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Christina M. Bourne, MD, MPH

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Assistant Clinical Professor, Psychiatry

Dr. Bourne was born and raised in Tucson, Arizona, and is thrilled to be back in the Sonoran Desert practicing medicine. She deeply believes in offering care to her community, and she hopes to meet patients wherever they are, without judgment, regardless of circumstance. She is seeing hospitalized patients with substance use disorders. She practices outpatient addiction medicine and treats psychiatry patients at the Whole Health Clinic. She specializes in caring for pregnant people with substance use disorders.

She has completed multiple fellowships related to reproductive justice and advancing the role of family physicians in expanding abortion access. Her past clinical work has focused on abortion access for those living in the Midwest and South, providing mental health and primary health care for systemically marginalized populations, creating affirmative spaces for gender-diverse people across the lifespan, and caring for pregnant people with substance use disorders and severe persistent mental illnesses.

Degrees

  • MD: University of Kansas School of Medicine, Wichita, Kansas, 2016
  • MPH: Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, 2011
  • BS: Nutrition, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, 2008
Residency
Family Medicine and Psychiatry, University of California, Davis, 2021
Board Certifications
Addiction Medicine, American Board of Preventive Medicine, 2024
Family Medicine, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, 2022
Research Interests

quality improvement and quality assurance in psychiatry