
Jason Garvin, DO
Director of Psychiatric Services
Biography
Dr. Jason Garvin is the director of Psychiatric Services for McLean OCDI Houston, and an assistant professor of psychiatry at the Menninger Department of Psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine. He is double board-certified in adult psychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry. Additionally, he has provided intensive psychotherapy and medication management for adults, adolescents, and children for over 12 years.
Dr. Garvin graduated from the Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences medical school and completed his psychiatry residency and fellowship training at the Menninger Department of Psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine. As a psychiatry resident, he completed a three-month rotation on the inpatient unit at the Menninger OCD Treatment Program in 2001 in Topeka, Kansas. Since then, he has maintained a strong interest in OCD and other anxiety disorders, and continues to provide evidence-based collaborative care and treatment with community therapists. In his role at McLean OCDI Houston, he brings a strong understanding of how medications for OCD and anxiety disorders are best utilized to help make exposure and response prevention (ERP) therapy as effective as possible.
Education & Training
- 1999 DO, Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences
- 1999-2000 Psychiatry Internship, University of Iowa
- 2000-2001 Psychiatry Residency, The Menninger Clinic
- 2001-2003 Psychiatry Residency, Baylor College of Medicine
- 2003-2005 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship, Baylor College of Medicine
- 2001 Physician License, Texas Medical Board
- 2005, 2015 Psychiatry, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
- 2006, 2015 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology