Dr. Ellen Lipman is a Child Psychiatrist and Professor in the Division of Child Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University. She is currently Chief of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at McMaster Children’s Hospital, Associate Chair Education in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University and a core member of the Offord Centre for Child Studies. Her clinical work includes consultation to outpatient services at the Child and Youth Mental Health Program, McMaster Children's Hospital. Dr. Lipman’s main research interests are in the areas of disadvantaged children and families, effectiveness studies, child and adolescent psychiatry, epidemiology, and integrating clinical and research work.
Dr. Evan Weizenberg has a special interest in education and leadership. He is currently the interim medical director of acute care mental health services at McMaster, Child Psychiatry Rotation Coordinator and member of the Postgraduate Education Committee, Family Therapy Module Coordinator, member of the Child Subspecialty Residency Program Committee, and joint DPR Mental Health Advisory Group Committee. He is involved in the core teaching curriculum and psychopharmacology seminars for PGY3 and subspecialty psychiatry residents. He has been a member of the Consultant Liaison Psychiatry Service at McMaster Children’s Hospital since becoming a faculty member in 2016.
Dr. Khrista Boylan has been a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist at MCH since 2004. In her early career, she completed a PhD in Health Research Methodology studying the overlap between irritability and oppositional behavior in youth. She conducts clinical and lab based research about social and biological processes contributing to adolescent emotion dysregulation and borderline personality disorder. Along with Dr Lipman and Eltorki, she leads the McMaster site of the I AM SAFE suicide prevention study, where we test an intervention promoting communication and family-based risk management of self harm after an ED presentation. Currently she is the Medical Director of Psychiatric Ambulatory Services at MCH and co-leads the Brief Intervention Service which she will discuss today.
Laurie Horricks began her nursing career in 1996 as an emergency department nurse in Beaumont Texas. She dedicated 10 years of clinical practice to SickKids in the ER, the Adolescent Medicine Service and the Suspected Child Abuse and Neglect Program prior to coming to McMaster Children’s Hospital in 2009, as a Clinical Nurse Specialist with the 3G Child and Youth Mental Health Inpatient unit. In 2015, she completed her Post Master’s Nurse Practitioner certification and is now an NP with the Psychiatry Consultation Liaison Service. Laurie has led a variety of initiatives at MCH and is passionate about improving our collective and systemic ability to address and meet the emotional and mental health needs of patients admitted across the system
In this week's core session of Grand Rounds, they present an overview of the services in the Child and Youth Mental Health Program at McMaster Children’s Hospital, and provide detailed information on two new/expanded services, the Brief Intervention Service and the Consultation-Liaison Service.