The Yale Child Study Center and Yale Department of Psychiatry are engaged in a joint venture in residency training. The Integrated Child, Adolescent, and Adult Residency Program began training residents in July, 2004 and continues to grow as it accepts two trainees a year who have a strong interest in developmentally-focused mental health and intend to follow an academic career trajectory.
Naomi Libby, M.D. grew up in the suburbs of Boston, graduating from Brandeis University with a B.S. in Neuroscience. [Read more] During her undergraduate years, she participated in research utilizing visual evoked potentials to study visual processing in infants. Following graduation, Naomi spent two years working with Alvaro Pascual-Leone, M.D., Ph.D. at Harvard Medical School, using functional MRI (fMRI) and transcranial magnetic stimulation to investigate visual cortical plasticity in adults. She subsequently enrolled in a five-year scholarship program providing clinical research training in addition to an M.D. at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Naomi had the pleasure of pursuing a long-time interest of hers when she joined the lab of Kevin Pelphrey, Ph.D at the Yale Child Study Center, where she did a Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellowship for Medical Students. There, she conducted fMRI studies of social cognition in autism spectrum disorders (ASD), focusing on the neural correlates of emotion regulation in children with ASD relative to their typically developing peers. In addition to her continued interest in autism, Naomi’s clinical psychiatry experiences in medical school fostered an emerging dedication to the interface of maternal and child mental health. Upon graduation from medical school, she was awarded the Bert and Sally O’Malley Award for Medical Student Research, the Richard L. Cohen, MD Award for Excellence in Child Psychiatry, and the Jeffrey Alan Gray Memorial Prize for Compassion and Humanism. Naomi is very excited for the opportunity to pursue her combined research and clinical training at Yale. In her spare time, she enjoys yoga and jogging, reading fiction, and spending quality time with her family.
Hannah Reed, M.D. grew up in Nashville, TN and left for college at Washington University in St. Louis planning to major in architecture and psychology. After spending time as an ABA therapist for children with autism spectrum disorders, she became passionate about developmental neuroscience and decided to instead pursue a research career. At Wash U, she worked with Dr. John Constantino studying the developmental trajectory and heritability of autistic traits in the general population. She also founded the Night Off program which provides respite care to families of children with autism. She graduated with honors with a major in psychology and minors in neuroscience and philosophy and received the Hyman Meltzer Memorial Award for Undergraduate Research in Psychology. Still motivated by her desire to better help children with autism, Hannah moved to Baltimore to complete the post-bac premedical program at Johns Hopkins. There she also worked as a research assistant under Dr. Marco Grados examining the genetic correlates of autistic traits in OCD. While applying to medical school, she moved back to Nashville and worked at Vanderbilt with Dr. Beth Malow studying the relationship between autism spectrum disorders and sleep behaviors. Hannah then moved to Memphis for medical school at the University of Tennessee where she was involved in multiple local and international projects for children’s healthcare. As she debated between psychiatry and pediatrics for residency, she was thrilled to find the Solnit Integrated program at Yale. Hannah continues to be invested in developmental disorders and hopes to concentrate on the neurodevelopment and genetics of autism during her residency. In her free time, Hannah enjoys volunteering, going out with friends, traveling, cooking, trying new wines, pilates, photography, decorating, antique shopping, and occasionally getting back to her love of art and residential design.