark legal cases in forensic psychiatry and is available on Spotify.
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