TUCSON, Ariz. –
John Leipsic, MD, has joined the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson as an assistant professor of child and adolescent psychiatry.
He has been appointed the new director of the pediatric psychiatry consultation and liaison service at The University of Arizona Medical Center – Diamond Children’s. He also is on staff at the Crisis Response Center's child and adolescent crisis evaluation and stabilization unit at The University of Arizona Medical Center – South Campus.
Dr. Leipsic earned a bachelor’s degree in neurobiology from the University of California, Berkeley. He completed medical school at the Medical College of Virginia and his internship at Tufts University. In 1992, he completed his residency in adult psychiatry at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Boston. Dr. Leipsic then completed a fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of California, Davis, in 1994.
Dr. Leipsic was in private practice in Sonoma County, Calif., for 15 years before joining the UA College of Medicine faculty.
Dr. Leipsic takes a direct and practical approach to pediatric psychiatry consultation and liaison. When a mental health issue or question on a patient in the emergency room, PICU or pediatric floors arises, the pediatric psychiatry consult service can be there from the point of admission to help clarify diagnosis, developmental and family impacts of illness, treatment recommendations and follow-up.
Dr. Leipsic plans to develop a child psychiatry clinic at The University of Arizona Medical Center – University Campus, seeing patients with anxiety disorders and mood disorders. He has a specialty interest in Tourette’s disorder.
He is board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.
