Dr. Doupnik’s research focuses on improving access to mental health services and health outcomes for children and adolescents. She holds a K23 award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) for work designed to integrate suicide prevention into acute hospital care. She has also conducted research to understand the influence of mental health conditions on health outcomes, including health services utilization, and to develop and test strategies for integrating mental health services into pediatric care.

Dr. Doupnik is also a practicing pediatric hospitalist and medical director of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Inpatient Medical Behavioral Unit.

Among her notable career achievements, Dr. Doupnik:

• Received a NIMH K23 Career Development Award in 2018
• Received the NIMH Child Intervention, Prevention, and Services Fellowship in 2017
• Serves as founding medical director of CHOP’s inpatient medical-behavioral unit in 2016
• Received the Academic Pediatric Association Young Investigator Award in 2015

BA, University of Virginia (Comparative Literature), 2007

MD, Drexel University College of Medicine, 2011

Fellowship, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (Academic General Pediatrics), 2016

MS, University of Pennsylvania (Health Policy Research), 2016

Attending Physician

Medical Director, Inpatient Medical Behavioral Unit

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

American Academy of Pediatrics, 2011-

Academic Pediatric Association, 2014-

Society for Pediatric Research, 2014-

Academy Health, 2015-

Young Investigator Award, Academic Pediatric Association, 2015

Child Intervention Prevention and Services Fellowship, National Institute of Mental Health, 2017

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