Melanie Chung-Sherman, DSW, LCSW-S, CEDS

Dr. Melanie (JaeHee) Chung-Sherman, DSW, LCSW-S, CEDS (she/her/yeoja) is a licensed clinical social worker and TSBSWE-Board-approved clinical supervisor through the State of Texas. She also holds a clinical social work license in Louisiana. She is the Director of the Post-Graduate Clinical Social Work Fellowship Program at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UTSW) in partnership with Dallas Children's Medical Center and Parkland Hospital. She is also the Clinical Therapist Lead for UTSW’s Multidisciplinary Outpatient Psychiatry Clinic (MSOC), supervising Master-level clinicians (LCSW, LPC, and LMFT), MSW interns, and clinical social work fellows within a clinic that provides mental health services for over 11,000 patients in the North Texas area (Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex and beyond). She is part of UTSW's Outpatient Eating Disorder clinical team and helps facilitate NIH-funded eating disorder psychoeducational and art therapy groups to enhance social engagement in recovery for adults.

She received her Doctor of Social Work specializing in clinical practice from The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, as the first Asian-Pacific Islander to complete the DSW program. She speaks internationally, nationally, and state-wide regarding Asian-Pacific Islander mental health, severe mental illness, transracial adoption dynamics, eating disorders, suicide prevention within marginalized populations, and inclusive mental health care to combat mental health stigma, address power-based violence, and deconstruct structural oppression. Her passion is teaching the next generation of social work leaders--and breaking barriers so that everyone has an equitable seat at the table. She looks forward to an exceptional UA Fall 2024--Roll Tide!