Speaker's Profile

Dr. Hani Talebi is the Chief Clinical Officer and Senior Vice President of Health Systems Integration at the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute. Prior to joining Meadows, Dr. Talebi was the Director of Pediatric Psychology at Dell Children’s Medical Center in Austin, Texas. A dually licensed psychologist and licensed specialist in school psychology, Dr. Talebi is an affiliate faculty member in the UT Austin Dell Medical School Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and courtesy affiliate faculty in the Department of Pediatrics. Additionally, he is the incoming president of the Texas Psychological Association.

In his role at the Meadows Institute, Dr. Talebi’s work focuses on advancing collaborative care and measurement-based care in primary care and health system settings. With more than 20 years of clinical experience, he has served in a variety of roles including Director of Psychological Services at Del Valle Independent School District, Director of Clinical Programming in various community mental health centers, and as a clinical/consultative leader in the private sector. Dr. Talebi’s administrative efforts at the juncture of the medical and mental health models have resulted in innovative program development, various quality improvement initiatives and fiscally sustainable service provision platforms across milieus.