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Pediatrics - Assistant Professor
Psychiatry - Adjunct Assistant Professor

Primary Children's Hospital
100 N Mario Capecchi Drive
Salt Lake City, UT 84113
contact address
https://healthcare.utah.edu/fad/mddetail.php?physicianID=u0492464&name=...

Biosketch:

Brooks Keeshin, M.D., is a clinician researcher in the Division of Child Protection and Family Health at the University of Utah and Safe and Healthy Families at Primary Children’s Hospital. Dr. Keeshin is a child abuse pediatrician and child psychiatrist. Dr. Keeshin completed medical school at the University of Cincinnati, residency in pediatrics, general and child psychiatry at the University of Utah and fellowship training in child abuse pediatrics at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. Dr. Keeshin is certified in Pediatrics and Child Abuse Pediatrics by the American Board of Pediatrics, and certified in General as well as Child and Adolescent Psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.

Dr. Keeshin provides inpatient and outpatient child abuse pediatrics consultation at Primary Children’s Hospital as well as outpatient psychiatric services for children and families with a history of abuse or trauma.

Dr. Keeshin’s research interests include (1) acute and long term neurobiological changes associated with exposure to child maltreatment and (2) early clinical interventions to decrease the risk of PTSD and other psychological distress among children exposed to maltreatment and violence. Dr. Keeshin has received research support from the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and was a Doris Duke Fellow for the Promotion of Child Well-Being.

He currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Academy on Violence and Abuse and is a member of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Committee on Child Maltreatment and Violence.

No conflicts of interest (02/16/2022)

Selected Bibliography:

Docherty AR, Bakian AV, DiBlasi E, Shabalin AA, Chen D, Keeshin B, Monson E, Christensen ED, Li Q, Gray D, Coon H.
Suicide and Psychosis: Results From a Population-Based Cohort of Suicide Death (N = 4380).
Schizophr Bull. 2021. PubMed abstract

Docherty A, Kious B, Brown T, Francis L, Stark L, Keeshin B, Botkin J, DiBlasi E, Gray D, Coon H.
Ethical concerns relating to genetic risk scores for suicide.
Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet. 2021. PubMed abstract

Keeshin BR, Bryant BJ, Gargaro ER.
Emotional Dysregulation: A Trauma-Informed Approach.
Child Adolesc Psychiatr Clin N Am. 2021;30(2):375-387. PubMed abstract

Keeshin B, Byrne K, Thorn B, Shepard L.
Screening for Trauma in Pediatric Primary Care.
Curr Psychiatry Rep. 2020;22(11):60. PubMed abstract / Full Text

Keeshin B, Forkey HC, Fouras G, MacMillan HL.
Children Exposed to Maltreatment: Assessment and the Role of Psychotropic Medication.
Pediatrics. 2020. PubMed abstract
A clinical report that focuses on 2 key issues necessary for the care of maltreated children and adolescents in pediatric settings: trauma-informed assessments and the role of pharmacotherapy in maltreated children and adolescents.