Dr. Antoine Bailliard

Occupational Scientist, Duke School of Medicine

Antoine Bailliard, PhD, MS, OTR/L (he/him) is an Associate Professor of Occupational Therapy at the Duke University Occupational Therapy Doctorate Division. He earned an MS in Occupational Therapy and a PhD in Occupational Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research focuses on exploring how sensory processing patterns affect community integration and participation in meaningful occupations. His community-engaged scholarship focuses on improving the delivery of community-based services for adults with serious mental illness. His theoretical work focuses on expanding understandings of occupational justice to enhance inclusion and understandings of how sensory processing patterns affect meaningful participation.

Dr. Bailliard uses participatory research methods to partner with people with lived experience with mental illness to design and implement research activities and in the development of tools and programs that improve the health, wellbeing, meaningful participation, and community integration of persons with serious mental illness. His clinical experience spans from working in acute inpatient mental health, chronic inpatient mental health, and community-based mental health settings.

Currently, Dr. Bailliard is Co-Principal Investigator of a 5-year $2.4 million federal grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to design an innovative assertive outreach team to meet the needs of adults with serious mental illness who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. He is also a consultant for the Public Mental Health Partnership to end homelessness between the L.A. County Department of Mental Health and UCLA. He is a consultant and trainer for the Institute for Best Practices at the Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health at UNC-Chapel Hill.