Child/adolescent psychiatrists and pediatric neurologists entering this advanced specialty training program will receive cutting-edge training in the psychiatric and behavioral care of individuals with neurodevelopmental conditions and childhood onset neuropsychiatric disorders. This program is a one year clinically focused training experience that offers the opportunity to work with a breadth of complex patients under the close supervision of internationally renowned faculty in the field. Clinical care, professional development, leadership training, and academic growth will all take place within a warm, collegial, and interdisciplinary environment.
Trainees will learn to work with patients with conditions such as:
- Autism and intellectual disability
- Cerebral palsy and perinatal brain injury
- Pediatric catatonia
- Traumatic/acquired brain injury
- Pediatric functional neurological symptom disorder
- Neurodegenerative and neurometabolic diseases
- Neuroinflammatory diseases (e.g., anti-NMDA receptor encephalopathy)
- Epilepsy syndromes (e.g., Lennox Gastaut syndrome, Dravet syndromes)
- Neurogenetic syndromes (e.g., 22q11 deletion syndrome, Fragile X syndrome, tuberous sclerosis, neurofibromatosis)
- Down syndrome
Eligibility
Candidates must have successfully completed either child/adolescent psychiatry or pediatric neurology training at an ACGME-accredited program. Unfortunately, due to J1 visa work requirements, we are unable to accept candidates with this visa.
Salary and Benefits
Trainees are junior faculty and are offered a competitive salary and a faculty benefits package at Kennedy Krieger Institute, and a faculty appointment at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.