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Andrea S. Young-Ryan

Andrea S. Young-Ryan, PhD

Johns Hopkins Affiliations:
  • Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Faculty

Languages

  • English

Gender

Female

About Andrea S. Young-Ryan

Primary Academic Title

Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Background

Andrea S. Young, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Young is also the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Assistant Dean for Graduate Biomedical Education. She earned her B.A. in psychology from Washington University in St. Louis and her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Duke University. Dr. Young completed her pre-doctoral internship at Virginia Treatment Center for Children, part of the Virginia Commonwealth University Health System, and her postdoctoral research fellowship in child and adolescent mood disorders at The Ohio State University. Through combined research and professional experiences as a licensed clinical psychologist, Dr. Young has expertise in clinical research, health disparities, treatment and diagnosis of childhood mood disorders, empirical strategies to characterize impulsive aggression in youth, and children’s services research.

Centers and Institutes

Office of Graduate Biomedical Education

Research Interests

Access to mental health care, mental health disparities

Research Summary

Dr. Young’s research, funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation, has focused on better understanding predictors and outcomes of children’s service use to inform policy and development of targeted interventions to improve overall access to quality services and children’s psychosocial outcomes. Dr. Young’s past research experiences have also included assessing the effects of nonpharmacologic interventions for childhood depression, bipolar disorder, and mood disorder comorbidities. Her current research focuses on how receipt of quality mental health services impacts long term outcomes (e.g., later substance use and mental illness/substance use comorbidities), racial and ethnic disparities in access to quality mental health services, and strategies to eliminate racial and ethnic disparities. 

Locations

  1. Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
    • 4940 Eastern Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21224

    Expertise

    Education

    Duke University

    Graduate School, PhD, 2012