Aparna Vuppala

Aparna Vuppala, MD, is board-certified in both general psychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry and has practiced in North Alabama for over two decades. She brings sustained clinical experience to the region and provides specialized psychiatric care for young patients.

Her services include outpatient diagnostic evaluations, medication management, individual psychotherapy, behavior management techniques, parent education, play therapy, and family therapy for children and adolescents aged 2 to 20. Her work spans common and complex pediatric mental health concerns across developmental stages.

She is the medical director of SPEAK, the suicide prevention program of the Huntsville Hospital Foundation, and serves as clinical assistant professor for the UAB School of Medicine's Department of Psychiatry (Huntsville Campus) and clinical faculty at VCOM and ACOM Schools of Osteopathic Medicine, where she serves as a preceptor for medical students. She emphasizes the importance of working closely with other mental health professionals and physicians to coordinate treatment and received the 'Exemplary Psychiatrist Award' from the National Association of Mental Illness (NAMI) of Huntsville in 2007.