Virginia A. Brown, PhD
The University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School
Virginia A. Brown currently serves as an Assistant Professor in the Division of Community Engagement and Health Equity in the Department of Population Health, she holds a courtesy appointment in the Department of Psychiatry, and she serves as the Associate Director of Liberal Arts Honors (LAH) in the College of Liberal Arts. Her research work focuses on protecting the autonomy of persons living with serious mental illness using psychiatric advance directives (PADs). PADs are a communication tool that promotes patient autonomy and provides capacitated adults, who live with serious mental illnesses, the