Tessa Chesher BIO

Dr. Tessa Chesher is a clinical professor at Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.  She is dually board-certified in general psychiatry as well as child and adolescent psychiatry.  She received her general psychiatry training at the University of Oklahoma School of Community Medicine and her child and adolescent psychiatry training at Tulane University School of Medicine where she also completed a Harris Fellowship in Infant and Early Childhood Psychiatry. Dr. Chesher's professional interests include infant and early childhood mental health, early childhood trauma, and pediatric consultation-liaison psychiatry.Dr. Chesher collaborates with the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health, the Oklahoma State Department of Health, and community mental health agencies to provide infant mental health consultation and education across the state of Oklahoma.