Sarah Edwards, DO

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. Recent publications include “Telemental Health in Schools” in the Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology and “Supporting the Transition from Inpatient Hospitalization to School” in Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America.