About

Erin Malloy, MD is Professor and Vice Chair for Faculty Development in the Department of Psychiatry. Since joining the faculty in 1998, Dr. Malloy has served many clinical, teaching, and leadership roles throughout her career. Her clinical expertise is in child and adolescent psychiatry, addictions, and maternal and family mental health. She is board certified in Psychiatry and in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry through the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, and a Distinguished Life Fellow in the American Psychiatric Association. Dr. Malloy’s clinical experience has ranged from leadership in inpatient child and adolescent psychiatry services locally and nationally to consultative work in both inpatient and outpatient settings, to outpatient psychopharmacology and psychotherapy.

Dr. Malloy’s commitment to developing colleagues as all stages of their careers is clear by her extensive local and national experience in medical education, mentoring, and faculty development. She has taught and led several courses at the UNC School of Medicine and played an integral role in building the SOM advising program. She teaches in the department of Social Medicine and leads the preclinical behavioral medicine course in the medical school’s preclinical curriculum. Dr. Malloy has been honored by several teaching awards through the SOM as well as the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the American Psychiatric Association. She has held national leadership roles in the Association of Directors of Medical Student Education in Psychiatry (ADMSEP), including serving as its President in 2022-23. Her dedication to mentoring has grown over the past decade through prior work as Director of the Center for Faculty Excellence at UNC and and NSF grant that enabled development of faculty mentor training, peer mentoring models. She has gained experience in building mentoring skills and programs in the department, the University, and beyond. Her work in supporting faculty continues to grow, expanding into her current role in the department and joining the SOM Faculty Affairs and Leadership Development office in 2025 as Associate Director for Faculty Affairs & Advancement.

In addition to the study of innovations in mentoring, medical education and faculty development, Dr. Malloy’s research interests have included the impacts of treatment maternal depression on child mental health.