Ruby Lekwauwa, MD

Dr. Lekwauwa completed her adult psychiatry residency at Yale in 2015, followed by her child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at the Yale Child Study Center in 2017. After training, she spent considerable time providing clinical care to children, teens, and their families in CT as well as leadership to clinical teams within a variety of settings. She is currently the medical director for the YNHH Adolescent Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) where she also manages and coordinates the one-month child and adolescent psychiatry ambulatory rotation in the PGY1 year. She has published in the areas of trauma and religion/spirituality and has specific clinical interests in culturally responsive engagement with marginalized and high-risk patient populations. She is actively involved in clinical supervision and mentoring of residents.