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Mental Health
University of IowaStead Family Children’s Hospital provides a full range of mental health services to children and adolescents. Our mental health staff members offer services ranging from outpatient care to acute inpatient treatment. Services include medication management, educational consultation and testing, psychological testing, individual therapy, and family counseling.
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Our Services
Our team includes psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, therapists, nurses, and educators dedicated to helping our patients achieve and maintain good mental health as they and their families move their lives forward.
At UI Stead Family Children's Hospital a team of autism experts from a variety of disciplines works with patients and families to diagnose and treat the disorder and to address the many aspects of life touched by autism spectrum disorders (ASD).
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The Center for Disabilities and Development at University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital is dedicated to improving the health and independence of people with disabilities and creating a life with opportunities for everyone.
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Learning Disorders Developmental Concerns Behavioral Concerns Attention Concerns Motor Difficulties
The Pediatric Sleep Clinic at University of Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital provides assessment and treatment for infants, children, and young adults who have sleep disorders.
Tics can be motor (sudden, rapid movements of the hands or legs) or tics can be vocal (frequent throat clearing or grunting). Motor tics and vocal tics can occur separately or at the same time.
Our Care Team
Amy L. Conrad PhD
- Department of Pediatrics
- Psychiatry
- Psychology
Jamie L. Elizalde PhD, NCSP
- Psychology
- Psychiatry
4.82 out of 5 (43 ratings)
Laura L. Fuller PhD, ABPP
- Psychiatry
- Psychology
4.48 out of 5 (38 ratings)
Joyce Goins-Fernandez PhD, HSPP
- Department of Pediatrics
- Psychology
Amanda Grafft PhD, LP, HSP
- Cancer and Blood Disease
- Department of Pediatrics
- Psychology
4.81 out of 5 (58 ratings)
Jacqueline Klossing PhD
- Center for Disabilities and Development
- Psychiatry
- Psychology
Matthew O'Brien PhD, BCBA-D
- Center for Disabilities and Development
- Psychiatry
- Psychology
4.74 out of 5 (72 ratings)
Erin Olufs PhD
- Psychiatry
- Psychology
4.70 out of 5 (86 ratings)
Jenna Paternostro PhD
- Department of Pediatrics
- Psychology
4.90 out of 5 (109 ratings)
Meaghan Peters PsyD, HSP
- Center for Disabilities and Development
- Psychiatry
- Psychology
4.62 out of 5 (64 ratings)
Jillian R. Reiher PhD
- Center for Disabilities and Development
- Psychiatry
- Psychology
4.77 out of 5 (66 ratings)
Kelly M. Schieltz PhD, BCBA-D
- Department of Pediatrics
- Psychiatry
- Psychology
Angela L. Smith PsyD
- Center for Disabilities and Development
- Psychology
4.48 out of 5 (132 ratings)
Beth Troutman PhD, ABPP
- Psychiatry
- Psychology
Katrina S. Welsh PhD
- Psychiatry
Tammy Wilgenbusch PhD
- Department of Pediatrics
- Psychiatry
- Psychology
4.75 out of 5 (70 ratings)
Allan Andersen MD
- Psychiatry
4.91 out of 5 (110 ratings)
Ashmita Banerjee MD
- Psychiatry
4.51 out of 5 (58 ratings)
James H. Beeghly MD
- Psychiatry
4.63 out of 5 (57 ratings)
Nancy Beyer MD
- Department of Pediatrics
- Psychiatry
4.75 out of 5 (110 ratings)
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Kristin E. Buroker Marsh MD
- Department of Pediatrics
- Psychiatry
4.72 out of 5 (162 ratings)
Emira Deumic Shultz MD
- Psychiatry
4.71 out of 5 (80 ratings)
Amanda C. Elliott DO
- Psychiatry
4.83 out of 5 (55 ratings)
Carissa B. Gunderson MD
- Psychiatry
4.90 out of 5 (206 ratings)
Aaron J. Kauer MD
- Psychiatry
4.61 out of 5 (150 ratings)
Samuel Kuperman MD
- Department of Pediatrics
- Psychiatry
4.73 out of 5 (33 ratings)
Priya Larson MD
- Psychiatry
4.63 out of 5 (101 ratings)
Hanna E. Stevens MD, PhD, DFAACAP
- Psychiatry
Kaley Boress PhD
- Psychiatry
- Psychology
4.75 out of 5 (53 ratings)
Patricia Espe-Pfeifer PhD
- Department of Pediatrics
- Psychiatry
- Psychology
4.85 out of 5 (39 ratings)
Thomas Wassink MD
- Department of Pediatrics
- Psychiatry
Anureet Walia MD
- Psychiatry
4.52 out of 5 (430 ratings)
Jessie Alex ARNP, DNP
- Cancer and Blood Disease
- Department of Pediatrics
- Psychiatry
- Psychology
4.72 out of 5 (85 ratings)
Natasha Clark ARNP, DNP
- Psychiatry
4.68 out of 5 (99 ratings)
Kristin Foster ARNP
- Cancer and Blood Disease
- Department of Pediatrics
- Psychiatry
- Psychology
- Neurology
4.88 out of 5 (93 ratings)
Adrienne Jensen ARNP, MSN, PMHNP-BC
- Psychiatry
Melanie Rock ARNP
- Psychiatry
- Psychology
4.75 out of 5 (68 ratings)
Emily M. Schultz DNP, ARNP
- Psychiatry
4.61 out of 5 (36 ratings)
Kathleen Wild MSN, PMHNP-BC
- Psychiatry
- Psychology
4.87 out of 5 (299 ratings)
Shelly Hsiao PA-C
- Psychiatry
4.81 out of 5 (401 ratings)
Amy Runkle LISW
- Psychiatry
- Psychology
Danielle Sparks MSW, LISW
- Psychiatry
Blake Stephenson LISW, BCBA
- Psychiatry
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