Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Residency:  Current Faculty

The faculty is a diverse group of individuals keenly interested in training competent child and adolescent psychiatrists to help meet the mental health needs of children, adolescents, and their families. The faculty place a high value on a collaborative educational environment in which trainees and supervisors work together to provide quality care and to remain at the forefront of the evolving science and clinical practice of child and adolescent psychiatry. Included among the faculty are two former training directors and three Triple Board Program graduates. Please refer to the following list of faculty, noting their clinical and/or research interests as well as the training programs from which they graduated.

Chief of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry:

Robert Sahl, M.D.
Adolescence, developmental disorders/mental retardation/autism
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic/University of Pittsburgh

 

Acting Training Director:

Robert Sahl, M.D.
Adolescence, developmental disorders/mental retardation/autism
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic/University of Pittsburgh

Core Faculty:

Eric D. Cohen, M.D.
Inpatient treatment, ADHD, anxiety disorders
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic/University of Pittsburgh

John H. Cordes, M.D.
Partial hospital, intensive outpatient treatment
Yale University/Yale Child Study Center, New Haven, CT*

Mary Butteweg Gratton, Ph.D., LCSW
Play therapy, infant-parent psychotherapy
Smith College School for Social Work (Ph.D.)

Nora Hanna, M.D., Site Director Outpatient Clinic, Acting Assistant Training Director
School psychiatry, community psychiatry
Alton Ochsner Medical Fdn./Tulane Medical Center

Mirela Loftus, M.D.
Inpatient treatment, ADHD, psychopharmocology
University of Connecticut/ Institute of Living/Hartford Hospital

Lynn Mangini, M.D.
Consultation liaison, alternative treatment strategies
University of New Mexico Health Center

Lisa Namerow, M.D. (former Training Director)
Consultation-liaison, infant psychiatry, attachment disorders
Mount Sinai Medical Center, NY (Triple Board Program)

Jyotsna S. Ranga, M.D.
School psychiatry, attachment disorders/psychobiology
University of Missouri-Columbia Hospitals

Francisco Ripepi, M.D.
Developmental disorders, therapeutic school, outpatient
Mount Sinai School of Medicine- Elmhurst/State University of New York

Barbara Rzepski, Ph.D.
Consultation-liaison, chronic pain, CBT of anxiety disorders
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Ph.D.)

Michael Stevens, Ph.D.
Director, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Research, IOL/HH
University of Connecticut, Storrs (Ph.D.)

Voluntary Faculty of Distinction:

James Black, M.D.
School & forensic consultation, private practice
Ohio State University/University of Cincinnati

Dianne Friedman, Ph.D., L.C.S.W.
Family therapy, parent & couples therapy
Smith College School for Social Work (Ph.D.)

Lisa Karabelnik, M.D.
Psychobiology, psychopharmacology, outpatient practice
Mount Sinai Medical Center, NY (Triple Board Program)

Pamela Kurth-Botnick, M.D.
Juvenile justice, outpatient psychiatry
Brown University School of Medicine, RI (Triple Board Program)

Craig Martin, M.D.
Juvenile Justice
University of Maryland/Sheppard Pratt

Kenneth Robson, M.D. (former Training Director)
Forensics, psychotherapy
Massachusetts Mental Health Center/Beth Israel Hospital

Carlos Salguero, M.D.
Cultural and community psychiatry
University of Michigan

 

*Training programs of faculty are listed. If two programs are named, the General Psychiatry program is listed first followed by the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry program.

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