 | Dr. Joseph Woolston |
Dr. Joseph L. Woolston, recently appointed as the Albert Solnit Professor of Child Psychiatry and Pediatrics, has played a major role in the development of programs designed to ensure that youngsters receive the psychiatric care they need.
Woolston has been chief of child psychiatry at the Yale Child Study Center since 2002 and medical director of the Child Psychiatric Services at Yale-New Haven Hospital since 1985. He founded the latter program, which has become an international model for evaluation of seriously disturbed children and their families, for the training of health professionals and for research on severe childhood psychopathology and innovative service delivery models.
In addition, Woolston is medical director of the Yale Intensive In-Home Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Service (IICAPS), which he co-founded in 1995 at the Child Study Center. The program seeks to reduce the need for restrictive placements and hospitalization for children with serious emotional disturbances by providing a variety of in-home services.
In 1998, the Yale physician helped develop the behavioral health supplement to Connecticut's implementation of HUSKY, the federal Children's Health Insurance Program, and he served for six years as medical and managing director of Yale's HUSKY Plus Behavioral program. He also helped to create a state-funded managed care program that delivers supplemental behavioral health services to underinsured children based on the IICAPS model.
Woolston's own research focuses on eating disorders in childhood and infancy, and he has written widely on that topic, as well as on issues ranging from parental influences to childhood schizophrenia to suicide.
A 1970 graduate of Yale College, Woolston earned his M.D. at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, interned at the UPenn-Presbyterian Medical Center and did his residency in psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine. He came to Yale in 1976 as a fellow in child psychiatry and was appointed an instructor the following year. He rose through the ranks, eventually becoming professor of child psychiatry and pediatrics in 2000. He also served as medical director of the Clifford Beers Guidance Clinic 1984-1985 and has been a research fellow at the Connecticut Center for Effective Practice since 2001.
Woolston has served on numerous task forces and committees on children's mental health services for the State of Connecticut and is currently an executive council member of its Mental Health Policy Council and the Connecticut Center for Effective Practice. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and last year received its Reiger Service Program Award for Excellence.
T H I S
Dr. Joseph Woolston is designated
the Albert Solnit Professor
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