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Claudia Moreno, MD

Assistant Professor of Child Psychiatry
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Medical Director for Psychiatric Emergencies Children's Hospital ED, YNHH

Medical Director for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Consultation & Liaison Service, YNHH Children's Hospital

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Assistant Professor of Child Psychiatry

Medical Director for Psychiatric Emergencies Children's Hospital ED, YNHH; Medical Director for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Consultation & Liaison Service, YNHH Children's Hospital

Biography

Dr. Claudia Moreno earned her medical degree at the University of Puerto Rico. She started her post-graduate career in general surgery before transitioning to psychiatry. She completed a general psychiatry residency at the University of Florida, and a child & adolescent psychiatry fellowship at the Yale Child Study Center. After completing her training she served as an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at University of Florida before coming to the Yale Child Study Center.

Dr. Moreno currently serves at the Medical Director of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry and Psychiatric Emergencies Services at YNHH Children’s Hospital. She is a member of ACCESS-Mental, which provides psychiatric consultation to pediatricians, primary care providers and nurse practitioners in the community. In addition, she is one of the Medical Directors of Yale Intensive In-Home Child & Adolescent Psychiatric Services (IICAPS). Dr. Moreno balances her clinical and administrative responsibilities with teaching as she provides supervision and lectures to medical students, residents, fellows, nurses, and social workers. She is fluent in both Spanish and English and strives to further her understanding of cultural differences and how these affect delivery of care.

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University of Puerto Rico (2004)

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2022

2021

2011

2007

Clinical Care

Overview

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.

Clinical Specialties

Psychiatry; Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

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Child Study Center

Yale University- Child Study Center, 230 S Frontage Rd

New Haven, CT 06520

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  • Neison Irving Harris Building

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    230 South Frontage Road

    New Haven, CT 06519

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