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About The Speaker

Dr. Hisla Bates, MD is a board-certified, Harvard trained Pediatric and Adult psychiatrist with over 20 years of experience in the diagnosis and treatment of severe mental illness and managed care. Dr. Bates has had additional training in Primary Care Internal Medicine at Yale School of Medicine. Her general psychiatry training was completed at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. She completed her Child and Adolescent psychiatry Fellowship at Harvard Medical School’s Massachusetts General Hospital program in the Department of Psychiatry. 

Dr. Bates has studied with Tal Ben Sharar, PhD and is certified in Positive Psychology from the Whole Being Institute. She has an integrative and holistic approach to the treatment of mental illness. She uses tools in Mindfulness, Positive Psychology, and the expressive and creative arts working with children and adults. Dr. Bates is the Co-Chair of the Art Committee for the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP). She is a Parsons School of design graduate in fashion design, and an artist and printmaker who enjoys photography and filmmaking as well. She utilizes all of her skills in her practice as a psychiatrist and a coach.