Lidija Petrovic-Dovat MD is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Penn State Hershey College of Medicine, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Dr. Petrovic-Dovat completed her psychiatry residency at the UCLA San Fernando Valley Psychiatry Residency Training Program and Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship Program at the University of Wisconsin School Of Medicine. Before psychiatry residency, she did postdoctoral research fellowship at the Penn State Hershey College of Medicine, at the Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology.
As the Associate Director of Pediatric Behavioral Health Collaborative Care Program and the Director of Child and Adolescent Anxiety Disorder Program, she is actively involved in the clinical care of adolescents and children with chronic illness and assessment of children at the outpatient pediatric clinic as a part of the collaborative program we started in April of 2014. She is Board Certified in adult and child psychiatry. Dr Petrovic became interested in the co-morbid psychiatric/medical disorders as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Wisconsin where she worked with the Director of the Anxiety Disorder Program and mentor, whose area of research interest includes neurobiology of anxiety disorders. Since joining the faculty at Penn State Hershey, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry she developed the Child and Adolescent Anxiety Disorder program …show more content…
This project is embedded within the Departments of Psychiatry and Pediatrics’ efforts to establish a collaborative care model for child mental health issues across Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center.
She is actively involved in fellow education and research
As the Associate Director of Pediatric Behavioral Health Collaborative Care Program and the Director of Child and Adolescent Anxiety Disorder Program, she is actively involved in the clinical care of adolescents and children with chronic illness and assessment of children at the outpatient pediatric clinic as a part of the collaborative program we started in April of 2014. She is Board Certified in adult and child psychiatry. Dr Petrovic became interested in the co-morbid psychiatric/medical disorders as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Wisconsin where she worked with the Director of the Anxiety Disorder Program and mentor, whose area of research interest includes neurobiology of anxiety disorders. Since joining the faculty at Penn State Hershey, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry she developed the Child and Adolescent Anxiety Disorder program …show more content…
This project is embedded within the Departments of Psychiatry and Pediatrics’ efforts to establish a collaborative care model for child mental health issues across Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center.
She is actively involved in fellow education and research