Lina Augius, M.D., MPH

Dr. Lina Augius is the director of psychiatry and behavioral health for our Green Family Foundation Neighborhood Health Education Learning Program, also known as NeighborhoodHELP. She also provides clinical psychiatric services to the general public at the FIU Health Faculty Group Practice on FIU’s main campus.

Dr. Augius has nearly two decades of clinical experience in academic, public, and private settings. As a clinician, she combines her expertise in psychopharmacology with integrative health practices to optimize treatment outcomes. As a clinician-educator, she focuses on transitional age youth, higher education, and wellness in learning environments.

Before joining FIU, Dr. Augius served as the director of student psychiatric services at the University of Southern California and medical director of a multidisciplinary team that provided comprehensive outpatient insurance-based care to the student population.

Board certifications: psychiatry and neurology, integrative holistic medicine

Areas of Interest

Transitional age youth, women's mental health, cultural psychiatry, integrative psychiatry and collaborative care

Education

Residency, Adult Psychiatry, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
M.P.H., Epidemiology, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL
M.D., University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL
B.S., Cell and Structural Biology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL

Awards

Chicago Schweitzer Fellows Program, Health and Medicine Policy Research Group, 1999-2000
Nominee, Etz Chaim Milgrom Tree of Life Award of Compassionate Care, Keck Medicine of USC, 2022