Psychiatry/Medication Management

Our major programs are the Children's and Adolescent Program, Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities, Outpatient Program and the Bradley School.

Children's and Adolescent outpatient services. A multidisciplinary staff of board-certified child and adolescent psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses and qualified trainees provides treatment using a variety of modalities including individual, group and family therapy, and psychopharmacologic management.

https://www.lifespan.org/centers-services/bradley-outpatient-services

Children's and Adolescent inpatient services for children ages 2 to 18 years who suffer from serious disorders and are in need of short-term stabilization assessment and treatment.

https://www.lifespan.org/centers-services/child-adolescent-inpatient-program-bradley-hospital 


The Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities CADD offers unique and highly specialized clinical services for children and adolescents between the ages of 2 and 18 who show signs of serious emotional and behavioral problems in addition to a developmental disability, such as autism, Asperger's or intellectual disability.  
https://www.lifespan.org/centers-services/center-autism-and-developmental-disabilities-cadd

The Intensive Program for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

https://www.lifespan.org/centers-services/intensive-program-obsessive-compulsive-disorder

Communication, Occupational and Sensory Treatment (COAST) Clinic offers comprehensive evaluation and treatment for children and adolescents who have difficulty participating in age-appropriate activities due to physical, neurological, cognitive, behavioral, communication or sensory processing challenges.

https://www.lifespan.org/centers-services/coast-clinic

Resources for Parents [https://www.bradleyhospital.org/resources-parents]

Parent's Guide to Mental Health https://www.bradleyhospital.org/sites/default/files/lifespan-files/documents/hospital-sites/bradley/bradl-servi-guide-55152-mentalhealthguide-web.pdf 

Bradley Hospital offers a wide range of programs, services and research for psychological, developmental and behavioral conditions in children and adolescents. Bradley Hospital is dedicated to patient- and family-centered mental health care. A Lifespan partner and a teaching hospital for The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Bradley Hospital has established itself as the national center for training and research in child and adolescent psychiatry.

Bradley School. Lifespan School Solutions, a subsidiary of Bradley Hospital, is the parent corporation of the Bradley Schools, a private, school-funded, educational program for children and adolescents whose psychiatric and behavioral needs cannot be met in a public school setting and are in a separate listing.

• Medical care (both inpatient and outpatient)
• Nutritional evaluation, counseling, and monitoring
• Mental health support, including inpatient psychiatric evaluation; inpatient and outpatient family/patient support; and education services

• Case management, including coordination of inpatient and outpatient services; communication with community providers, including therapists, psychiatrists, and primary medical doctors; and referrals to alternative levels of care, when indicated

The Eating Disorder Program at Hasbro Children’s Hospital provides multidisciplinary, family-centered care for children and adolescents with eating disorders. 

Our program includes comprehensive inpatient and outpatient medical, nutritional and mental health services to promote and maintain physical and mental well-being.

We work closely with the Medical Psychiatric Program at Hasbro Children's Hospital. Its Partial Hospital Program offers structured care during the school day for children and adolescents with medical and emotional issues, while its Inpatient Program provides more intensive inpatient psychiatric care for patients with medical problems.

Phone number for referrals and appointments: 401-444-4712

Additional office sites include
East Greenwich Specialty Clinic
1454 South County Trail
East Greenwich , RI 02818
and
East Providence Specialty Clinic
900 Warren Avenue
East Providence, RI 02914

The following Hasbro Children's divisions and programs now have additional clinics at the East Greenwich location:

• Cardiology
  401-444-4612

• Endocrinology
  401-444-5504

• Gastrointestinal Medicine
  401-444-8306

• Nephrology
  401-444-5672

• Psychiatry 
  401-444-4515

• Pulmonology
  401-444-6540

• Rehabilitation
  401-444-2050

• Treatment for Child and Adolescent
  Eating Disorders
  401-444-5980

For more information about appointments or referrals to any of the Hasbro Children’s Hospital Specialty Practices, call 401-444-5437 (KIDS).

For the convenience of our patients and their families, our integrated team of practitioners are available at specialty practices in communities in Rhode Island and nearby Massachusetts.

Our family-friendly clinical spaces offer easy access and free parking for all families, patients and visitors.

Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Psychiatry

Languages: Spanish
Also practices at other locations.

Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

Larry K. Brown, MD, is director of the division of child and adolescent psychiatry at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and academic director of Bradley Hospital and Hasbro Children’s Hospital’s  division of child and family psychiatry.

Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Psychiatry

Languages: Spanish

Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

Margaret Klitzke, DO, is a board-certified child and adolescent psychiatrist who has been in practice since 1989 and has worked across all settings of the Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities.

Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

Karyn Horowitz, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Bradley Hospital, and Director of Child Outpatient Psychiatry, Lifespan.

Dr. Horowitz received her medical degree from Yale University School of Medicine, where she graduated Alpha Omicron Alpha; she completed two years of internal medicine training at the University of Chicago Hospitals and both her adult psychiatry residency and child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at Columbia University. Dr. Horowitz is an associate professor (clinical) in the department of psychiatry and human behavior at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.

Family-Based Integrated Care for Children, Teens and Adults

Services

Areas of expertise include:

• Couples’ Therapy
• Family Therapy
• Eating Disorders
• Psychological Aspects of Pain Management
• Chronic Illness Coping
• Somatoform Illness

Dr. Rickerby provides comprehensive assessment and treatment for all ages of patients with a goal of empowering patients and their families in effectively managing psychological challenges and psychiatric illness. 

Modalities of care provided include psychotherapy focused on the individual, couple and/or family with or without coordinated psychiatric medication management.

A primary focus on medication management in coordination with other involved therapists is also a part of Dr Rickerby’s practice. 

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Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Psychiatry

Gerald Tarnoff, MD, is a child and adolescent psychiatrist in the Bradley children's outpatient clinic and the children's inpatient unit. Tarnoff is a clinical assistant professor of psychiatry and human behavior at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.

Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Psychiatry

Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

Brady Case, MD, is medical director of the Bradley Hospital Intensive Program for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). He is an assistant professor (research) of psychiatry and human behavior at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and of health services, policy, and practice at the Brown School of Public Health.

Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

Ornella Potter, MD is a board-certified pediatric psychiatrist and unit chief of the adolescent inpatient program at Bradley Hospital. She is a clinical assistant professor of psychiatry and human behavior at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.  

Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

Elizabeth A. Lowenhaupt, MD, FAAP, is currently the associate director of training for the combined triple board program in pediatrics, psychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry, and the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship at Rhode Island Hospital.

Dr. Lowenhaupt has conducted most of her clinical work within the child welfare and juvenile justice settings, currently serving as consulting medical and psychiatric director at the Rhode Island Training School, the state's only juvenile correctional facility under the direction of the RI Department of Children, Youth, and Families. She represents the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry on the board of the National Commission for Correctional Health Care, where she also serves as the chair of the Juvenile Health Committee.

Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Psychiatry

Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

Elizabeth Brannan, MD, is an attending psychiatrist in the Intensive Program for OCD at Bradley Hospital, and an assistant professor (clinician educator track) in the department of psychiatry and human behavior at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. She is the co-director of both the first-year medical student brain sciences course and the longitudinal third-year medical student integration seminar. She also supervises and lectures in the child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship program and Triple Board residency program.

Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

Anastasia (Stacey) Wermert, MD is an attending psychiatrist at Bradley Hospital’s Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities (CADD) inpatient unit.

Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Psychiatry
Specialist

Director, Lifespan Child Emergency Psychiatric Services

Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

Forensic Psychiatry
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Contact Hartselle & Associates link

Dr. Lee is the current Assistant Director of the Forensic Service at Eleanor Slater Hospital, where she conducts forensic evaluations including risk assessments and competency to stand trial evaluations. Additionally, she provides treatment for teenagers and adults who are incarcerated. As the Assistant Program Director for the Brown Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship, she teaches medical students, and psychiatrists in training. Dr. Lee treats all disorders with a particular interest in anxiety and depression.

Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Psychiatry

Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Psychiatry

Also practices at other locations.

Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Psychiatry
Forensic psychiatric evaluations

Jamison Rogers, MD, is a psychiatrist at Rhode Island Hospital and training director of the Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship at Brown University. Dr. Rogers is a clinical assistant professor in the department of psychiatry and human behavior at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.

Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

Assoc. Medical Director & Medical Director of Children's Services at Gateway Healthcare

Languages: Hebrew (modern or new)
Also practices at other locations.

Gateway Healthcare

Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Psychiatry

Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

Daniel Moreno De Luca, MD, MSc, is a child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist at the Bradley Verrecchia Clinic for Children with Autism and Developmental Disabilities, where he also provides genetic psychiatry consultation to people with autism spectrum disorder, or neuropsychiatric conditions arising from a clinically-identifiable genetic cause. He is an assistant professor at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, and performs research on the genetics of autism with a focus on precision medicine.

Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Psychiatry

Jason Rafferty, MD, MPH, EdM, a pediatrician and child psychiatrist, practices at the gender and sexuality clinic and at the Adolescent Healthcare Center at Hasbro Children’s Hospital. Dr. Rafferty specializes in substance abuse disorders and gender and sexual development, and his work on these subjects has been published in many peer-reviewed journals. He is a member of the Society of Adolescent Health and Medicine, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Psychiatry

Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Psychiatry

Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program

• Adult, Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
• Psychiatric Evaluations
• Neuropsychological Testing
• Medication Management
• Individual &  Couples' Therapy
• Consultations
• Counseling
• Stress Management

We are a full-service mental health practice of dedicated, experienced psychiatrists, psychologists, therapists, and social workers who believe in working with our patients to maintain and improve their health. We work together to serve your entire family for all of your mental wellness needs in all stages of life. Our physicians believe in providing comprehensive health care services to our patients in a friendly, relaxed atmosphere. We are also committed to educating our patients as we work with them to achieve the best physical and mental state possible. 

Additional information on Child & Family Psychiatry link

Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist

Justin Schleifer, MD, is a child and adolescent psychiatrist in outpatient services and the CRAFT program at Bradley Hospital. Dr. Schleifer is also an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry and human behavior at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.

Child & Adolescent psychiatry

Daisy Bassen, M.D. is a board-certified Child & Adolescent psychiatrist.

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

multiple locations

Psychiatry
Child Psychiatry

Multiple office locations

Child and Adolescent Services
Medication Management
Adults​
Medication Management

We treat all children, adolescents, adults and families impacted by:
Developmental Disabilities
ADHD/ADD
Anxiety
Depression
Bipolar Disorder
Panic Disorder
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Oppositionally Defiant Disorder
Adjustment Disorder
Bereavement
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Autism Spectrum Disorders
Mood Disorders

Ryan Baxter, board certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner

Fax number is 401-267-4534

• Complete Psychiatric Evaluations
• Psychotropic Medication Management
• Bariatric Surgery Psychiatric Evaluations
• Individual Therapy
• Couples Therapy
• Family Therapy
• Stress Management
• Conflict Resolution
• Forensic Psychiatric Services  (contact us for more information)

Dr. Solberg’s areas of expertise include adolescent mental health and community mental health. She also does forensic psychiatric evaluations and expert witness testimony.

She currently provides medication management for adolescents and adults with depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety and panic disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, attention deficit disorder, schizophrenia and obsessive compulsive disorder as well as other neuropsychiatric conditions.

Dr. Solberg is known for her empathetic and caring demeanor, working with patients of all backgrounds to help them achieve their treatment goals.