Emily Troyer, M.D.
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Track Director

Dr. Emily (Ema) Troyer is an Associate Clinical Professor in the UCSD Department of Psychiatry, where she serves as Director of the Community Psychiatry Research Center (CPRC) and as the Community Psychiatry Track Director for the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship. She is also a supervising psychiatrist in UCSD’s General Psychiatry Residency Program and post-graduate Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Fellowship Programs. Dr. Troyer grew up in rural areas of Ohio and went to the University of Akron for undergraduate studies, where she majored in Psychology and participated in behavioral neuroscience research. She attended medical school at the University of Toledo, where she was first introduced to community/public-sector psychiatry, and where she engaged in research projects examining models of culturally specific mental health services and educational outreach to youth. Dr. Troyer completed her general psychiatry residency at the University of Illinois at Chicago, a state university hospital system dedicated to serving vulnerable and marginalized communities, where she served as Chief Resident. She completed her child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at UCSD, where she also served as Chief Fellow, and where she became involved in research leveraging developmental cohort study data, to understand the impact of early life exposures, such as pediatric traumatic brain injury, on subsequent risk for psychiatric illness. Dr. Troyer also completed a NIMH T32 post-doctoral fellowship in psychoneuroimmunology research, where she focused on understanding immune-brain associations in childhood psychopathology. In her current position, Dr. Troyer enjoys providing clinical services across the lifespan, with UCSD’s community-based partner sites including Federally Qualified Health Centers and San Diego County-contracted subspecialty mental health programs. Under her direction, the Community Psychiatry Research Center is focused on understanding social drivers of mental health, with an emphasis on principles of community-based participatory research. She is passionate about building and maintaining academic-community partnerships, as well as mentoring multidisciplinary trainees in these settings, to develop the future workforce of clinician-scholars in community-based, public-sector systems of care.

Hilary Gould, Ph.D.
Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry

Hilary M Gould, PhD is Health Sciences Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). She received her doctorate from the University of California, Los Angeles and attended an APA accredited respecialization program in clinical psychology at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. She completed an internship and postdoctoral fellowship at the UCSD/Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System. Her area of professional interest include interdisciplinary training and education, development and lifespan, and outcome-based care. She currently oversees the training and clinical supervision of psychotherapy at community sites. Additionally, she is involved in research, contracts, and project development within the Community Psychiatry Program. She has published several articles and book chapters, and presented at local, national, and international conferences and trainings.

Kevo Rivera, M.D.
Child and Adolescent & Psychiatry Track Faculty  

Dr. Kevo Rivera (accepts all pronouns) is a queer, genderfree, Filipinx-American child of once-undocumented immigrants. They were born and raised in Los Angeles and received their BS in Biology at Pepperdine University. Before their career in medicine, they worked as a community organizer and speaker in the nonprofit social justice sector.  After graduating from the University of Iowa (UI) Carver College of Medicine with a Global Health Distinction, Dr. Rivera completed their psychiatry residency and child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at the UI Hospitals & Clinics. While in training, they served as co-chair of the Department of Psychiatry Diversity Committee, as councilor of the Iowa Psychiatric Physicians Society, and as a Diversity Leadership Fellow with the American Psychiatric Association (APA). They also served on Iowa City’s Ad Hoc Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the board of the ACLU of Iowa. For their achievements in advocacy and leadership, they were recognized with the UI Health Care Excellence in Clinical Teaching Award and the UI Health Care Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Leadership Award. Dr. Rivera currently serves as representative to the APA Assembly on behalf of the Association of LGBTQ+ Psychiatrists.  Dr. Rivera joins the faculty of UCSD’s Community Psychiatry Program after graduating from Columbia University’s Public Psychiatry Fellowship, during which they worked as an outpatient child psychiatrist at the New York City Children’s Center, a state-run behavioral health facility serving youth and their families facing complex social challenges. They enjoy theatre, Survivor, comic books, Dungeons and Dragons, and queer art.

Huma Baqir, M.D.
Child and Adolescent & Psychiatry Track Faculty 

Dr. Huma Baqir was born and raised in Karachi, Pakistan. She received her doctoral degree from Aga Khan University in 2017. Shortly after, she moved to the US to complete her general psychiatry residency training from University at Buffalo, where she stayed for another two years to complete her child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship. During this time, she won several awards pertaining to leadership, her academic performance and endeavors in teaching and education. Dr. Baqir was selected as a Resident/Trainee Member in the Transitional Age Youth and College Mental Health Committee at the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP), and was the recipient of the AACAP John E. Schowalter, MD, Educational Outreach Program Award and the American Psychiatric Association Diversity Leadership Fellowship. She especially enjoys working with adolescents and young adults, and has long been curious about the intersection between psychiatry and the arts, including storytelling in medical education. In her spare time, Dr. Baqir likes to hike, write poetry and spend time with her family.

Chetan Bhat , M.D.
Child and Adolescent & Psychiatry Track Faculty

Chetan Bhat completed medical school at Case Western Reserve University before returning to his hometown for residency at Loma Linda University. He proceeded to complete a fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry here at UC San Diego. Professionally, his interests include medical education, integration of mental health with primary care, consult-liaison psychiatry, and use of media within psychiatry. He has received national honors for medical education including the Child PRITE fellowship by the American College of Psychiatrists and Resident Psychiatric Educator Award from the Association of Academic Psychiatry. In his free time, he enjoys playing fantasy sports, stand-up comedy, board games, and trying new restaurants

James “Harrison” Collins, M.D.
Child and Adolescent & Psychiatry Track Faculty

Dr. James “Harrison” Collins is a general and child and adolescent psychiatrist. He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and obtained a Master’s and Medical Degree at the University of South Florida prior to completing residency at Kaweah Health, where he served in a Chief Resident-adjacent role. He completed the community-track child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at UCSD prior to joining faculty in 2025. He is a recipient of the prestigious Gold Humanism Honor Society Award, and has served LGBTQIA+ youth and families, youth advisory boards and free mental health clinics.