Update Your ProfileAcademic Title:
Associate Professor
Primary Appointment:
Psychiatry
Secondary Appointment(s):
Pediatrics
Administrative Title:
Division Director
Additional Title:
Medical Director, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Services Program Director, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship
Location:
Baltimore, MD 21201
Phone (Primary):
410-328-3522
Fax:
410-328-0202
Education and Training
- Northwestern University, BA, Psychology, 1995
- Midwestern University, DO, 2005
- University of Maryland/Sheppard Pratt, General Psychiatry Residency, 2005-2008
- University of Maryland Medical Center, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship, 2008-2010
Biosketch
Dr. Edwards is a Board-Certified Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist with specialized expertise in early childhood mental health and treatment of complex pediatric trauma-related disorders. She is the Medical Director of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Clinical service line at University of Maryland School of Medicine, which includes child inpatient, partial hospitalization, pediatric consultation-liaison, and outpatient sub-specialty services. Dr. Edwards is also the Training Director of the University of Maryland Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship. Through these roles, she has extensive clinical experience in the assessment and treatment of pediatric mental health conditions, and provides training to medical students, adult psychiatry residents, child psychiatry fellows, and allied health professionals on normal child development and child and family interview techniques.
Dr. Edwards has presented at national conferences and co-authored manuscripts on a variety of topics including teaching methods in graduate medical education; use of telepsychiatry in school mental health; and use of an interprofessional model to screen and treat hospitalized youth with delirium. Her research interests involve integrated pediatric care, interprofessional training, pediatric delirium, and youth suicide screening and prevention.
Research/Clinical Keywords
Early childhood mental health, infant mental health, integrated pediatric care, delirium, interprofessional education and collaboration, training, teaching residents and fellows, trauma, telepsychiatry, evidence-based therapies.
Highlighted Publications
Simone, S., Edwards, S., Lardieri, A., Walker, L. K., Graciano, A. L., Kishk, O. A., & Custer, J. W. (2017). Implementation of an ICU Bundle: An Interprofessional Quality Improvement Project to Enhance Delirium Management and Monitor Delirium Prevalence in a Single PICU. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, 18(6), 531-540.
Reeves, G., Wehring, H., Edwards, S., & dos Reis,, S. (2017). Partnership with consumers to improve research dissemination. Medical Research Archives, 5(4). Retrieved from http://www.journals.ke-i.org/index.php/mra/article/view/1142
Stephan, SA., Lever, N., Bernstein, L., Edwards, S., Pruitt, D., (2016) Telemental Health in Schools. Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology, 26: 1-7.
Edwards, S., Reeves, G. M., & Fishbein, D. (2015). Integrative model of the relationship between sleep problems and risk for youth substance use. Current Addiction Reports, 2(2), 130-140.
Weiss, C. L., Blizzard, A. M., Vaughan, C., Sydnor-Diggs, T., Edwards, S., & Stephan, S. H. (2015). Supporting the Transition from Inpatient Hospitalization to School. Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 24(2):371-83.