Umar Latif, MD is a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology with triple board certification in General Psychiatry, Geriatric Psychiatry, and Addiction Medicine. He was selected as a George W. Bush Institute Scholar as part of the 2021 Stand-To Veteran Leadership program in service of improving veteran outcomes. Dr. Latif is the chair of The Headstrong Project’s Scientific Advisory Board, launching in 2025.
Dr. Latif currently serves as the National Medical Director of Help for Heroes, a multisite specialty program he helped design as co-founder, to meet the clinical needs of active-duty service members, veterans and first responders who are dealing with mental health and substance abuse issues. He also works as the Medical Director of Carrollton Springs Hospital and has a private practice at The Noesis Clinic: an adult and geriatric outpatient private practice that specializes in early detection of Alzheimer’s dementia and TMS (Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation).
Dr. Latif is a member of the Board of Directors of PsychArmor, a national nonprofit with the mission to transform the way our nation engages with the military and Veteran community through the power of education and training.
For a decade prior to this, Dr. Latif co-founded and served as the Medical Director of Freedom Care at UBH Denton, which he helped develop. Under his leadership, this program grew into a multi-location inpatient psychiatry program specializing in PTSD and dual diagnosis treatment for active-duty military members and veterans referred from 120 plus national & international installations.
His other professional roles in the past have included the position of Medical Director of the Telepsychiatry program at Dallas VA Medical Center, and faculty appointment as Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at UT Southwestern Medical Center.
Dr. Latif completed his residency training at Wayne State University in Michigan and fellowship training at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. He subsequently completed postgraduate training in Executive Healthcare Leadership at Cornell University and Effective Writing for Healthcare at Harvard Medical School.
