Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior

Dr. Candice Espinoza received her medical degree from The University of New Mexico School of Medicine in 2019 where she obtained a Public Health Certificate. Dr. Espinoza completed general psychiatry residency training at The Johns Hopkins University in 2023, where she was awarded the Frank L. Coulson, Jr. Award for Clinical Excellence. During residency, she collaborated with mentors to conduct a scoping review to aide in the development of a school-based education program focused on the recognition and management of anxiety in middle school students. Following residency, Dr. Espinoza was selected to serve as an American Psychiatric Association Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellow and was accepted into the Brown NIMH R-25 Research Training Program working with Dr. Anthony Spirito. Throughout fellowship, Dr. Espinoza collaborated with mentors on several research projects, one of which aimed to gain insight into understanding and formally assessing suicidal thoughts and behaviors in preteen children and another focusing on the examination of stressors, sources of support, and parental monitoring among caregivers of youth in the juvenile diversion program. She also authored a Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter article.  Upon fellowship completion, Dr. Espinoza will serve as an attending psychiatrist at a community mental health center. She would like to thank her family [wife, daughter, mother, father, brother, grandparents, aunt, uncle, in-laws] and friends for their unconditional love and unwavering support throughout her education. She also wishes to thank her clinical and research supervisors for the mentorship she received and her co-fellows for their camaraderie.