Osman Ali, M.D.

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Dr. Ali is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. He graduated with a BA in Neurobiology and Behavior from Cornell University and an MD from the Medical College of Ohio. He trained in Psychiatry at Cornell's Payne Whitney Clinic in Manhattan and completed the Public Psychiatry Fellowship at Columbia. He served as a Medical Director at NYU/Bellevue Hospital for five years and maintained a private practice in New York City. He came to Dallas to establish the Public and Community Psychiatry Fellowship at UTSW as the Training Director, and helped establish the Center for Education and Research at Metrocare as the Academic Medical Director. He is currently at the Dallas VA, serving veterans and teaching UTSW medical students.

Undergraduate

Cornell University (1994)

Medical School

University of Toledo (1999), Medicine

Featured Publications

Expression of Ethnic Prejudice in Focus Groups from Agencies Affected by the 9/11 Attacks on the World Trade Center

North CS, Gordon M, Kim Y-S, Wallace NE, Smith RP, Pfefferbaum B, Hong BA, Ali O, et al. Journal of Ethnic And Cultural Diversity in Social Work 2014 23 2

Public-academic partnerships: public psychiatry fellowships: a developing network of public-academic collaborations.

Le Melle S, Mangurian C, Ali OM, Giggie MA, Hadley T, Lewis ME, Runnels P, Sowers W, Steiner JL, Trujillo M, Ranz JM Psychiatr Serv 2012 Sep 63 9 851-4

The Imam's role in meeting the counseling needs of Muslim communities in the United States.

Ali OM, Milstein G, Marzuk PM Psychiatr Serv 2005 Feb 56 2 202-5

The imam and the mental health of muslims: Learning from research with other clergy

Ali OM Journal of Muslim Mental Health 2016 1 10 65-73

Mental Illness Recognition and Referral Practices Among Imams in the United States

Ali OM, Milstein G Journal of Muslim Mental Health 2012 6 2 http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.10381607.0006.202

Addressing Mental Health Issues Among American Muslims in the Military

Ali O, Abu-ras W, Ansari B, Hamid H, Haque S, Mahmood O, Muhammad A, Naeem H, Nadir A 2010 Institute for Social Policy and Understanding

 Featured Books

The Mental Health Response for Survivors of Mass Shooting Incidents. In Encyclopedia of Mental Health

Ali, Osman M., North, Carol S (2015). Philadelphia, Elsevier

Traditional Mental Health Coping and Help-Seeking. In Counseling Muslims: Handbook of Mental Health Issues and Interventions

Ali, Osman M, Aboul-Fotouh, Frieda (2012). New York, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group

Using the DSM-5 Cultural Formulation in the Islamophobic Context. In Islamophobia and Psychiatry

Ali, Osman M., North, Carol S. (2019). Switzerland, Springer

• Distinguished Fellow
  American Psychiatric Association (2020)

• American Association for Community Psychiatry (2004)
• American Association of Psychiatric Administrators, New York Regional Chapter (2007-2008)
• American Psychiatric Association (1995)
• Muslim Mental Health, Inc. (2004)
• North Texas Society of Psychiatric Physicians (2013)
• Texas Society of Psychiatric Physicians (2010)