Our department's lauded Dr. Pritchard is an associate clinical professor of psychiatry and a clinical psychologist at the Banner – University Medicine Behavioral Health Pavilion outpatient clinic. She has received numerous awards for both her teaching and commitment to informing the community at large about mental health-related issues.
Her professional areas of interest include personality disorders, eating disorders, women’s issues, chronic depression, and clinical supervision. She frequently serves as a consultant and invited speaker in these areas. Dr. Pritchard is also an operatic soprano!
Why she chose this career:
“I’ve always enjoyed puzzles and figuring out how things fit together to work successfully. Life events presented me with the ultimate challenge of understanding – or at least attempting to – how the inner facets of people fit together without obstacles in order to assist them in functioning optimally.”
What continues to inspire her:
“Teaching and supervising psychiatry residents to assist them on their trajectory to becoming independent practitioners is a way of applying what I have learned over time in a kind of pyramid effect, a way of impacting not only them but whomever they encounter, whether patients or their own future trainees, staff, and employees. What could be more inspiring than that?!”
Recent awards/accomplishments:
- Academic Teaching Award from the PGY-4 Class, 2024-25
- Academic Teaching Award from the PGY-3 Class, 2024-25
- Co-Director, founding member, and soprano with Passion Project: Opera!, a nonprofit chamber opera company in Tucson, AZ.