Rate My Professor Beau Carubia

Beau A. Carubia, MD, serves as Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry-Child-CHC at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, Anschutz Medical Campus. He specializes in child and adolescent psychiatry. Carubia completed his B.S. in Exercise Science with a minor in Psychology at the University of Iowa in 2004 and earned his M.D. from the University of Colorado School of Medicine in 2008. He then pursued his General Psychiatry Residency from 2008 to 2011 and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship from 2011 to 2013 at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, where he served as Chief Resident in 2012-2013. Board certified in Psychiatry since 2012 and in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry since 2014, he began his academic career as Senior Instructor from 2013 to 2016, advanced to Assistant Professor in 2016, and was promoted to Associate Professor thereafter.

In clinical leadership, Carubia has been Medical Director of the Psychiatric Consultation and Liaison Service at Children’s Hospital Colorado from 2013 to 2018 and Medical Director of the Pediatric Mental Health Institute Consultative Division since 2018. He also acts as Associate Program Director for the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship since 2014 and Site Coordinator for Medical Student Education from 2014 to 2016. His research specializations encompass pediatric psychiatric emergencies, suicide prevention, telepsychiatry, behavioral health crisis services, and youth suicidality screening. Key publications include "Child Psychiatric Emergencies: Updates on Trends, Clinical Care, and Practice Challenges" (Current Psychiatry Reports, 2016), "Telepsychiatry Expansion of Inpatient Psychiatry Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic" (Hospital Pediatrics, 2025), "Crossing State Lines: Ethical and Clinical Considerations in Treating a Child With Catatonia" (Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2022), and a chapter on cannabis considerations in child consultation-liaison settings (2022). Awards and honors include Junior Faculty Research Poster Winner (University of Colorado Department of Psychiatry, 2011), Good Samaritan Award (2014), Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Residency Award for Outstanding Service (2015), 5280 Magazine Top Docs for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (2015-2019), and Children’s Hospital Colorado Provider of the Month (2016). Carubia contributes extensively through committee service, such as the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Emergency Psychiatry Committee, Colorado Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Society Executive Committee, and multiple Children’s Hospital Colorado committees on ethics, patient safety, restraints, and mental health strategy. He has presented invited lectures at national conferences, including the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry annual meetings, and provided legislative testimony for Colorado health bills.