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Child Psychiatry Fellowship, Program Director
Associate Professor, Psychiatry

Faculty (Course and Rotation Directors)

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Assistant Professor
Area of Expertise: Cultural Psychiatry; Refugee/Immigrant/New American mental health; Medical Education
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Chairperson, Psychiatry
Professor, Pediatrics
Professor, Psychological Science

Area of Expertise: Dysregulation; Pediatric bipolar disorders; Latent variable modeling; Suicide prevention

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Assistant Professor
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Associate Professor, Neurology

Area of Expertise: Behavioral neurology; Epilepsy; Neonatal neurology

Leslie Conroy, MD

Assistant Professor, Clinical Psychiatry
Medical Director, Howard Center Child Youth and Family Services
Medical Director, Northeast Family Services

Area of Expertise: Community psychiatry; Autism

William Copeland, PhD

Professor
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Associate Professor, Psychiatry
Area of Expertise: Trauma; Autism
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Professor, Psychiatry

Areas of expertise: ADHD; Consultation with schools; Multi-systemic therapy

David Fassler, MD

Clinical Professor, Psychiatry
Director, Otter Creek Associates
Trustee At Large, American Psychiatric Association

Area of Expertise: Advocacy; Media relations; Public policy in child mental health

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Associate Professor, Psychiatry
Associate Professor, Pediatrics

Area of Expertise: Perinatal psychiatry; Dysregulation

Valerie Harder, PhD

Professor, Psychiatry
Professor, Psychology

Area of Expertise: Biostatistics; Global Mental Health

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Assistant Professor

Area of Expertise: ADHD; Autism; Irritability; OCD; Forensic Psychiatry

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Associate Professor
Area of Expertise: Autism; Collaborative Care

Masha Ivanova, PhD

Associate Professor, Psychiatry
Associate Professor, Psychology

Area of Expertise: Psychotherapy; Empirically based assessment; Multicultural aspects of psychiatry; Family cohesion

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Peter Jackson, MD

Associate Professor, Psychiatry
Associate Professor, Psychology

Area of Expertise: Inpatient child psychiatry

Cynthia LaRiviere, PhD

Clinical Assistant Professor, Psychiatry
Area of Expertise: School consultation; Psychotherapy
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Clinical Associate Professor, Psychiatry
Clinical Associate Professor, Pediatrics
Chief Psychologist, Psychological Services, UVM Medical Center

Area of Expertise: Psychosomatics; Psychotherapy

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Assistant Professor, Psychiatry
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics

Area of Expertise: Consult-Liaison; education

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Associate Professor, Psychiatry
Associate Professor, Pediatrics

Area of Expertise: Child development; conduct disorder

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Associate Professor
Director, Division of Child Psychiatry

Area of Expertise: Medical Humanities; Medical Education; Narrative Medicine; General Child Psychiatry

Dhruv Shah, DO

Assistant Professor
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Professor, Psychiatry

Areas of expertise: Developmental Disorders; Collaboration with primary care; Trauma

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Program Director, Child Psychiatry Fellowship
Associate Professor, Psychiatry
Associate Professor, Pediatrics

Area of Expertise: Education; Trauma

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James Tallmadge, PhD

Clinical Assistant Professor, Psychiatry

Area of Expertise: Psychotherapy; School consultation; Psychoeducational assessment

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Assistant Professor
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