Roshni Koli, MD

Roshni Koli, MD, is a board-certified child, adolescent and adult psychiatrist and clinical adjunct faculty member within the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School. Prior to joining the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute, she served as the inaugural medical director of the pediatric mental health service line for Dell Children’s Medical Center. Over the course of four years, she led the creation of the only service line within a children’s hospital in the state of Texas to provide the full continuum of pediatric mental health care, including a 24-bed inpatient unit, a newly developed Partial Hospitalization Program, an Intensive Outpatient Program, a comprehensive Consultation-Liaison Service, and general outpatient and embedded behavioral health specialty clinics.

In her role at the Meadows Institute, Dr. Koli serves as the top decision-maker on all things medical. She anchors the executive team’s activities in contemporary, innovative and evidence-based medical knowledge, with a special emphasis on children, youth and families. She oversees all medically focused policy and practice guidance developed at the Meadows Institute, working closely with physicians and other clinicians across the organization. She brings decades of practical experience and deep caring for people and families affected by mental illness.

Previously, Dr. Koli served as the co-section chief and medical director of Kapiolan’i Behavioral Health Services, where she supervised a team of psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers and a psychiatric nurse practitioner in Honolulu. Recognizing the workforce shortage in child and adolescent psychiatry, she has served as an educator and mentor for medical students, psychiatry residents, pediatric residents and child and adolescent psychiatry fellows.

Dr. Koli’s passion is focused on the development of collaborative relationships with primary care and specialty care colleagues to comprehensively address the mental and behavioral health needs of children and adults. In partnership with behavioral health and primary care colleagues, she has created innovative strategies to address the mental health crisis. Throughout her 15-year career in psychiatry, she has worked to achieve a goal of reducing mental health stigma, increasing access to mental health care and striving to ensure that there is no difference between physical and mental health care for all children.