PRIMARY FACULTY

Louis Kraus, M.D.
Associate Professor and Section Chief, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Interests include Autistic disorder, forensic psychiatry, and school consultation.

Adrienne Adams, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Fellowship Program Director, and Director Mood Disorders Clinic. Interests include anxiety disorders and mood disorders.

David Anderson, PhD.
Assistant Professor of Psychology and Social Services, Assistant Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Interests include long term therapeutic interventions, therapeutic schools, psychological assessment issues, group therapy.

Marta Banegas, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Interests include psychotic disorders, psychopharmacology, mood disorders .

Carlos Barrios, M.D.
Assistant Professor, Director of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Clinic and Director of Pediatic Consulation Liaison Service. Interests include an integrated approach to treatment using various therapies, medication management and community outreach programs.

Ozlem Dubauskas, M.D.
Assistant Professor, Director of Fellow Inpatient Education and Director of Child Psychiatry Inpatient Unit. Interests include Anxiety Disorders, Mood Disorders, Psychosis, ADHD, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders and Disruptive Behavior Disorders.

Peter M. Fink, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. Interests include forensic psychiatry, psychopharmacology, school consultation.

Hollie Sobel, PhD.
Assistant Professor of Psychology and Social Services, Assistant Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Interests include school consultation, effect of social support on child functioning, group therapy.

Elisa Bell, MD
Instructor, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Interests include community psychiatry, consultation, foster care, conduct disorders.

Peter Heydemann, M.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatric Neurology and supervisor for pediatric neurology outpatient clinic. Interests include seizure disorders, Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder, movement disorders.

Paul Holinger, MD
Professor of Psychiatry, Rush Medical College, supervisor and didactic instructor. Interests include psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, maternal-infant bonding, adolescent suicide, early verbalization and affect.

William McMiller, M.D.
Instructor, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Interests include school consultation, cultural competence, community psychiatry.

Reneé Mehlinger, M.D.
Assistant Professor, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Interests include, school consultation, multicultural issues in psychiatry, affective disorders, anxiety disorders, psychopharmacology.

Amer Smajkic, M.D.
Instructor and Adjunct Attending on the child psychiatry inpatient unit. Interests include child and adolescent depression, post traumatic stress disorders in children and adolescents and research on the treatement of adolescent depression with Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, psychopharmacology and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.

Craigan Usher, M.D.
Instructor and Adjunct Attending of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Interests include child and adolescent psychotherapy, psychopharmacology, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Anxiety Disorders, and Mood Disorders.

Alejandro Mora, LCSW