Rachel R. Ballard, MD

Biography

  • Attending Physician, The Pritzker Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
  • Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and Pediatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

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Education and Background

  • MA, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine 2017
  • Fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio 2005-2007
  • Residency in General Psychiatry, University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio 2003-2005
  • Residency in Pediatrics, Children’s National Medical Center 1997-2000
  • MD, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio 1997
  • MA, University of Texas at Austin 1993
  • ScB, Brown University 1986

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