Claudia Moreno, MD
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Claudia Moreno, MD, is a child psychiatrist focusing on the mental health needs of children and adolescents in emergency and inpatient medical settings.
Born and raised in Puerto Rico, Dr. Moreno identifies as Latina and is fully bilingual in English and Spanish. In her clinical practice at Yale New Haven Hospital Children’s Hospital, she treats various mental health conditions, including Major Depressive Disorder, Adjustment Disorders, Anxiety Disorders, Eating Disorders, Substance Induced Psychosis, Delirium and Catatonia. Dr. Moreno provides evidence-based therapeutic approaches, such as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), solution-focused brief therapy, as well as psychopharmacology. She is the medical director for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Consultation & Liaison Service at YNHCH, associate medical director for Intensive In-home Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Services (IICAPS) and consultant psychiatrist for ACCESS Mental Health, Child Study Center Hub.
Dr. Moreno's research explores mental health and pediatric care topics, such as wait times for mental health visits in pediatric emergency rooms and the increase in incidence of Eating Disorders requiring medical intervention after the 2020 Pandemic.
Dr. Moreno is an assistant professor of child psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine.