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Katherine Cowan, M.D. is Associate Professor at the UT-Houston Medical School and also serves as an Attending Physician for General Adult Service at HCPC.
 
She received her undergraduate degree from Rice University in 1978 and her medical degree from the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston in 1982. Cowan completed her postgraduate training, including a general psychiatry internship and residency at the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio Affiliated Hospitals, from 1982-86. She is certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.
 
Cowan has had an active academic career, serving as assistant professor of medicine in the Department of Neuro-oncology-Division of Medicine at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center from 1991-93. She joined the UT-Houston faculty as assistant professor in 1986 and was promoted to the position of associate professor in the clinical track in 1995.
 
She is a member of several professional organizations, including the Texas Medical Foundation, the American Psychiatric Association, the Texas Society of Psychiatric Physicians (co-chair of the membership committee since 1994), Houston Psychiatric Society, and the Harris County Medical Society.
 
Additionally, she serves on a number of academic committees at UT-Houston, including the Medical School Admissions Committee, a post she has held since 1988 and which requires her to interview approximately 60 applicants and rank nearly 1,000 applicants each year.