Sandra Hyams is a psychiatric nurse practitioner and received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania.  Following nursing school, she worked at Cook Children’s for several years and then graduated from Vanderbilt University in 2016 after obtaining her Master of Science as a Family Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner. She has worked with adolescents with substance use and mental health at University of Minnesota, as well as at Mayo Clinic in Rochester with children and adults inpatient and on the consult service. 

Sandra presently works at Acclaim Multi-Specialty Group at John Perter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas in outpatient psychiatry clinic for children and adolescents.  She also works within the state funded program Texas Child Mental Health Care Consortium (TCMHCC) which increases mental health access and care to children. She provides telephonic consultation to primary care providers regarding diagnoses, medications, and treatment for children with mental health. Additionally, she works within a team to provide medication and therapeutic treatment to children with mental health referred directly from schools. 

Sandra is a co-editor for the Carlat Psychiatry newsletter and enjoys training physician assistant and nurse practitioner students. She is currently studying at UTMB part time to obtain her PhD in nursing.