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Dr. McCarron has numerous publications in the areas of medical education, unexplained physical complaints; pain management; depression and anxiety in the primary care setting; preventive medicine; medical / psychiatric cross-disciplinary education and psychiatric integrated care. He served on the DSM 5-TR Advisory Board and has edited six textbooks on clinical education: three with a focus on teaching the essentials of primary care-based psychiatry, one on primary care-based pain management and the other two providing an innovative approach to teaching psychiatrists the essentials of preventive and collaborative care medicine. He spends much of his time consulting on how best to provide “cross disciplinary training” at the interface of primary care medicine, chronic pain management, psychiatry and integrative medicine, and is a national thought leader in psychiatric integrated education care. Dr. McCarron served as Co-Chair for a statewide project that supported the integration of primary care and behavioral health for several counties in California and currently serves as an appointed member of the California Department of Health Care Services Behavioral Health Advisory Committee.
Robert McCarron, D.O. completed a dual residency in internal medicine and psychiatry at Rush University and received board certification in psychiatry, psychosomatic medicine and internal medicine. While on faculty at the University of California, Davis and Irvine Schools of Medicine, he started the only two California based combined internal medicine / psychiatry residency programs. In these roles, he received grant support to create and implement a “Med Psych” curriculum that can be used in the public mental health system by psychiatry residency training programs. Dr. McCarron is the Founding Director for the UC Irvine Train New Trainers (TNT) Primary Care Psychiatry (PCP) Fellowship and the TNT PC Training and Education in Addiction Medicine (TEAM) Fellowship, which are one-year programs designed to train primary care providers in the essentials of adult psychiatry, pediatric psychiatry and SUD behavioral health. Dr. McCarron also serves as Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine and Associate Dean, Continuing Medical Education at the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine. He is also Director of Education for the UCI Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute. He serves on the ACGME Residency Review Committee for Psychiatry and is Medical Director for Mind OC. Dr. McCarron is a California National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Board Member.