Carol A. Tamminga MD

Carol Tamminga, M.D., holds the Lou and Ellen McGinley Distinguished Chair and the McKenzie Chair in Psychiatry at UT Southwestern. She is the Chair of UT Southwestern’s Department of Psychiatry and Chief of the Translational Neuroscience Division in Schizophrenia.

Dr. Tamminga received her M.D. degree from Vanderbilt University and completed residency training in psychiatry at the University of Chicago. She served on the University of Chicago faculty from 1975 to 1979 and moved to the National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke for training in neurology in 1978. After joining the faculty at the University of Maryland Medical School in 1979, she taught, conducted research, and performed clinical care there until joining the faculty at UT Southwestern Medical Center in 2003.