Dr. Lina Augius is a board certified adult psychiatrist who joins FIU in June of 2024 as the Behavioral Health Director of NHELP, a clinician at the FIU Health Faculty practice and a teaching faculty to the college of medicine. She has over fifteen years of post-graduate experience with a variety of clinical experiences from public, private and academic settings.
She completed her MD and MPH at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Adult Residency training at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. She is a diplomate of the American Board of Integrative Health and Medicine since 2010.
Her clinical work has included working for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation as a staff Psychiatrist, maintaining a private practice in Santa Monica and later on with the Mind Health Institute in Beverly Hills. In addition to this, she focused on university environments, where she was the psychiatrist to the University of Southern California's (USC) Health Sciences graduate students and also staff psychiatrist to California State University, Northridge. In 2017 she joined the USC Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health as Assisant Clinical Professor.
From the years of 2017 to 2022 she lead the psychiatric team for both the Health Sciences and University Park USC campuses, ultimately as Director of Psychiatric Services. She oversaw the clinical services for the USC Student Health Center Psychiatrists, as well as functioning as the Medical Director of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Services (PBHS) an insurance based clinic that provided comprehensive services to the student population. The clinic faculty included medical doctors, psychologists, LMFT and LCSW therapists, as well as case management. She helped to create two residency electives training PGY4's in these two clinical settings. She facilitated referrals to neuromodulation for treatment resistant depression and functioned as a liaison for the Addiction Medicine Clinic, The Haven at the USC campus. She was tasked with harmonizing policies and practices amongst various clinical settings at the university. During COVID 19 she quickly converted services to telemedicine which dramatically improved access to mental health services.
In addition to these roles, she joined OC Progressive Recovery, a medical group providing Emergency Psychiatry and C&L services to St. Joseph Hospital in Orange California. From 2017 to 2024 she provided volumes of ER consultations, working alongside nursing teams, psychiatric nurse practitioners and was involved with teaching rotating students.
She is collaborative in her approach, valueing the perspectives of other professionials and providing psychoeducation to the patient and colleagues when possible. She recently saw telemedicine patients with the group practice, Brainpower Wellness Institute, as a clinician and consultative psychiatrist to psychiatric nurse practioners. She is also a consultative psychiatrist with Brightside Mental Health, a large telemedicine platform that was named best online therapy by Forbes magazine. This past year she worked as a contract psychiatrist for Contra Costa Health, California, treating severe mental illness in person and virtually prior to moving to southern Florida.
Her clinical interests include working with transitional age youth, women's health issues, mood disorders, anxiety disorders, wellness. She values integrated care and collaboration. She is a passionate educator, clinician and advocate for cultural competence.
research interests
Transitional age youth Women's health Cultural psychiatry Pharmacogenetic Testing
