Christina M. Bourne, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor, Psychiatry (Clinical Scholar Track)

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 hopes to meet patients wherever they are at, without judgment, regardless of circumstance. She is currently seeing hospitalized patients with substance use disorders, and outpatient addiction medicine and psychiatry patients at Whole Health Clinic. She specializes in caring for pregnant people with substance use disorders.

She completed multiple fellowships related to reproductive justice and the 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 healthcare 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.

Selected Publications: 

Bourne, C., & Kenkel, L. (2018). Treatment of depression in women. In M. Macaluso & J. Prescorn (Eds.), Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology (HEP): Antidepressants: Past, Present and Future. Springer.

Giroux, C., & Bourne, C. (2020). Group psychotherapy using video conferencing for survivors of trauma during a pandemic. Journal of Psychiatry Reform, 7(4).

Giroux, C., Hategan, A., & Bourne, C. (2020, February). Reproductive rights on the path of liberation: From deconstructing the concept of control in our society to emphasizing pro-attachment attitudes. Journal of Public Health.

Hardy-Fairbanks, A., & Bourne, C. (2020). “Abortion is not elective”: Midwest reproductive health care during a pandemic. Ms. Magazine.

Macaluso, M., Zackula, R., Bowman, C., Bourne, C., & Sweet, D. (2017). Residents perceive limited education on family planning and contraception for patients with severe and persistent mental illness. Academic Psychiatry, 1–8.

Degrees
  • MD: University of Kansas School of Medicine, Wichita, KS, 2016
  • MPH: Public Health, Washington University in St. Louis, MO, 2011
  • BS: Nutrition, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 2008
Residency
  • Family Medicine and Psychiatry, University of California, Davis, CA, 2016
Board Certifications
  • Addiction Medicine, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, 2024
  • Family Medicine, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, 2022