Dr. Lisa Karabelnik, MD

Lisa Karabelnik, MD is a board certified Child Psychiatrist and Adolescent Psychiatrist. She is also board certified in Adult Psychiatry. Her practice focuses on patients under 18 but she does follow patients through college and also sees a small population of adults. She completed an accelerated 6 year medical program which included graduating from Lehigh University in 1992 and then from the Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1994. Dr. Karabelnik completed a triple board residency training program at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York which included training in Pediatrics, Adult Psychiatry, and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Upon completion of her training, Dr. Karabelnik moved to Connecticut and took a position at Hartford Hospital and the Institute of Living. During her 7 years there, she worked in many capacities. These included the hospital based outpatient practice and many on and off campus programs. Included in the campus programs was the Partial/Intensive Outpatient Hospital program that both enabled children to return home following an inpatient psychiatric admission or for children trying to prevent an inpatient admission. Dr. Karabelnik was also part of the Consult Liaison team at the Connecticut Children's Medical Center which provided assistance for children who were admitted to a medical service but were struggling whether due to their medical condition, an eating disorder, or other cause.. Dr. Karabelnik was also the consulting psychiatrist to the Emergency Department at CCMC. Additionally, Dr. Karabelnik was the psychiatrist for the Grace S. Webb Middle School, a therapeutic day school for children whose needs could not be met by their public schools. Dr. Karabelnik also supervised Child Psychiatry residents and other mental health professionals and APRN's in the community based clinic. The off campus programs included supervising the clinicians of the Emergency Mobile Crisis Program. Finally, she also played an integral role in educating the adult and child psychiatry residents at both the UCONN and Institute of Living Residency Programs. This included holding the positn as one of the Site Directors of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Training program at Hartford Hospital and the Institute of Living. During her time in Hartford, Dr. Karabelnik also participated in the Connecticut Council for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, the Connecticut branch of the national organization for Child Psychiatry, the American Academy of Chi

• Residency
• Mount Sinai Medical Center

• Medical School, 1994
• Medical College of Pennsylvania
• Philadelphia, PA